vnStat PHP: A Graphical Frontend for vnStat Network Bandwidth Monitoring Tool
We have already shown you how to install and monitor network interface bandwidth usage using vnStat in our previous article. Since vnStat command is only command mode, the author of vnStat have created...
View ArticleeXo Platform: An Enterprise Social Platform and Portal
eXo is an open source social-collaboration platform for enterprise written in Java, Groovey and JavaEE Web Container. It offers social intranet like Facebook and website capabilities such as Wikis,...
View ArticleInstall your own Instant Messaging Server with Openfire
Openfire is a powerful instant messaging (IM) and chat server that implements the XMPP protocol written in Java. It is previously known as Wildfire and Jive Messenger. In this article, let us see how...
View ArticleSetup Your Own Online Survey Using Limesurvey and LAMP Server
LimeSurvey, formerly known as PHPSurveyor, is an open-source survey application written in PHP that can be used to create powerful online question and answer type surveys in minutes without much effort...
View ArticleSteg: Hide Your Confidential Data Inside Images
Steg is a cross-platform portable software written in C++ which is used to hide your confidential data inside compressed or uncompressed images. It supports JPEG (JPG), TIFF, PNG, BMP image formats. It...
View ArticleHow to Add Shortcut Keys in XFCE
Although XFCE is providing a great Graphical User Interface (GUI), we still love to reach our desired applications and perform actions instantly and quickly, just by pressing a few key-pairs of our...
View ArticleHow to Administer your Databases with Adminer
Adminer, formerly known as phpMinAdmin, is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. It is available for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL and Oracle. Why Adminer instead of phpMyAdmin?...
View ArticleEasy Navigation Through Your Folders
Tired of typing long path names? Me too. I have a very good solution that will save you time and energy. Type less, be more productive. Forget the parent directory, if you want to go to a sub-directory...
View ArticleRHEL/CentOS 6.4 LDAP MD5 Certificate Error Caused by NSS 3.14 Update
After a recent update to the latest RHEL 6.4, an issue arose that caused LDAP to stop using our MD5 signed certificate. This was due to the nss-3.14.0 update that now deems MD5 as un-secure. This...
View ArticleHow To Improve Laptop Battery Life And Usage In Linux Using TLP
TLP is an advanced power management tool for Linux that gives the settings and tweaks to enhance your existing power management automatically without the need to know every technical details. It is a...
View ArticleSetting Up RHEL 6 for Microsoft SCOM 2012 Support
Believe it or not, it’s important to know that Microsoft has a monitoring solution for Linux servers using Microsoft SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) 2012, which recently I had the chance to...
View ArticleManage Your Amarok Music Collection with MySQL
Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows OS with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before – and it looks good...
View ArticleFind and Block Who is Tracking You Online
Whenever we visit a website, we are tracked by our ISP, unknown people(s) and of course, the NSA. They analyze our online activities and share the information to website owner or to some third party...
View ArticleHow to Harden Your Linux Servers Security with Bastille
The Bastille hardening program “locks down” an operating system, pro-actively configuring the system for increased security and decreasing its susceptibility to compromise and downtime. Bastille can...
View ArticleSecure and Prevent Files From Accidental Deletion With Chattr Command
There are plenty of tools and methods out there to secure and prevent your files and folders from accidental deletion. Chatter is one of them. It is a command-line utility to change the file attributes...
View ArticleLibreOffice 4.1 Released – Install on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian
LibreOffice 4.1 was officially released on July 23, 2013. LibreOffice is an open-source, simple and powerful office suite for Linux, Windows OS and Mac OS users. New Features From the official,...
View ArticleMonitor Per Process Network Bandwidth Usage with Nethogs
NetHogs is an open-source, small ‘net top’ tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special...
View ArticleHow to Install Latest GIT on RHEL 6/CentOS 6
So you want to setup a GIT Repository for your developers on RHEL 6/CentOS 6, but notice Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 contains 1.7.1 in the repositories, which is well behind the current 1.8.3 that is...
View ArticleHow to Format USB Drive in the Terminal
We all at some point in time we all format our USB drives. The question I would like to ask is how do you do it? Is it from GUI or terminal? I see formatting USB drives from the terminal very handy....
View ArticleUpgrade from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19 with FedUp
Fedora 19 has been out for a while and some of the preliminary bugs have been worked out. So it’s time to take the plunge and upgrade from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19. Well, thanks to the Fedora Team,...
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