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Continue reading...How to Check if Apache is Running Prefork or Worker
21. February 2010
For about the last week I’ve been trying to tweak the performance of a particular Apache server with varying degrees of success and failure. The biggest frustration is that I haven’t been able to find a way to determine which MPM mode Apache was running in: Prefork or Worker. Without that information I couldn’t tell [...]
Continue reading...Global, Mac-like Menubar on GNOME with gnome2-globalmenu
16. February 2009
Caught the introduction of this story over on OS News — apparently folks have been voting on the addition of a global, application-context sensitive menubar in Gnome for a while. The design of the bar is very similar to the way the global bar in Mac works. For those that don’t know, there is a [...]
Continue reading...FOG as a web-based Ghost Replacement
1. February 2009
Lets face it, some sectors just can’t move to Linux due to legacy application support, lack of personnel support, employee training, and especially due to the jump in vastly different user interfaces. Each company has their own incredibly (insert sarcasm) unique reason for holding back. So, what is left for the network admins to do [...]
Continue reading...Using Fail2Ban to prevent Brute Force Attacks
31. January 2009
Has your SOHO server been seeing a lot of failed ssh attempts from ipaddresses unknown to you? If so, you might be suffering from a brute force attack. These types of attack attempt to break into your box by trying to guess usernames and passwords. They are typically run on zombified computers from all [...]
Continue reading...Zero Install Allows Installs for Unpriviledged Users
20. January 2009
I recently ran across an interesting application that allows unprivileged users to install programs. While this maybe a good surface idea, the concept and coolness factor runs a little deeper.
The idea behind 0Install is to give the ’standard user’ install privileges without compromising a system if malicious software is installed. While this is cool [...]
AQEMU Frontend for QEMU
16. December 2008
Virtualization has always held a special place in my toolset because it allows me to make modifications to my environment without the headache of potentially breaking something. So, any improvements on this front tend to grab my attention.
Recently, I came across AQEMU a GUI frontend to QEMU. For those of you who may not know, [...]
Meld for Easy File Comparison / Diff-ing
9. December 2008
If you have ever needed to work with multiple version of a file, you’ve probably worked with diff. If you were ever wondering if there was a straightforward GUI compliment to diff, well, Meld might do the trick. At version 1.2.1 Meld offers many features like 3 way compare, directory compare, and a version [...]
Continue reading...Cryptkeeper for Encrypting User Files
8. December 2008
In this day and age, encryption has become the focus for securing sensitive data like bank account information, software licenses, or even social security numbers. If you have ever wanted to keep specific folders in your home directory encrypted in Linux there are a multitude of ways. Cryptkeeper and K-encfs come to mind. Both applications [...]
Continue reading...Programming a Simple Client/Server Application with Ruby
23. November 2008
Being able to add some sort of client/server model to your programs is pretty essential these days, and Ruby does a fine job making your life easier.
For this article, I’ll show you a quick, down-and-dirty way of getting a very simple server up and running and a client that will say “Hello Server World” and [...]
Floola as iPod Management Software
22. November 2008
Looking for that great iTunes replacement app to run on Linux? Have you ever heard of Floola? Offering most of the features of iTunes, Floola now gives Linux users the ability to copy Music, Photos, Movies, and even YouTube and MySpace videos to their treasured ipods.
For those whose music is encoded in ogg or FLAC, [...]
AjaXplorer: a Web-based File Manager
21. November 2008
AjaXplorer is quite a unique tool, and if you haven’t heard of it you might want to check out the latest 2.3.8 version. Essentially, AjaXplorer creates a web-based file manager using, you guessed it, Ajax. You can upload and view files, edit text files, create folders, and move or rename files and folders. [...]
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21. February 2010
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