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by Rom Feria on October 14, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ugur Evirgen In a recent ArsTechnica report, Wikimedia Foundation revealed that it is currently in the process of migrating their servers to Ubuntu. This news stresses...
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by Rom Feria on June 30, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 4845865 ZFS is the advanced file system created by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and included in OpenSolaris. This same file system is now being integrated into Mac OS X...
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by Rom Feria on November 30, 2007
I was in a meeting this morning and forget to copy a file from my Macbook Pro, which I left at home, to the Asus Eee PC that I was using. One of my professors-colleague joked about calling home and......
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by Rom Feria on October 11, 2007
If you are managing several computers in a school setting, you know how complicated it gets after a quarter or semester. More often than not, it is better to do a complete re-install of the OS in each...
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by Rom Feria on October 08, 2007
There are several ways of hosting multiple websites in a single server. However, using virtual hosts is the simplest with the least overhead. As Apache stands to be the industry standard web server...
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by Rom Feria on October 06, 2007
Most of the heavyweight Linux distributions come with Apache as its web-server. Unless you are using this as your production server, it is often overkill. Apache web-server is one very powerful...
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by Rom Feria on September 08, 2007
When someone says VoIP and Linux, the first thing that comes to mind is Asterisk, the open source PBX software. This is the same software that we deployed for our university several years ago...
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by Rom Feria on September 03, 2007
In last year's Linux Admin Tips entry, I mentioned FUSE, the open source filesystem in Userspace project, and how it is used to mount remote file systems via SSH. Here's a tutorial on how to...
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by Rom Feria on August 11, 2007
Scouring the net for virtualization solutions similar to what I use on my Mac, I found an Oracle DBA's blog entry on how to install Xen on CentOS 5.0. Whilst the article seems simple to follow,...
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by Rom Feria on July 16, 2007
With hard disk drive prices plummeting rapidly, it is easy to create your own network-attached-storage (NAS). Whilst there are commercial devices that provide with a simple NAS solution, using an old...
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by Rom Feria on July 06, 2007
For those of you who have multiple network connections on a single computer or server, there might be value in aggregating the total bandwidth and making it look like a single connection. In...
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by Rom Feria on June 27, 2007
FTP is one of the easiest and most universal ways of transferring files between systems (although I prefer and highly recommend SCP) but it is also not easy to manage. In most cases, ftp access is...
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by Rom Feria on June 23, 2007
Not too long ago, I had my technical team install Subversion (SVN), a version control system, on a Mac OS X. I am not sure what happened but I think they opted to transfer it to a Linux box.......
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by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
Linux.com's Gary Sims lists various tools that you may use to monitor and manage your system processes. Budding system administrators should know these tools by heart. :) This powerful feature of...
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by Rom Feria on May 13, 2007
Not too long ago, I wrote about how you can install OpenVZ. Just in case you cannot find the time (or patience) to set it up, you can now play with OpenVZ without installing it. Today, OpenVZ is...
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by Rom Feria on May 02, 2007
Last month, I wrote about using Virtualbox on Ubuntu's Dapper Drake. Today, I bring you a How-To, written by blkwolf for How To Forge, on installing VMWare Server on Ubuntu's latest release,...
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by Rom Feria on April 20, 2007
Fast on the heels of Thursday's Ubuntu 7.0.4 release, Falko Timme releases a tutorial on how to setup a Feisty Fawn-based server over at HowToForge. The tutorial teaches you how to install a web...
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by Rom Feria on April 05, 2007
We all know that Apache web server powers a majority of today's internet. An alternative lightweight open source web server, lighttpd, is fast gaining popularity specially with the Web 2.0 folks...
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by Rom Feria on April 04, 2007
Last January, I featured VirtualBox, another open source virtualization software, along with a link to a Tutorial on how to install it on Edgy Eft. Here's another tutorial on how to install...
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by Rom Feria on March 08, 2007
First - what is Zimbra? According to their website, Zimbra is open source server and client software for messaging and collaboration - email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management...
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by Rom Feria on March 04, 2007
What is puppet? Puppet is an application that "lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate...
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by Rom Feria on March 01, 2007
InternetNews covered a Gartner report citing an increase in world-wide server growth. On a related note, LinuxElectrons reports on an IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker stating a 5.2%...
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by Rom Feria on March 01, 2007
iTWire reports of the largest open-source deal ever with the deployment of Open-Xchange by internet service provider 1&1. In what they claim is the largest-ever open source deal, collaboration...
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by Rom Feria on March 01, 2007
Keith Winston of Linux.com provides a tutorial on filtering web content using open source tools like squid and squidGuard. Content filtering for the Web can be a messy proposition. A business may...
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