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HowTo: Identify Valid Login Shells
2008-01-17 15:47:00
Here's a quick tip on listing out and identifying all the shells available from a Fedora box.
This file is also responsible for keep a record of all available and valid login shells root can delegate to a particular system account. This file is also being consulted by other programs to determine...
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HowTo: Deny User from Logging Into Your System
2008-01-17 15:10:00
There are times when you need to prevent a particular bash-enabled user to login temporarily into your system, without completely deleting his account, here's an entry to do that.
This entry can be helpful for a situation wherein you need to temporarily prevent bash-enabled users from logging into...
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HowTo: Remove Tabs From Text Files Completely
2008-01-17 14:56:00
Here's how to remove tabs or tab characters completely from a file.
# cat testfile.txt
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a a a a
b b b b
c c c c
123 123 123
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HowTo: Convert Tabs In Each File To Spaces
2008-01-17 14:38:00
Converting tab characters to space characters can be done quite easily in linux. This task can be handy on removing tab characters in a file and convert them to specified space characters at the same time.
If you have just exported an article or data into a file with tab-columnized or...
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Spaces
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HowTo: Install and Say Cheese
2008-01-15 22:32:59
What is Cheese?
Cheese is a GNOME application designed to take photos and videos of you and your friends with your webcam, add special effects to them and share them with your friends and family. Cheese linux application was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaƫl Slinckx, and has most of the classical photo booth features after a bare ...
Cheese
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HowTo: Install HomeBank and Manage Personal & Financial Accounts
2008-01-15 22:32:21
If you are looking for an easy way to manage your personal accounts, finances, manual finances analysis, dirty does it financial graphs...then read on.
Introducing HomeBank
HomeBank is the free software you have always
wanted to manage your personal accounts at home. The main concept is to be light, simple and very easy to use. HomeBank brings you many features that allows you to analyze ...
Financial
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Personal
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HowTo: Install Mind-Mapping LabyRinth Tool
2008-01-15 22:30:13
Do you need a mind-mapping tool for linux? How about an abstract representation and map of ideas, analogies, symbols, plans and funny snappy things that comes in our mind from time to time to be drawn from a linux tool?
Introducing Labyringth
Labyrinth is a lightweight mind-mapping tool, written in Python using Gtk and Cairo to do the drawing. Labyrinth is intended to be as light, easy to ...
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Labyrinth
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HowTo: Install VMWare Server on Fedora 8
2008-01-15 12:05:06
Desktop virtualization has been continuously capturing users and web services. More and more companies are creating virtual machines and appliances that can be of productive service to many web users around the globe.
From recent post, here's a quick howto install VMWare Server on Fedora 8.
VMWare Server Pre-Requirements
VMWare Server package needs to compile its own needed VMWare kernel ...
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Server
Vmware
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HowTo: Install VMWare Workstation on Fedora 8
2008-01-14 19:59:31
Installing VMware Workstation software on Fedora 8 should not be a problem at all using Fedora rpm package installer. Considering an old post of installing VMWare on Fedora 7, I have encountered a strange installation issue and changes of installing VMWare workstations 6.02 on Fedora 8.
Here's how to install VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 on Fedora 8.
Pre-Requirements
First, check my version ...
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Vmware
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HowTo: Virtual PCLinux 2007 via VirtualBox over Fedora 8
2008-01-11 16:14:16
Five Easy Steps of Virtual PCLinux 2007 OS inside Fedora 8 via VirtualBox.
I was trying to get myself a less more busy with linux UML kernel compilation a couple of hours ago and, all of a sudden as an eye refresher, I simply went back into creating a simple blog entry on creating a virtual PCLinux 2007 machine inside my Fedora 8 using VirtualBox linux software. This got my linux interests of ...
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Virtual
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HowTo: Enable PortMap on Fedora 8
2008-01-10 14:58:44
Looking for portmap rpm package in Fedora 8?
How to recover and install portmap on Fedora 7 and Fedora 8?
Have you lost or uninstalled your portmap package on Fedora 7/8?
Does your NFS service handing due to deactivated portmap service?
Are you experiencing weird start up problems with your NFS?
What is Portmap?
Portmap is a security tool which prevents theft of NIS (YP), NFS and other ...
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HowTo: Linux Hardware Lister Tool - LsHw
2008-01-10 10:28:12
Listing hardware in linux can be done quite difficult specially for new linux users. There are many way on how one can obtain hardware list from his PC. Here's another alternative on listing out your hardware details from Fedora box.
Lshw is a linux tool for listing out hardware details from your PC. Using this hardware lister tool, it enables you to view the detailed specs of your PC, from ...
Howto
Linux
Tool
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HowTo: Install Bandwidth Shaper - Trickle on Fedora
2008-01-09 14:47:16
Shaping bandwidth traffic has been a usual part of job function from any IT company infrastructure providing online services to the web. From small scale company to enterprise scale, bandwidth shaping needs to be implemented and applied properly and effectively.
Here's one lightweight linux traffic shaper that makes use of existing network traffic shaping that is part of current linux kernel ...
Bandwidth
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HowTo: VnStat Long-Term Traffic Monitoring via CLI
2008-01-09 10:26:28
Another interface monitoring tool that logs and keeps track of past traffic usage and statistics is VnStat.
VnStat is a console-based long-term traffic monitoring utility that makes use monitors traffic usage and details and stores them into flat database for future comparison and statistical purpose. VnStat does not require root access and privilege to do its function.
vnStat is a ...
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Traffic
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HowTo: Install NetSpeed Traffic Monitoring Applet
2008-01-09 09:30:54
Now, if you want to monitor your network interface from GNOME X, here's another linux network interface usage and monitoring tool you can use and install.
Netspeed is a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic is currently passing thru on your specified network devices.
NetSpeed monitoring applet can show current network incoming and outgoing traffic from your selected interface. Since ...
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HowTo: Install IPTraff LAN Monitoring Tool
2008-01-09 09:13:52
IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility and IP LAN monitoring tool for Linux. IPTraf gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts.
IPTraf supports a wide variety of network statistics and IP protocols including TCP info, UDP counts, ICMP ...
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HowTo: Install Ibmonitor Interface Bandwidth Monitor
2008-01-09 08:56:00
If you wish to monitor bandwidth consumption of your host interfaces, here's another console-based linux bandwidth and network interface monitoring tool from linux.
ibmonitor is an interactive linux console application which shows bandwidth consumed and total data transferred on all interfaces.
ibmonitor main features are:
* Shows received, transmitted and total bandwidth of each ...
Bandwidth
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HowTo: Install IfTop Bandwidth Monitoring Tool
2008-01-09 08:44:13
Here's another bandwidth monitoring tool from linux console.
Iftop is another console-based bandwidth monitoring tool available from linux. Iftop offers more feature that can be quite useful on monitoring bandwidth from console terminal. When executed, this bandwidth monitoring tool displays source and destination hosts currently passing thru its current selected interface(s).
Iftop can ...
Bandwidth
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HowTo: Fedora WordPress Installation
2008-01-05 18:51:15
How to blog from your own desktop?
How to install WordPress?
Yes, you can start blogging from web hosting firms, but have you tried blogging from your own desktop using WordPress? If not, read on.
WordPress installation process is as easy as installing any other software in Fedora.
You could try to blog from your own desktop, test some themes and plugins faster, do some WordPress export and ...
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Installation
Wordpress
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Holiday Linux
2007-12-21 12:34:01
First of all, I want to thank you for visiting this linux blog! You might be visiting this blog due to some interesting linux blog entries or probably your visit here was referred by Google search results, either of the two, I welcome you then.
In behalf of my, myself and I, I personally wish you happy holidays to all.
May you all enjoy all the people and blessings life is bringing to us. ...
Holiday
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HowTo: Chikka messenger over GAIM Pidgin Messenger
2007-12-19 15:54:37
How to send FREE SMS using GAIM?
How to send FREE text messages using GAIM into Chikka Network?
How to setup Chikka account over GAIM pidgin messenger?
How to setup Google Chat/Talk to use Chikka SMS networks?
How to setup Jabber protocol to use Google Talk/Chat networks?
From an old post entry covering GAIM Pidgin installation, and from a separate blog entry of Chikka installation to Kopete ...
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Messenger
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HowTo: Rename Multiple Files Without A Script
2007-12-19 12:28:43
How to rename bulk or multiples files from X?
How to rename by inserting a string of characters into Nth column of selected multiple files?
How to rename multiple files into ascending/descending numerical manner from X?
How to rename multiple files by search and replace characters from multiple files and filenames?
How to rename multiple files by removing specific characters from multiple files? ...
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HowTo: KDocker/AllTray - System Tray Docking
2007-12-18 15:44:04
Don't you think it's cool to have those linux applications docked down into system tray? Freezing cool if this could be done by just a single point and click operation to docked down those linux apps into your docking board called system tray!
Very few apps have docking capabilities (e.g. Yahoo! and XMMS don't have any). Even if they do, sometimes they are specific to desktops (working on KDE ...
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System
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HowTo: Thunderbird - News/Feed Reader
2007-12-18 10:45:10
Though primarily developed to function as an email client, Thunderbird is also a great way to read and keep up with your feeds and aggregations. A major benefit from using Thunderbird as RSS feed reader client is its being offline mode of feeds viewing and reading (depending on the feed type). Thunderbird also features OPML import/export capability.
Here's an entry on how to setup your ...
Feed
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HowTo: ThinFeeder - RSS/RDF/Atom Aggregator
2007-12-18 09:51:15
Looking for Java based cross-platform feed aggregator?
Here's a quick entry for ThinFeeder aggregator.
ThinFeeder is an open source software that aims to provide a cross-platform, powerful and tiny RSS / Atom (currently RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0 / RDF, RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3) aggregator for desktop, using the Java development language. Thinfeeder needs Java to run and it eats only a small amount of your ...
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Rss
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HowTo: Sage - Firefox Feed Reader Extension
2007-12-18 09:24:33
Now, since Firefox browser offer many plugins and extensions, and does supports rss/rdf/news feed reader capabilities, here's another feed reader extension available for Mozilla Firefox.
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.
What does Sage do?
* Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds ...
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Feed
Firefox
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HowTo: Snownews - RSS/RDF Newsreader
2007-12-18 09:11:18
If you read news and feeds from console (CLI) or via text mode, here is another entry for text-based RSS/RDF news reader for linux.
Snownews is a text mode (console) RSS/RDF newsreader. Snownews supports all versions of RSS natively and supports other formats via plugins. Snownews depends on ncurses for the user interface and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. ncurses must be at least version 5.0. It ...
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Rss
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HowTo: Planet - RDF/RSS/Atom Feed Aggregator
2007-12-18 09:01:29
Another feed aggregator available from Linux world is Planet.
Planet is a flexible feed aggregator. Planet is an awesome 'river of news' feed reader available also in many linux distros. Originally developed from Debian OS. Planet downloads feeds and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed with the latest news first. Planet runs on a web server. This feed aggregator creates ...
Feed
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HowTo: Liferea - RSS/RDF Feed Reader
2007-12-18 08:50:58
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for Gtk/Gnome.
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a ...
Feed
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Rss
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HowTo: Blam - RSS/RDF Feed Reader
2007-12-18 08:41:44
There are a number of software list available for feed and news reader.
Here's one nice RSS/RDF feed reader tool you can install from your linux box.
Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to use and clean interface to stay up to date. Blam is currently being supported ...
Feed
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Rss
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