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BitTorrent - downloading large files made easy 2007-09-07 04:41:00 Want to download Harry Potter The Order of the Phoenix the movie in Linux desktop? Linux is free, Harry Potter The Order of the Phoenix movie is free as well? Suffering from slow internet dialup... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

PHPAlbum - web photo album install howto 2007-09-06 10:25:00 PHPAlbum is an easy to install and run photo album and gallery script. It doesn't require a database and features automatic installation on an FTP server with just a few clicks. It generates... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

MRTG graph creation with Cisco routers 2007-09-06 09:38:00 MRTG graph creation routers and devices ======================================= From my recent blog entry of MRTG install howtos, which can be found here. Here is another entry to cover several... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Tree view of directories and file listings from command line 2007-09-05 06:42:00 A detailed run down of one command mentioned from one linux tips link posted here, was the linux command tree. Man says: Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

MAC address packet filtering using IPTables 2007-09-05 04:16:00 Wikipedia says: Media Access Control address (MAC address) or Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA) or hardware address or adapter address is a quasi-unique identifier attached to most network adapters... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

GTK-based GNOME Linux Tools 2007-09-04 13:51:00 GTK-based GNOME Linux Tools =========================== As this blog entry aims to provide more linux information and tool sets specially to RedHat based distro like Fedora, CentOs, Fox, WhiteOs,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Linux backups powered by RSnapShot 2007-09-04 09:47:00 For more linux backups alternatives, which was covered here and here,. RSnapShot, as mentioned to be a future entry, is now here as an alternative backup tools in linux. RSnapShot is a linux... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

MRTG tutorial, install and howtos 2007-09-04 06:14:00 The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

FindSMB - view shared folders from network 2007-09-04 05:09:00 Here's another tool to list out all shared folder from network neighborhood. Findsmb is a perl script that prints out several pieces of information about machines on a subnet that respond to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Squid - upgrade and install howto 2007-09-04 05:08:00 If you are currently running a rpm-based squid binary, and you have just made a fresh fedora installation, here's an on how to upgrade and install your currently running Squid proxy web caching... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

prompt and press a key between script lines 2007-09-04 03:09:00 Ever wonder how this simple mechanism goes where in an installation script prompts you a question and waits for you to press any key at a give time interval? Here's a quick entry on how to prompt... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

GTK-based GNOME Linux tools 2007-09-03 18:40:00 As this blog entry aims to provide more linux information and tool sets specially to RedHat based distro like Fedora, CentOs, Fox, WhiteOs, with audience consideration from linux friendly newbies up... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

Devede - DVD/VCD video authoring and creation tool 2007-09-03 13:20:00 Here's an entry to cover a linux tool on creating video DVDs and CDs, super VCDs, CVD, DIVX and MPEG-4 DVDs/CDs in Fedora 7 using a small linux tool called Devede. DeVeDe is a program to create... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... Dvd

display file and file system status 2007-09-03 12:43:00 Display of file or file system status Linux is totally comprised of different file types. Here's an entry on display more file info or file system info status using the linux command stat. # stat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

determine file type 2007-09-03 12:37:00 determine file type An entry on how to determine file type. This linux command file determine file types classification in three different ways namely filesystem tests, magic number tests, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...