http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-spunix_greattools/index.html
Ran across this while doing some research for a project. They run through wget, pwgen and a some other tools that will help you out in your daily unix task
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Overall since this is my second time around with Amahi I would definitely recommend it. It allows a ton of features that if you were to try and install yourself on a server would take time and more than likely be a pain.
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Installing most things on a debian based system is as easy as typing Apt-get. Webmin is not that way, almost it is not much more difficult.
First thing we need to do is prepare the system to install webmin. For that we need to install some dependencies.
sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
Next [...]
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I have been using my Xbox 360 as a media device lately. I’m running Linux on an older P4 machine running U-share. It allows me to stream media be it pictures, music, or videos to my Xbox in the other room. The problem is when I am doing things I am usually on my laptop [...]
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So in our earlier post we told you how to get cacti up and running now lets talk about setting up some host to get some use of it.
The first thing you will need to do is login to your cacti web gui.
Once you do you will see this screen.
Once at this screen click on [...]
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So you may be asking yourself, why in the world would I want to monitor my network printers with Cacti?
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Firefox was just updated to 3.5.5 only 8 days after version 3.5.4 the new version of the browser fixes three bugs: one critical bug across all platforms, and then one lower priority one for Windows and one lower priority one for Mac.
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The google Chrome blog reports that Bookmark syncing has now moved into the beta build from the dev release making it that much stable and close to production. You can get the Beta here As of right now it is only for Windows. Hopefully the code will slowly start to trickle into the Linux and [...]
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If you are use to MRTG then cacti will look familiar to you. Cacti and RRd tools is a bit of work to get setup and running but honestly the advantages outweigh the pain of setting it up, and hopefully with this tutorial setup will be simple.
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true-crypt-create-fileTrueCrypt is probably the easiest fastest way to get full strength encryption on an thumb drive, or even an entire hard drive.
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