How to install Oracle’s OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 RC in ubuntu|LinuxMint|Debian|Fedora|Centos

November 17th, 2010 by upa_kid 
Openoffice 3.3.0 RC1 is released, this new beta release incorporates several fixes and other features. Among the improvements to be found with openoffice_logoOpenOffice.org 3.3.0 include an improved extension manager, spreadsheet improvements, initial integration with the Renaissance Project, printing restructuring, and improved Calc spreadsheet performance. About Openoffice OpenOffice.org is a...

Install LibreOffice in Fedora ,Ubuntu , LinuxMint and Debian

November 17th, 2010 by upa_kid 
LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute. A beta version of LibreOffice is available for download at the LibreOffice Web site. The current release is basically a rebranded version of Go-oo. In this post will show you how to install Libre...

Live Magic- Create a live cd/DVD for your installed Ubuntu / Debian

November 17th, 2010 by upa_kid 
If you want to create a live CD/DVD for your your installed Ubuntu or any other debian based system the easy way, we advice you to use Live Magic, a tool for end-users to quickly and easily generate their own Debian live systems. It supports selecting: Desktop environment The distribution of Debian to build (stable, testing, etc.) Media type (ISO9660, USB-HDD image, PXE netboot, etc.) Target...

How to install NOSQL cassandra DB in ubuntu and debian via ppa repository

November 17th, 2010 by upa_kid 
Cassandra is a distributed database with a BigTable data model running on a Dynamo like infrastructure. It is column-oriented and allows for the storage of relatively structured data. It has a fully decentralized model; every node is identical and there is no single point of failure. It’s also extremely fault tolerant; data is replicated to multiple nodes and across data centers....

How to Install and configure Pandora Flexible Monitoring System in ubuntu and other debian based systems

November 17th, 2010 by upa_kid 
Pandora FMS (for Pandora Flexible Monitoring System) is software solution for monitoring. Pandora FMS allows monitoring in a visual way the status and performance of several parameters from different operating systems, servers, applications and hardware systems such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers. Pandora FMS can be deployed in almost any operating system. It has remote...

How to Install ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu/debian/mint

November 16th, 2010 by upa_kid 
The TLS protocol allows client/server applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery. TLS provides endpoint authentication and communications confidentiality over the Internet using cryptography. TLS provides RSA security with 1024 and 2048 bit strengths. ProFTPD is a FTP server, it uses only one configuration file “/etc/proftpd.conf”....

Install Dreamweaver CS4 in Ubuntu/debian

November 16th, 2010 by upa_kid 
Build world-class websites and applications with one of the industry’s leading web authoring tools. Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 software is ideal for web designers, web developers, and visual designers. Manipulate pixel-level designs in Design view, or craft complex code in Code view while working in the real browser environment of Live View. There is no linux version for Dreamweaver, but there...

Start your webcam in debian with camorama

November 16th, 2010 by upa_kid 
Camorama is a GNOME 2 Webcam application featuring various image filters, it allows you to view videos from your webcam and apply various image filters to it, and can also upload images via ftp. This methode was tested under debian 5 and should work under ubuntu too . Ok, lets start : 1- download needed packges for compilation $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686...

Mirror Your Web Site With rsync On Fedora 10

November 16th, 2010 by jennyamy 
This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server (both running Fedora 10) that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over. rsync updates...

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 10

November 16th, 2010 by jennyamy 
This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Fedora 10 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver – in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is...

How To Force virt-manager To Use kqemu On Fedora 10

November 16th, 2010 by jennyamy 
When you use virt-manager to create and manage virtual machines using QEMU as hypervisor you may notice a poor performance on a no virtualization capable processor; this is because by default libvirt (an opensource virtualization API for Xen, KVM, Qemu) ignores the kqemu module (qemu acceleration kernel module). This mini-howto tries to workaround this problem. 1 Install virt-manager...

How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication On Fedora 10

November 16th, 2010 by jennyamy 
This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL. MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync. This is not a backup policy because an accidentally issued DELETE...