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Debian Networking Tutorial for Beginners and advanced users

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:05:57 -0800

This is detailed step step debian networking tutorial for Beginners and advanced users.This includes Configuring your network using GUI,Command line,using ifconfig with examples and troubleshooting your network tips.

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Simple Package management with Synaptic Package Manager

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:29:03 -0800

Synaptic is a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing software packages on Debian-based distributions. If you are using Debian or Ubuntu you will easily find Synaptic in the System Tools menu or in the Administration menu. Synaptic uses the GTK graphic libraries . So, if you are using GNOME on your debian-based distro you will probably have Synaptic installed as well. Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.

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Recover Data From a dead hard drive using ddrescue

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:53:17 -0800

Like dd, dd_rescue does copy data from one file or block device to another.dd_rescue is a tool to help you to save data from crashed partition. It tries to read and if it fails, it will go on with the next sectors where tools like dd will fail. If the copying process is interrupted by the user it is possible to continue at any position later. It can copy backwards.

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Remotely Manage Machines Using VNC

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:03:44 -0800

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing `desktop’ environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

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Install .rpm Files in Debian and Ubuntu

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:57:19 -0700

Some time you might find some applications are having only .rpm files but you want a .deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived ditributions.If you can’t find .deb debian package in any of the debian,ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter to install the .rpm file.

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Running Internet Explorer in Linux

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:56:42 -0700

No clicks needed. No boring setup processes. No Wine complications. Just one easy script and you’ll get three IE versions to test your Sites. And it’s free and open source.This may be very helpful for software developers and web developers to test their applications.

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Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Installation Walkthrough with Screenshots

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:02:54 -0700

Kubuntu is a user friendly operating system based on KDE, the K Desktop Environment. With a predictable 6 month release cycle and part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu is the GNU/Linux distribution for everyone.

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Debian Network Utilities and tools With Examples

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 01:01:19 -0700

This is the list of debian network utilities and tools for administrators and users to check the network related traffic, monitor network.This includes installation of each package with man pages.This full list devided in to two parts which is part1 network tools and part2 network tools

Debian etch beta 3 graphical mode installation with screenshots

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:19:37 -0700

Debian etch beta3 installation using graphical interface this is really nice installation walkthrough with each step
screenshots.This is new feature in debian upcoming release version called etch.This article contains nearly 50 images of this installation process.

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Opensource Bandwidth,Network and Servers Monitoring tools with Tutorials

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:48:40 -0700

This is very good tutorials for bandwidth monitoring,network monitoring and servers monitoring tools with clear step by step installation guides this includes Nagios,MRTG,RTG,Netmrg,Darkstat,monit,munin,mon,oreon,Saidar ,Cacti,Bigsister,ibmonitor,zabbix.This resouce is Very useful for Users and Administrators to monitor their networks,bandwidth and servers.

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ZABBIX monitoring System installation with screenshots

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:39:07 -0700

ZABBIX is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. ZABBIX uses a flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. ZABBIX offers excellent reporting and data visualisation features based on the stored data. This makes ZABBIX ideal for capacity planning.

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Nagios2.5 and Oreon 1.3 (Nagios web front end)installation with screenshots

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:38:30 -0700

Oreon© is an Open Source monitoring solution based on Nagios. It offers to this monitoring standard a new front end and brings it a panel of new functionalities.

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Easy SNMP Server and Client Configuration

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:10:39 -0700

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (eg. routers), computer equipment and even devices like UPSs. Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement SNMP v1, SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Secure Debian System Using FireHOL Firewall

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:09:58 -0700

FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.

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Hosting Multiple Websites or Namebased,IPbased Virtual hosts in Lighttpd

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:08:59 -0700

Most of the people want to know how to Host Multiple Websites or Namebased,IPbased Virtual hosts in Lighttpd.This contains name based and ip based virtual hosts with nice and easy examples.

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