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How to take a Screenshot from the Command Line
Tweet There is no need of a graphical utility to take the screen shot of your desktop, no need to wonder how.. Lets try it with your terminal. Terminal is a powertool and solution to all the problems in linux The advantage of using commandline tool is that if you need to take a screenshot [...]
How to Creating a Xen template
Tweet One way to increase the efficiencies of Xen based systems is to utilize templates. VMware talks about this in their whitepaper for ESX2 best practices. With Xen, you have to create your own. Here is a straight forward guide for how to do it. 1. Bootstrap a DomU named -tpl (e.g. centos4-tpl). I recommend [...]
How to setup L2TP/IPSec VPN on FreeBSD
Tweet VIA: http://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=10Ve-adspb5jXDtC-LhwJAeWB0e52Tmbm5fva9ppCV5U L2TP/IPSec Configuration RAS VPN server tutorial (Version 20100711) Warning: 1) This tutorial contains scripts as well as modifications to your operating system, which may lead to degradation of performance, disruption of your network or even loss of data. Backup the data, and think twice before committing any change. 2) The steps described [...]
OpenVPN with FreeBSD, PF and Windows XP
Tweet This howto is a quick a dirty guide to building OpenVPN on a FreeBSD box (running pf as the firewall), and then connecting a Windows XP client to it. Server Install First install the port cd /usr/ports/security/openvpn make install Now that the port is installed you can start setting stuff up. First edit your [...]
Nginx rewrite rules of WordPress 3.0 Permalinks and WP-super-cache
Tweet #WP Permalinks rewrite rewrite ^.*/files/(.*)$ /wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 last; if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^.+?(/wp-.*) $1 last; rewrite ^.+?(/.*\.php)$ $1 last; rewrite ^ /index.php last; } #WP-super-cache rewrite set $wp_super_cache_file “; set $wp_super_cache_uri $request_uri; if ( $request_method = POST ) { set $wp_super_cache_uri “; } if ( $query_string ) { set $wp_super_cache_uri “; } if ( [...]
How to update Firefox to 3.6.6 on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx
Tweet Firefox 3.6.6 is a quick update to fix the hanging timeout issue in the crash protective Firefox 3.6.4. There seems to be a trouble with either old computer or people trying to play Farmville because of the loading time. So, if you are facing similar trouble on your Ubuntu system, its time to update. [...]
Ubuntu Tips: Automatic Updates : Ubuntu (all versions)
Tweet Below is a quick hack to have your Ubuntu machine automagically update for you at a pre-specified time. This includes the “update”, “upgrade”, “dist-upgrade” and “autoclean” commands. The scheduling is taken care of by cron, our trusty always-on-time friend. sudo crontab -e It is important that you use sudo at this point. The command [...]
How to : Quick intsll google software on ubuntu
Tweet Via: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html Command line configuration for APT On an APT-based system (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.), you must download the key and then use apt to install it and refresh your package indexes. For more information on Google’s package signing key, see the Signing Key page. Run these commands as root: wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub [...]
HowTo: Edit PDF Files On Ubuntu Using PDFedit
Tweet It’s really good application for modifying PDF files with a really simple interface, free opensource PDF editor, fully editing PDF files for pictures and links. About PDFedit: Free editor for PDF documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui [...]
