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10 tips for sensible systems administration

Ask anyone about Benjamin Franklin, and you'll likely hear about his experiments with electricity, his participation in the founding of the United States, and his invention of bifocals (see Figure 1 ). Less well known but nonetheless impressive, Franklin also advocated the adoption of paper currency, printed money with innovative anti-counterfeiting techniques, established the United States Postal Service, and formed the colonies' first fire department—the Union Fire Company—in Philadelphia in 1736. In fact, centuries before Smokey the Bear, Franklin proffered sound fire safety advice, famously stating, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-sensiblesysadmin/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07Franklin-10-tips&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=grsitelnxw07

Roundcube - Free webmail for the masses

...is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. More information... http://roundcube.net/
The SquirrelMail Team is pleased to announce the release of SquirrelMail version 1.4.22. This release contains a large number of performance enhancements, stability fixes and a few bug/security fixes. The most important thing to note when upgrading to version 1.4.22 is that due to a fix made that standardizes the folder list display, administrators who had their configuration file set to work around this issue in the past will need to update their configuration. This will commonly affect those using Courier IMAP, but could affect others as well. If you have $default_sub_of_inbox set to FALSE in your main configuration (or, using the configuration tool, see "3. http://squirrelmail.org/

SquirrelMail - Webmail for Nuts!

Vmukti live event broadcasting | virtual classroom training | on

VMukti webcasted another event of Samruddha Jeevan. Hence, showing the good relationship in terms of a client and service provider. 33 days ago VMukti webcasted the JAQH’s event and made it live to all muslim communities across the country. 33 days ago http://www.vmukti.com/
Cherokee supports the most widespread Web technologies: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, uWSGI, SSI, CGI, LDAP, TLS/SSL, HTTP proxying, Video streaming, Content caching, Traffic Shaping, etc. Download Cherokee 1.2.101 Read the Documentation Contribute to the project RT @joshmcoffman: I highly recommend Cherokee Web Server (@webserver).

Cherokee Web Server

http://www.cherokee-project.com/

Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html We now use bz2 compression in the first stage, have the run time option to check for bad blocks, and have a script that runs the entire first stage. Initial version for LDP release Imagine your disk drive has just become a very expensive hockey puck. Imagine you have had a fire, and your computer case now looks like something Salvador Dalĩ would like to paint.
I have backed up my system to an external ximeta drive using "dd" and the well-known linux live cd distribution, Knoppix to boot from. Below are the steps in brief: "dd" is the command to make a bit-by-bit copy of "if=/dev/hda" as the "Input File" to "of=/mnt/sda1/hda.img.gz" as the "Output File". Everything from the partition will go into an "Output File" named "hda.img.gz". "conv=sync,noerror" tells dd that if it can't read a block due to a read error, then it should at least write something to its output of the correct length.

Image Your Hard Drive using dd | LinuxWebLog.com

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Page Load Error

You must have heard about Norton Ghost, which makes a snapshot of a hard disk allowing you to restore your system in case of a crash. However, Norton Ghost is a commercial tool that costs a lot of money. 'Ghost for Linux' is a free and open source equivalent of this tool.
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HOWTO – Setup Parental Controls with DansGuardian and Squid

Ignoring the dangers implicit with censorship, this guide should offer a simple way to filter what some may consider “objectionable” content from the cesspool that is the internet. The configuration outlined here may also have the added benefit of caching web requests, which can lead to noticeable performance gains for many home users, most often in the case of frequent accesses to the same site (such as Facebook , which seems popular at the time of this writing).
http://www.busybox.net/ The Software Freedom Conservancy acts as the GPL enforcement agent for various BusyBox copyright holders. If you wish to report a GPL violation on BusyBox, please write to gpl@busybox.net . Analog Devices, Inc. provided a Blackfin development board free of charge. Blackfin is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. If you are an embedded device developer, please note that Analog Devices has an entire Linux distribution available for download for this board. Visit http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ for more information.

BusyBox

This document describes how to backup and restore your filesystems with the dump(8) and restore(8) utilities of BSD origin. Also covered is the basic operation of magnetic tapes with the mt(1) command to complement the simple yet powerful suite. Appendix

Backup with dump and restore on Linux mini-HOWTO

Frequently Asked Questions – puppet

Welcome to the Puppet Labs documentation site.

Infrastructures.Org: Best Practices in Automated Systems Adminis

Most IT organizations still install and maintain computers the same way the automotive industry built cars in the early 1900's: An individual craftsman manually manipulates a machine into being, and manually maintains it afterward. This is expensive. The automotive industry discovered first mass production, then mass customization using standard tooling.