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HowTo: Install and Say Cheese 2008-01-15 15:32:00 What is Cheese? Cheese is a GNOME application designed to take photos and videos of you and your friends with your webcam, add special effects to them and share them with your friends and family. Cheese linux application was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx, and has most of the classical photo booth features after a bare ...

HowTo: Install HomeBank and Manage Personal & Financial Accounts 2008-01-15 15:31:00 If you are looking for an easy way to manage your personal accounts, finances, manual finances analysis, dirty does it financial graphs...then read on. Introducing HomeBank HomeBank is the free software you have always wanted to manage your personal accounts at home. The main concept is to be light, simple and very easy to use. HomeBank brings you many features that allows you to analyze ... Amp

HowTo: Install Mind-Mapping LabyRinth Tool 2008-01-15 15:29:00 Do you need a mind-mapping tool for linux? How about an abstract representation and map of ideas, analogies, symbols, plans and funny snappy things that comes in our mind from time to time to be drawn from a linux tool? Introducing Labyringth Labyrinth is a lightweight mind-mapping tool, written in Python using Gtk and Cairo to do the drawing. Labyrinth is intended to be as light, easy to ...

HowTo: Install VMWare Server on Fedora 8 2008-01-15 03:31:00 Desktop virtualization has been continuously capturing users and web services. More and more companies are creating virtual machines and appliances that can be of productive service to many web users around the globe. From recent post, here's a quick howto install VMWare Server on Fedora 8. VMWare Server Pre-Requirements VMWare Server package needs to compile its own needed VMWare kernel ...

HowTo: Install VMWare Workstation on Fedora 8 2008-01-14 01:42:00 Installing VMware Workstation software on Fedora 8 should not be a problem at all using Fedora rpm package installer. Considering an old post of installing VMWare on Fedora 7, I have encountered a strange installation issue and changes of installing VMWare workstations 6.02 on Fedora 8. Here's how to install VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 on Fedora 8. Pre-Requirements First, check my version ...

HowTo: Virtual PCLinux 2007 via VirtualBox over Fedora 8 2008-01-11 08:20:00 Five Easy Steps of Virtual PCLinux 2007 OS inside Fedora 8 via VirtualBox. I was trying to get myself a less more busy with linux UML kernel compilation a couple of hours ago and, all of a sudden as an eye refresher, I simply went back into creating a simple blog entry on creating a virtual PCLinux 2007 machine inside my Fedora 8 using VirtualBox linux software. This got my linux interests of ...

HowTo: Enable PortMap on Fedora 8 2008-01-10 07:46:00 Looking for portmap rpm package in Fedora 8? How to recover and install portmap on Fedora 7 and Fedora 8? Have you lost or uninstalled your portmap package on Fedora 7/8? Does your NFS service handing due to deactivated portmap service? Are you experiencing weird start up problems with your NFS? What is Portmap? Portmap is a security tool which prevents theft of NIS (YP), NFS and other ...

HowTo: Linux Hardware Lister Tool - LsHw 2008-01-10 02:54:00 Listing hardware in linux can be done quite difficult specially for new linux users. There are many way on how one can obtain hardware list from his PC. Here's another alternative on listing out your hardware details from Fedora box. Lshw is a linux tool for listing out hardware details from your PC. Using this hardware lister tool, it enables you to view the detailed specs of your PC, from ...

HowTo: Install Bandwidth Shaper - Trickle on Fedora 2008-01-09 03:26:00 Shaping bandwidth traffic has been a usual part of job function from any IT company infrastructure providing online services to the web. From small scale company to enterprise scale, bandwidth shaping needs to be implemented and applied properly and effectively. Here's one lightweight linux traffic shaper that makes use of existing network traffic shaping that is part of current linux kernel ...

HowTo: VnStat Long-Term Traffic Monitoring via CLI 2008-01-09 02:31:00 Another interface monitoring tool that logs and keeps track of past traffic usage and statistics is VnStat. VnStat is a console-based long-term traffic monitoring utility that makes use monitors traffic usage and details and stores them into flat database for future comparison and statistical purpose. VnStat does not require root access and privilege to do its function. vnStat is a ...

HowTo: Install NetSpeed Traffic Monitoring Applet 2008-01-09 02:18:00 Now, if you want to monitor your network interface from GNOME X, here's another linux network interface usage and monitoring tool you can use and install. Netspeed is a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic is currently passing thru on your specified network devices. NetSpeed monitoring applet can show current network incoming and outgoing traffic from your selected interface. Since ...

HowTo: Install IPTraff LAN Monitoring Tool 2008-01-09 02:02:00 IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility and IP LAN monitoring tool for Linux. IPTraf gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts. IPTraf supports a wide variety of network statistics and IP protocols including TCP info, UDP counts, ICMP ...

HowTo: Install Ibmonitor Interface Bandwidth Monitor 2008-01-09 01:44:00 If you wish to monitor bandwidth consumption of your host interfaces, here's another console-based linux bandwidth and network interface monitoring tool from linux. ibmonitor is an interactive linux console application which shows bandwidth consumed and total data transferred on all interfaces. ibmonitor main features are: * Shows received, transmitted and total bandwidth of each ...

HowTo: Install IfTop Bandwidth Monitoring Tool 2008-01-09 01:28:00 Here's another bandwidth monitoring tool from linux console. Iftop is another console-based bandwidth monitoring tool available from linux. Iftop offers more feature that can be quite useful on monitoring bandwidth from console terminal. When executed, this bandwidth monitoring tool displays source and destination hosts currently passing thru its current selected interface(s). Iftop can ...

HowTo: Fedora WordPress Installation 2008-01-05 11:20:00 How to blog from your own desktop? How to install WordPress? Yes, you can start blogging from web hosting firms, but have you tried blogging from your own desktop using WordPress? If not, read on. WordPress installation process is as easy as installing any other software in Fedora. You could try to blog from your own desktop, test some themes and plugins faster, do some WordPress export and ...