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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 8 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, howtoforge, tips, tutorials .

Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 8 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion
on a Fedora 8 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics
card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion
you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube
on your desktop.

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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Ubuntu 7.10)

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, howtoforge, tips, tutorials .

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Ubuntu 7.10)

This document describes how to install a mail server based on
Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and
domains that are in a MySQL database. I’ll also demonstrate the
installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP),
so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database
Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I’ll show how to patch your Postfix appropriately). Passwords are stored in encrypted
form in the database (most documents I found were dealing with plain
text passwords which is a security risk). In addition to that, this
tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses.

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Installation Guide: Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna (a.k.a. The Perfect Desktop)

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, howtoforge, tips, tutorials .

Installation Guide: Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna (a.k.a. The Perfect Desktop)

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna)
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 4.0 is
a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 7.10 that has lots of packages in
its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader,
Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other
distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience
even for Linux newbies.

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Adding And Updating SpamAssassin Rulesets With RulesDuJour

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, howtoforge, tips, tutorials .

Adding And Updating SpamAssassin Rulesets With RulesDuJour

This article explains how you can download additional SpamAssassin
rulesets resp. automatically update these rulesets with a shell scripts
called RulesDuJour.
These additional rulesets can increase your spam recognition rate
dramatically. Most of the rulesets that RulesDuJour supports can be
found on the SA Rules Emporium web site.

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SAMBA (Domaincontroller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 7.10

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, howtoforge, tips, tutorials .

SAMBA (Domaincontroller) Server For Small Workgroups With Ubuntu 7.10

This is a detailed
description about setting up an Ubuntu based server
(Ubuntu 7.10) to act as file- and printserver for Windows(tm)
workstations in small workgroups. This howto uses the tdb backend for SAMBA
to store passwords and account information. This is suitable for workgroups
for up to 250 users and is easier to set up than an LDAP backend.

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Intrusion Detection: Snort, Base, MySQL, And Apache2 On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, howtoforge, tips, tutorials .

Intrusion Detection: Snort, Base, MySQL, and Apache2 On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure Snort
(an intrusion detection system (IDS)) from source, BASE (Basic Analysis
and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).
Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about
possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database
which BASE will use to display a graphical interface in a web browser.

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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 10.3 Desktop (ATI Mobility Radeon 9200)

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, howtoforge, tips, tutorials .

Enabling Compiz Fusion On An OpenSUSE GNOME 10.3 Desktop (ATI Mobility Radeon 9200)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion
on an OpenSUSE 10.3 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 here). With
Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a
desktop cube on your desktop.

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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Fedora 8)

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, howtoforge, tips, tutorials .

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Fedora 8)

This document describes how to install a mail server based on
Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and
domains that are in a MySQL database. I’ll also demonstrate the
installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP),
so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database
Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota (quota is not built into Postfix by default, I’ll show how to patch your Postfix appropriately). Passwords are stored in encrypted
form in the database (most documents I found were dealing with plain
text passwords which is a security risk). In addition to that, this
tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses.

Read more…

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How To Enable Multiple HTTPS Sites For One IP On Debian Etch Using TLS Extensions

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, tips, tutorials .

How To Enable Multiple HTTPS Sites For One IP On Debian Etch Using TLS Extensions

This how-to is Debian specific but could be ported to other
distributions since the concept is the same.
In order to use TLS Extensions we have to patch and recompile apache2
and recompile OpenSSL with the enable-tlsext directive.
Since TLS Extensions are relatively new, some internet browsers will
not work so the apache2 server will deliver just the default site as
http 1.0 does on an http 1.1 server.

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How To Upgrade An Ubuntu 7.04 Server ("The Perfect Setup" + ISPConfig) To Ubuntu 7.10

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in guides, how to, tips, tutorials .

How To Upgrade An Ubuntu 7.04 Server (“The Perfect Setup” + ISPConfig) To Ubuntu 7.10

This article explains how you can upgrade an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) server to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). I’m using an Ubuntu 7.04 server, set up according to The Perfect Setup – Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) and with ISPConfig installed, with web sites, email and ftp accounts, databases, DNS records, etc., and upgrade it to Ubuntu 7.10.

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