How To Configure Apt Sources.List - For Complete Newbies

August 28th, 2007


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How To Configure Apt Sources.List - For Complete Newbies

So you were playing with your Apt sources.list
and somehow ruined it. No matter how hard you try you cannot get it
back. Every time you try to install a package you get error messages.
Now what? Don’t despair … I’ve been there and found an easy answer: The Aptitude Source-O-Matic: http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/

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Installing Webmin On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)

August 28th, 2007


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Installing Webmin On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)

This document describes how to setup Webmin on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) server. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. As of July 15th 2006 webmin.com has had a testing deb for the full webmin package. In order to use this, the root account needs to be enabled, which breaks one of the major security guides for Ubuntu. Using the following method of installing Webmin removes the need to enable the root account.

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Multisite CVS Drupal Installation on Ubuntu

August 28th, 2007


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Multisite CVS Drupal Installation on Ubuntu

This howto shows you how to do a multi-site Drupal install on Ubuntu.
It also covers how to layout your directories for ease of maintenance,
and how to ensure that you can update Drupal easily from CVS.

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Email Classification (Incl. Spam Classification) With POPFile On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

August 28th, 2007


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Email Classification (Incl. Spam Classification) With POPFile On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

This article shows how you can install and use POPFile to classify
incoming emails on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. It is a POP3 proxy
that fetches your mails from your mail server, classifies them and
passes them on to your email client. Of course, POPFile must be trained
to properly classify emails.

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Working With The GRUB Menu

August 28th, 2007


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Working With The GRUB Menu

This tutorial describes how to edit the GRUB menu. It will also show
how to add operating systems and how to add
splash screens.

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Filtering PDF-/XLS-/Image-Spam With ClamAV (And ISPConfig) On Debian/Ubuntu

August 28th, 2007


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Filtering PDF-/XLS-/Image-Spam With ClamAV (And ISPConfig) On Debian/Ubuntu

There is currently a lot of spam where the spam “information” is
attached as .pdf or .xls files, sometime also hidden inside a .zip
file. While these spam mails are not easy to catch with e.g.
SpamAssassin or a Bayes filter, the ClamAV virus scanner can catch them
easily when it is fed with the correct signatures as ClamAV is built to
scan mail attachments.

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Dual-Booting Windows XP/Vista And Ubuntu 7.04

August 28th, 2007


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Dual-Booting Windows XP/Vista And Ubuntu 7.04

In this tutorial I will teach you how to dual-boot between Windows XP/Vista and Ubuntu. This tutorial will be split up into two parts: Part one for people who have no operating system installed. Part two for people who have Windows XP/Vista installed and do not want to re-install Windows.

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Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies

August 28th, 2007


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Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies

In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very little knowlegde of using Linux.

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Installing Google Desktop On PCLinuxOS 2007 And Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

August 28th, 2007


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Installing Google Desktop On PCLinuxOS 2007 And Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

This article shows how you can install the Linux version of Google Desktop
on a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop and an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04)
desktop. Although the program is still marked as beta, Linux users can
already search for text inside documents, local email messages, their
Web history, and their Gmail accounts.

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Installing Xen On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Server From The Ubuntu Repositories

August 28th, 2007


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Installing Xen On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Server From The Ubuntu Repositories

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04)
server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the
Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called “virtual machines” or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0).

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