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We have just created a new subreddit on reddit.com called Linux News. You can find it by navigating to r/linuxnews. This is for anyone to post up what they believe is good Linux news. We’ll also be posting news on there (hopefully) fairly often. … Read entire article »
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Insync solves Google Drive for the Linux Desktop
Insync announced late last night that their desktop application is now available for Linux users. This means you can have dropbox-like functionality on your Google Drive! It is in beta, but most users that have installed it already are raving about it so far. A user friendly operating system will help you navigate easily through your computer. So far it has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and LinuxMint 13. I’m using Fedora 17 and while it seemed to install, I received some errors when I went to run the desktop version. I’ll admit I haven’t looked into why it didn’t work yet, but i’ll post my findings on here if I come up with a fix. They did mention that future versions will include support for older versions and other Linux … Read entire article »
Webmasters: Check out Webmaster.cm
Webmaster.cm is a forum for (you guessed it!) webmasters of all shapes and sizes. It’s a sister (or brother?) site to LinuxNews.co so you really do need to go take a look, sign up and post something interesting (or learn something!?)! Check it out today: Webmaster Forum – Webmaster.cm Also, for the best in Website Monitoring, you can’t go wrong with GotSiteMonitor.com … Read entire article »
ACLs finer grained permissions control
There has been more than one time where I have needed to allow more than a user or group access to some files. Also there are times when the group/user that has ownership is just too powerful for the purpose of access. That is where ACLs come into play. Allowing a finer grained control over access to files and directories. Caution using ACLs can be confusing at first and if not used properly can allow users access that you may not want. First things first make sure that you have the ACL tools installed: Note: I am using Oracle Enterprise Linux as my server so the package you need to install may be different. … Read entire article »
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IQnection Revitalizing Linux.org
DOYLESTOWN, PA, Apr 3, 2012 – IQnection Internet Services, Inc, an Internet Hosting company in Doylestown, PA, today has announced an agreement with Linux Online Inc. (owners of the Linux.org domain name) to create a new community oriented website, publish/maintain content and host the Linux.org site. The Linux.org community was started in 1994. It quickly grew in size and popularity to become the Internet’s leading resource for Linux information. Unfortunately, Linux.org went offline in March of 2011. Greg Cawood, IQnection’s President, is excited about the project. “I remember when I first came across Linux.org about 15 years ago” he states. “It is one of those resources that you keep going back to and it needs to be online so that people can find the info!” “IQnection is is currently writing the website code … Read entire article »
New Hosting Forum – LinuxHostingTalk .com
If you’re into web hosting, check out the new LinuxHostingTalk.com. It’s got some great users and conversation already.. join today! … Read entire article »
HOWTO – Installing Porteus from both Windows and Linux
Porteus – The most portible distribution you will ever use. Hello, I am going to guide you through the install version 1.1 of the Porteus Linux distribution. A light weight (under 300megs), fast and modular distribution based on Slackware. We will start by downloading the image we need, These images can be downloaded here: http://porteus.org/distro-download/main-download.html If you do not know which to choose the 32-bit image is the safer choice. Both versions of Porteus come with two different desktop Environments. 32-Bit Read the full story here. … Read entire article »
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cPanel: SSL on subdomain howto
First, let’s lay out the situation. You have a site named mystore.com. It has a cart so you’ve set it up with SSL. Now, you’re redesigning it and have the subdomain newsite.mystore.com set up under your main account in cPanel for your redesign space. You’ve started your redesign, but you find out quickly that SSL is not set up on this new subdomain and you can’t find a way within cPanel to accomplish this. cPanel gives you two options for SSL on subdomains: 1. Set up your subdomain as it’s own account - This will easily allow you to assign it its own IP address, but a bit of an annoyance if you’ve already started developing in its current space. 2. Modify some files to assign it its own IP address – and leave … Read entire article »
Our site was reviewed – we made the suggested changes :)
KPReviews.com reviewed LinuxOS pro yesterday – We made the suggested changes: 1. bg image too heavy – we changed it from 1mb to 67k 2. too many ads & more than one ad network – we removed the 4 blocks in the sidebar.. for now it’s just adsense. Submit your site to KPReviews.com today and see what they come up with! … Read entire article »
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Disable annoying bell in Gnome Terminal, vim, xterm, etc…
We’ll hear it when we reach the end of a line, we’ll hear it when we hit tab to complete a word and there’s more than one choice, in about 2 minutes you won’t hear it anymore. It’s the simplest thing to do but we never look into it – because most of the time when the bell goes off we’re in the middle of something else. Silence the bell! 1. Open up a gnome terminal 2. Go to Edit –> Profile Prefrences 3. Untick “Terminal bell” 4. Click Close 5. Crank up the speakers and hit tab 3-4 times What if you just want to turn it off when you’re in vim? 1. Edit ~/.vimrc 2. Add the line: set vb Using xterm? 1. Edit ~/.xsession 2. Add the line: xset b off Bash shell? 1. Edit ~/.inputrc 2. Add the line: set bell-style none … Read entire article »
Set up passwordless SSH
Let’s say you have four servers: keyserver, server1, server2, server3. You want to put keyserver’s keys in server1, server2 and server3.. that way you can connect to keyserver from your workstation and then passwordlessly connect to any of your 3 other servers. … Read entire article »
Resize Linux storage with LVM
You need more space on your server/desktop/etc.. This guide will help you add it to the volume you’re currently using on your system. For the sake of making this an easy-to-follow guide, we’ll assume that you already have the new drive showing in your Linux installation from fdisk, but it’s not yet usable (ie: you made it available from shared storage, you installed a new harddrive, etc..). You can further increase your Intel Core i5 Apple Mac mini storage capacity using reliable 32GB SD cards. … Read entire article »
SSH: The VPN No One Remembers
For anyone that doesn’t know about VPNs, its basically the ability to use your server’s resources (drives, bandwidth sometimes, etc…) remotely. So, for example, say you want to mount your server’s /dev/sda6 partition to your home PC. You can use a VPN to do this, and you’ll be able to browse all of those files from the luxury of your home PC. … Read entire article »