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How to install boot and run Live Linux on a USB flash pen drive
By installing Live Linux on a memory stick, you can potentially bring your operating system, favorites, e-mail applications, personal settings and files with you. A USB Linux installation enables…
Ubuntu LAMP Server Installation With Screenshots
Automatic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) In about 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to…
Counter Strike Source and HL2 in Linux with Wine
For a lot of us, not being able to play our favorite Steam video games is a huge barrier that keeps us from switching over to a linux desktop. Linux-gamers has a great how-to on getting steam…
Gnome / KDE Keyboard Shortcuts
Tired of using your mouse so much? Did you know that both KDE and Gnome have keyboard shortcuts for just about everything you can do with a mouse? Here's a list of the various shortcuts on both…
Beryl and XGL on Ubuntu Linux with ATI card
An easy guide to install the new Beryl 3D desktop and Xgl on Ubuntu Dapper Linux. With screen shots. Even though Beryl is only v.0.1 I must say it seems pretty stable and works great on my laptop…
How to fix your nano when you failed to install iPod Linux
When I tried to install Linux on my iPod. I, like many others, screwed up my nano. Then I searched all over forums looking for a possible fix. I couldn't restore the Apple firmware because it…
Setup your Radeon-powered Ubuntu with XGL and Beryl
Linux users are spoiled for good these days with all the eye candy that has been invading on their desktop. This guide will help Ubuntu users with a Radeon-powered graphics card to set things up…
Brute Force Detection(BFD) on linux server
BFD is a modular shell script for parsing applicable logs and checking for authentication failures. There is not much complexity or detail to BFD yet and likewise it is very straight-forward in…
Using Lighttpd, Mplayer/Mencoder and Flvtool2 to Implement Flash Video Streaming
It will be really short post about using set of free tools to implement fully functional flash video streaming server. So, what we are going to get at the end of our setup? We are going to get…
Manage Linux Hardware with udev
In the olden days Linux administrators had a static /dev directory. It was inflexible and obese, containing 99% irrelevant entries, and we liked it that way. We didn't mind hassling with makedev…