CentOS 6.2 – Installing mod_spdy With Apache 2 – Level Novice

CentOS 6.2 – Installing mod_spdy With Apache 2 – Level Novice
SPDY (Speedy) is an experiment with protocols for the web. Its goal
is to reduce the latency of web pages. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache
module which supports the use of SPDY protocol…

Maintaining Remote Web Sites With sitecopy (Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10)

Maintaining Remote Web Sites With sitecopy (Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10)

sitecopy
is a tool for copying locally stored web sites to a remote web server
(using FTP or WebDAV). It helps you to keep the remote site synchronized
with your local copy b…

How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze)

How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze)

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication
(using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on a Debian Squeeze server. WebDAV
stands for Web-based Distributed Auth…

Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative)

Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative)

This guide explains how to install the phpMyAdmin alternative Chive.
Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool with
easy administration, super fast UI and state of th…

Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Debian Squeeze

Using mod_spdy With Apache2 On Debian Squeeze

SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) is a new networking protocol whose goal
is to speed up the web. It is Google’s alternative to the HTTP protocol
and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several…

Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10

Distributed Replicated Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 11.10) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (repl…

Remotely Unlock Fully Encrypted Debian Squeeze

Remotely Unlock Fully Encrypted Debian Squeeze
In the past I have written several howtos for remotely unlocking
fully encrypted Debian installations. With the advent of Debian Squeeze,
the developers have integrated a simple way to do so. Most stuff…

Linux Basics – Set A Static IP On Ubuntu

Linux Basics – Set A Static IP On Ubuntu

This tutorial explains how to set a static IP on an Ubuntu system from the command line.

Configuring DNSSEC On BIND9 (9.7.3) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

Configuring DNSSEC On BIND9 (9.7.3) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This guide explains how you can configure DNSSEC on BIND9 (version
9.7.3 that comes with Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10) on Debian Squeeze and
Ubuntu 11.10. It covers how to enable DNSS…

A Selection of the Very Best Open Source Tutorials and Tools

Regularly, we at OStatic update our collections of open source resources, tutorials, free open source books, reviews, product comparisons and…

FreeFileSync – Visual folder comparison and synchronization

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or…

Simple Linux Auditing

Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and information of that is out of place and…

5daysprofitable: A corporate web site, start to finish, in 4 hours

In my previous article, I explained that I would embark in the Herculean task of starting a company, and make it successful and profitable, in just 5 days. And by using free software. The first piece of this complex puzzle is a corporate web site. I had mine ready in less than 4 hours, start [...]

From Zero to Drupal in 30 Minutes

The flexible Drupal content management system (CMS) lets you build all kinds of websites, from simple blogs to complex giant…

Blending Multiple Images and Creating Captions in Gimp

One of the funnest features of digital image editing is taking pieces of different images and blending them together in…

Make Self-Extracting Archives with makeself.sh

When making your custom scripts or software available to someone else, it’s a good idea to make that content as…

Easily Edit and Create Custom Launchers, Desktop Entries in Gnome 3 [Unity and Gnome Shell]

Gnome 2 has this excellent feature to create custom launcher from simple right click menu option. Unfortunately this ability has…

How to create a business card with GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo…

Creating Custom Fancy Address Labels in LibreOffice

There are something like a squillion and one different Avery® and Avery-compatible address labels you can buy, and with the…

Linux: 20 Iptables Examples For New SysAdmins

Linux comes with a host based firewall called Netfilter. According to the official project site: netfilter is a set of…