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Hardening The Linux Kernel With Grsecurity (Debian)

Linux Today  Thu, 11/20/2008 - 04:03

HowtoForge: "Security is based on three characteristics: prevention, protection and detection. Grsecurity is a patch for Linux kernel that allows you to increase each of these points."


 

How To Install Intel Pro Wireless 3945 On CentOS Linux

Linux Today  Mon, 11/03/2008 - 17:33

HowtoForge: "In this tutorial, I will guide you through the necessary steps to install ipw3945 wireless adapter on a CentOS / RHEL based distribution.It is written for CentOS 5.2.

However, it might work on other CentOS 5.x based distributions as well."


 

Automatic And Up-To-Date Fedora 9 Installations With Kickstart A...

Linux Today  Fri, 10/31/2008 - 01:01

HowtoForge: "The problem with Kickstart is that it usually uses the distribution's packages from the time the distribution was released, i.e., it does not consider updates which means you would have to update each system manually after the Kickstart installation.

This guide explains how you can do up-to-date Kickstart installations with the help of a tool called novi."


 

Ultimate Security Proxy With Tor

Linux Today  Mon, 10/27/2008 - 20:32

HowtoForge: "Nowadays, within the growing web 2.0 environment you may want to have some anonymity, and use other IP addresses than your own IP.

Or, for some special purposes - a few IPs or more, frequently changed. So no one will be able to track you.

A solution exists, and it is called Tor Project, or simply tor."


 

Installing and Configuring Openfiler with DRBD and Heartbeat

Linux Today  Mon, 10/27/2008 - 16:03

HowtoForge: "Openfiler is a high performance operating system tailored for use as a SAN/NAS appliance. This configuration will enable two Openfiler appliances to work in an Active/Passive high availability scenario."


 

Convert YouTube Videos Into MP3s

Linux Today  Mon, 10/20/2008 - 17:32

HowtoForge: "I do have a few songs that are broken and that I can't get somewhere else and can't buy however they are on YouTube.

I know, quality is not the best on YouTube but for some stuff you have it might be better. Question is, how could I put those flash videos onto my music player?"


 

Drupal + Postfix Integration Under Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)

Linux Today  Sat, 10/18/2008 - 13:03

HowtoForge: "This document is derived from Christoph Haas' tutorial "Howto: ISP-style Email Server with Debian-Etch and Postfix" (http://workaround.org) and Falko Timme's tutorial "Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS)" (http://www.howtoforge.com).

The associated Mailfix Drupal module must be installed as part of this tutorial."


 

Kubuntu: How To Turn The Touchpad Off And On With One Shortcut K...

Linux Today  Mon, 09/29/2008 - 20:31

HowtoForge: "...but nothing worked in my Kubuntu environment for whatever reason...Therefore, facing all these 'downers' I set out to find another method using the code that did work in my system."


 

How To Build Red Hat Enterprise IPA RPMs For CentOS 5

Linux Today  Sat, 09/27/2008 - 18:58

HowtoForge: "FreeIPA has existed for some time as RHE IPA for Red Hat Linux and has been added into Fedora."


 

Spam Blocking And Web Filtering With The Untangle 5.3 Network Ga...

Linux Today  Thu, 09/04/2008 - 20:32

HowtoForge: "Untangle bundles common open-source applications for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network in one single Linux distribution."