Offering a potential alternative to the existing suspend and restore implementations in the Linux Kernel, Ying Huang posted a patch utilizing kexec, "kexec based hibernation has some potential advantages over uswsusp and suspend2. "
Read more »Automation for the people: Asserting architectural soundness
Linux Postfix mail server SSL certificate installations and configuration
Procedure for creating a CSR on postfix MTA is just like web server. You need to use OpenSSL which is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) network protocols and related cryptography standards under Linux / UNIX.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Installing Zabbix (Server And Agent) On Debian Etch
Zabbix is a solution for monitoring applications, networks, and servers. With Zabbix, you can monitor multiple servers at a time, using a Zabbix server that comes with a web interface (that is used to configure Zabbix and holds the graphs of your systems) and Zabbix agents that are installed on the systems to be monitored.
Read more »- Login to post comments
23 super-useful Linux command line tools: IT pros’ choices
Our readers and experts helped us create our first guide to the 50 most-used Linux command line tools. This wildly popular guide needs updating, so we asked our inner circle to pitch in again.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Digital TV receiver stack gains Donau port
Ocean Blue Software is readying a digital TV receiver software stack aimed at free-to-air and pay-TV digital set-top boxes and TVs for European, U.S., and Japanese markets. The stack, which targets Linux-based devices, aims to simplify the development of reduced-component-count consumer electronic devices based on Toshiba's second-generation TC9040x "Donau" processors.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Where are your site visitors? GeoIP knows
If you maintain a portal, ecommerce site, or heavily trafficked Web site, you might appreciate the ability to identify the geographical location of your site visitors. A good approach is a database that maps each IP address to a location -- such as MaxMind's GeoIP.
Read more »- Login to post comments
GPL DOS adds features
- Login to post comments
Improving Linux font rasterization?
Many people are unsatisfied with the existing ways of font display systems on Linux. A research paper from Anti-Grain now showed easy but powerful text rasterization improvements. However, the answer from the FreeType developers is a bit sobering.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 7
This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.
Read more »- Login to post comments
A three-pronged attack on performance
A computer running Linux can outperform the same computer running Windows XP or Vista. Even so, you may be able to make your Linux system even faster. Here are three optimizations, at different levels, that can make your Linux system perform better.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Dzen: pop-up windows from the command-line
I stumbled across an interesting and useful tool recently called dzen, a "general purpose messaging and notification program" written by Rob Manea. Basically, dzen provides an instant-on/instant-off pop-up terminal window, along with a multitude of options that allow you to run just about any command.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Multi-touch support for MPX - MPX: The Multi-Pointer X Server
MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. Now I've gone one step further and added support for multi-touch displays. Have a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWjnfBoY8E
Read more »- Login to post comments
And they're In! iPhone Shell Access Gained
The industrious hackers at the Hackint0sh forums have reached a milestone in iPhone cracking. Using the iPhoneInterface application, forum members have successfully enabled a shell on the iPhone.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Improved kprop script
I run a master and slave Kerberos servers, which requires setting up kprop to run regularly on the master server in order to transfer any changes to the slave server.
Read more »- Login to post comments