While I am in a stage of moving my blog to hosting on my own worpdress.org engine, as it is currently hosted on wordpress.com, I am looking out there for ways to add more functionality with new upcoming theme, as well tools that will help me to administer and track different feedbacks and statistics.
One of [...]
Nagios is a popular host and service monitoring tool used by many administrators to keep an eye on their systems. It watches hosts across the local area network (LAN) and/or across the Internet, services that you can specify, alerting you when things go bad.
Nagios is included in several OS distributions and security packages. As of [...]
Here is article on how to install the Cisco VPN client in OpenSuSE, sure you can use vpnc which is compatible with Cisco but I thought it would be a nice post.
First make sure that you are running kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3. Earlier versions of the kernel gave us problems during compile. Check your kernel version with:
# [...]
I have been trying to find out for months how to use internet sharing via usb on a windows mobile 6 device under linux. I had managed in a prior post to get bluetooth PAND working and even to get bluetooth DUN and USB DUN working but had been unsuccessful with the USB internet sharing..until [...]
Twitter is all right if you like visiting a web page and hitting refresh a few thousand times a day to see what all of your friends have been up to. But where the mini-blogging platform really becomes exciting when you use a desktop or cellphone client to keep tracks of tweets as they come [...]
A very interesting howto written by Dr.Small, which might come handy to a lot of people, or perhaps some time in future.
I run into all kinds of predicaments when operating from behind a router, and one of them is, to be able to record my External (or WAN) IP, while behind it.
I am going to [...]
Adobe Systems today announced it will release the remoting and messaging technologies used in Flex, Flash and other Adobe products as open source projects. Because the technologies are fairly mature, Adobe isn’t so much looking for help from the open source community as it is looking to get its technology into more hands.
Adobe intends to [...]
Several months ago Novell started the project named Banter. It’s being called the next generation collaboration client. Think of it as software that combines all of your online “Web 2.0″ services along with chat, video, and voice into your contact management system.
Banter’s focus is on collaboration with people. One method of collaboration is IM. Banter [...]
UPDATE to my Previous Post: After tweaking a little with the position of the camera and playing around with the light source, and then later returning back webcam to it’s original position, the view is much better, I mean the brightness/contrast, compared to what I got from my initial experience. I am not sure whether [...]
This tutorial shows how to install x11vnc on your N800 which in return makes it possible to connect remotely to your N800 device using VNC.
I. Setting Up Nokia N800 for VNC Access Using `x11vnc`
1. Install x11vnc application on the Nokia N800. Either download the x11vnc deb package on the PC, transfer it to N800 and [...]
“This release is not just a revolution for us in Linux, but a revolution for the Skype world at large. No longer are we, the people of Linux, prevented from socialising in the same way as our peers.”
The time has come at last, one of the long awaited features - for video has arrived to [...]
This How To is one of the best and is been there for sometime now, from the days of SuSE 9.3. This one is updated with openSUSE 10.3 in mind as of this October …. make sure you check it out if you are planning to network and share files between your openSUSE and Windows [...]
Mail Notification monitors your mailboxes for new mail.
When new mail arrives, Mail Notification alerts you by displaying an icon in the system tray. Moreover, a mail summary can be displayed in the icon tooltip, and notifications containing useful action buttons can be popped up. It an monitor multiple mailboxes concurrently, and supports mbox, MH, [...]
The following is a list of open source sniffer applications that can be used to tap into your wireless network.
Tcpdump - a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or [...]
Open source security is like a military general who shows his plans to both his allies and his enemies. On the one hand, his enemies can try to exploit the plan by targeting its weaknesses. But on the other hand, by exposing his tactics to those who want to help, the plan is ultimately much [...]
The NetworkManager tries to ease the usage of wireless networks from a users point of view. The next version 0.6.5 will incorporate support for a range of authentication methods which are often used in large WLAN deployments.
The NetworkManager is an irreplaceable tool when you work with changing networks on a Linux computer: it can manage [...]
I configured Apache2 on a newly installed openSUSE 10.2 using YaST, which is how SUSE wants you to do it (rather than editing the files directly). YaST doesn’t report what files it will be modifying and can’t be undone once run, which causes me some anxiety.
Nevertheless, I still use YaST for the initial setup on [...]
The Preboot Execution Environment (in short PXE) is a protocol that enables a computer to be booted on the network. PXE is saved in ROM on newer network cards and, depending on the boot sequence configured in the computer’s BIOS, loaded and executed after turning on the computer.
This HOWTO describes how to setup an openSUSE [...]
OpenVPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN software based on SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) that offers cross-platform interoperability. The majority of OpenVPN tutorials I’ve found describe how users can connect to a corporate network from their laptops over insecure networks, such as the wireless network in a hotel. By contrast, the setup I’m about to [...]
Are you looking forward to setting up an intranet in your office or home network? Then you will benefit by setting up DNS on your server. DNS stands for Domain Name System and is used to resolve names to IP address and vice versa. For example, when you type the name www.google.com, it is the [...]
Worked for me on a Compaq Presario with a 5007 in 64 bit Hardy. I needed to add... dai_vernon | July 8, 2008 | More >>
I have a advent t2370 bought from pc world who no longer sell xp machines... David Murphy | July 8, 2008 | More >>
This would be much nicer if compiled with sunstudio cc, so you could... Brian Szymanski | July 8, 2008 | More >>
i need help, it didn’t work, i have an ati radeon x1300/1500, 256 mb of... Steven | July 7, 2008 | More >>
Thank you very much. This was a great help. grot | July 7, 2008 | More >>
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