In simple words tunneling is a method of bypassing firewall or proxy restrictions using some tunnelling protocols. It works by creating a "tunnel", or a communications channel that makes the firewall think that it is getting traffic from a web browser. Communications content is delivered through this tunnel to our gateway or your own personal gateway.
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If you're running GNU/Linux, please tick off here to let the world know we're > 1 %
With this initiative, they intend to refute the statistics of certain press organizations that ensure that the use of GNU/Linux does not exceed 1% and has not advanced in recent years at the desktop.
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Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network based digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network.
Bitcoin is an open source project created by Satoshi Nakamoto, and is currently in beta development stage. Bitcoin development is hosted at SourceForge.
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GNU Solfege 3.18.1 release announcement
Solfege is free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. It is free software and runs on GNU/Linux and other systems with some effort with the required tools. It should run wherever you can run Python, Gtk+, PyGtk.
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How To Integrate ClamAV Into ProFTPd For Virus Scanning On Debian Lenny
This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into ProFTPd for virus scanning on a Debian Lenny system. This is achieved through mod_clamav. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through ProFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.
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Copying Remote Files with scp
To use scp to transfer files, the SSH service (usually the sshd server daemon) must be running on the remote system. Here are some examples of useful scp commands:
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Remove Old Kernels In Ubuntu With One Command
I decided to try and come up with my own one-liner to remove the old kernels from my system. In this post I'll take you through each portion of this one-liner step by step so you can see how it works.
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.5
Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a CentOS 5.5 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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The Marvel of Marble
Marble is one of the initiatives that are part of the KDE Education project. This application provides several different "skins" to a 3D rendering of the Earth, ranging from temperature maps to very detailed street maps based off OpenStreetMap.
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Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' Release Candidate is Available Now, Complete Review
Ubuntu 10.10 codenamed 'Maverick Meerkat' just reached to Release Candidate version. The final version will be released on October, 10.I have been testing Ubuntu 10.10 from 2nd Alpha onwards. The development have been going at fast pace with constant addition of new features and bug fixes.
Read more »GIMPBox gives stable versions of The GIMP single window mode
The latest development release of The Gimp image editor comes with a handy option single-window mode, but what if you’re sticking with the latest, floaty-palette stable release, like those available in the Ubuntu repositories, but would love such a feature? Can it be done?
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5 Intriguing KDE Apps
A quick look at KDE-Apps.org reveals that new apps are added daily. I periodically browse through the latest KDE apps to see if anything stands out, and I found these five, some of which are in early development.
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Tuxpaint: hook ‘em on open source graphics while they’re young
Tuxpaint is an open source graphics program that occupies a special niche: it is designed for children. Tuxpaint has just six tools: paintbrush, rubber stamp, line tool, text tool, polygon tool, and eraser.
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Setting Up An NFS Server And Client On CentOS 5.5
This guide explains how to set up an NFS server and an NFS client on CentOS 5.5. NFS stands for Network File System; through NFS, a client can access (read, write) a remote share on an NFS server as if it was on the local hard disk.
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How I converted my Office to Linux
How I converted my Office to Linux by MLUG This is a recording OSGUI Tim filmed of Mick & the Melbourne Linux Users Group (MLUG) guys on the 25th Aug 2010 in North Melbourne Computer Bank Office.
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