Posted in "News"Ubuntu
firewall
This article was last updated on Saturday 25th of April 2020 @ 16:16 PM CEST
Source:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW
The default firewall configuration tool for Ubuntu is Ufw and stands for "Uncomplicated Firewall". It was developed to ease ip-tables firewall configuration, and provides a user friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall. Ubuntu already has a very good tutorial on how to use Ufw which your can...
Posted in "News"Ubuntu
mail
sendmail
This article was last updated on Saturday 25th of April 2020 @ 16:15 PM CEST
Source:http://www.sendmail.com/
Some Internet service providers (ISP) do not allow you to have a working mail server due to anti-spam policies, they block all outgoing traffic on port 25.
However, you can use the mail server of your ISP to send your mails. In this article I will describe how to set up sendmail...
Posted in "News"Ubuntu
NTP
time
synchronisation
This article was last updated on Saturday 25th of April 2020 @ 12:32 PM CEST
Posted in "News"MythTV
Kodi
TV-Headend
TV-Vlaanderen
Satellite
Mediacenter
I haven't posted anything for a year now because last year, 2012, has been quite a busy year, and still some busy times ahead though. But I thought it was really time to post something new, in particular a mix of old and new information about the media-center build. I'll try...
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Source:http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket
If you the owner of an iPhone, another type of smart-phone or even an iPad, it could come in handy to have them to act as a remote control for your MythTV installation based on Ubuntu (this works on MythBuntu too!). I was planning to write some sort of remote control...
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Posted in "News"Ubuntu
APC
UPS
battery
Source:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/apcupsd
This week I had to install an APC Back-UPS RS 800 UPS on a web server at my work. I never done this before so I had to take the APC and Ubuntu manual to do this. Since this type of UPS could be used on your home network or even...
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Source:http://ubuntu-art.org/
It is already widely known among Ubuntu users, but for those who are starting with Ubuntu, and then especially with the LTS (Long Term Support) release, here is how you can change the look and feel of your desktop by installing new themes. There is a wide distribution of many different...
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XP had it's power-toys, that made it possible for the user to quickly scale and rotate images. It's a handy tool for webmasters to reduce images before putting them online. Ubuntu has a tool which does exactly the same for you, it is called nautilus-image-converter.
Just right click one image or a...
Posted in "News"Ubuntu
DNS
bind
Source:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIND9ServerHowto
This article describes how to setup your own DNS server with bind 9 on Ubuntu 10.04. Domain Name Service (DNS) is an Internet service that maps IP addresses and fully qualified domain names (FQDN) to one another. In this way, DNS alleviates the need to remember IP addresses. Computers that run...
Posted in "News"Ubuntu
automate
taks
schedule
job
cronjob
crontab
Source:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto
Sometimes you need to automate certain tasks that come with administrating a working server. All Linux variants such as Ubuntu have a built-in scheduler named Crontab that can take care of scheduling various tasks for you.
1. How does it work?
Let us take an example to see how a task is built...
Posted in "News"Ubuntu
smb
cifs
samba
fileserver
Source:https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/samba-fileserver.html
Having a file server at home is very useful if you want share documents across multiple computers.
You can set-up multiple shares for music, films, documents... It could even be very useful if you login from multiple computers in your local network to centralise your home directory and those of other users...
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I have a M-Audio audiophile 2496 sound-card in my computer which worked fine in my Microsoft days, but ever since I'm on Ubuntu I was not able to get it to work. After lots and lots of reading and trying fixes i finally managed to get it to work! The main...
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Source:http://www.rdesktop.org/
You have many different ways to do this, the most known will be VNC I guess. But how do you connect to a Windows remote desktop from Linux without installing VNC server on the Windows computer? It can be accomplished by using "rdesktop". It's a remote desktop client like the one...
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This trick is already widely known among developers, but still I wanted to share my script with you all. The concept is simple, use PHP and GD-library to show a email address in a web-page as an image. This way spam bots aren't able to pick up the email address, they...
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A while ago I was asked at work for a possibility to pull a log file out of a PLC (Simatic Multi Panel) and be able to port it to Microsoft Excel or other programs. The purpose was to gather statistics and try to show a top 10 of the faults...
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Source:http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/
Sometimes we find useful tools when we aren't really searching for them and Radio Tray is definitely one of them! It's a web radio player which uses only a small portion of your desktop since it's running in the system tray next to the clock. It ables you to switch radio...
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Posted in "News"Quad
Quad 33
Quad FM3
Quad 405
Audio
Source:http://www.hi-fi-insight.com/quad-33-pre-amplifier.html
This week I've installed the Quad 33 Pre-amplifier and FM3 tuner together with the Quad 405 power amplifier in our bedroom. I inherited the pieces from my father some years ago and since these pieces form a real vintage, solid top class stereo system which sounds very natural, I decided to...
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About a year ago I decided to build my own mediacenter to reduce the pile of audio and video equipment next to our TV. Like most people we had a DVD player, tuner, amp, CD player, video player, satellite tuner, ... My goal was to be able to combine all of...
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