Category Archives: Linux

The Big Switch to Ubuntu Linux

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Tony Bhimani

For several years I had Windows XP as the operating system on my laptop. It’s been mostly out of necessity as my laptop is primarily used for work and I’ve been used to using specific applications for productivity, such as … Continue reading →

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Problems upgrading old PEAR versions

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Tony Bhimani

On some old servers I’ve had problems upgrading PEAR. I don’t remember the exact error message but I used it for a quick Google search to find one solution. If you have problems upgrading old versions of PEAR, you can … Continue reading →

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Creating Multi-Volume Archives and Checksums

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Tony Bhimani

The goal of this article is to help you create multi-volume archives and generate checksums to validate integrity. Why? You have data larger than any single CD-R disc or DVD and you need to split it into pieces, or you … Continue reading →

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Anti-Spam Techniques: DNSBL in Sendmail

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Tony Bhimani

This topic is nothing new as there are many tutorials out there covering it, but I figured I’d write a post for the hell of it. If you use Sendmail as your MTA and get vast amounts of spam you … Continue reading →

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Excluding Packages from Yum Updates

Posted on March 30, 2008 by Tony Bhimani

There may be times when you may need to exclude packages from yum updates — e.g. package conflicts, etc. I always like to give an example of why I would do this or that, so for an example pertaining to … Continue reading →

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Openfire Jabber/XMPP Server on CentOS mini-Howto

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Tony Bhimani

So you want to set up your own private chat network for friends or family, or maybe your company uses the major chat providers like AIM, Yahoo, MSN, or Google for interoffice communication, but you want more control and to … Continue reading →

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CentOS 5.1 Network Install Instructions

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Tony Bhimani

This is a simple guide to installing CentOS 5.1 via Network Install (netinstall). You can save yourself a lot of time by doing a network install and only installing the base packages rather than downloading a 3.6GB DVD ISO or … Continue reading →

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What happened to named.conf in ISC BIND DNS on Fedora 7?

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Tony Bhimani

I’ve made the great leap this week by moving to a new colocation. This site and many others have moved to a new dedicated server because the old service I used provided by unnamed company was absolutely horrible. They boasted … Continue reading →

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Hotlink Protection with Apache mod_rewrite and .htaccess

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Tony Bhimani

So you have people linking to files on your site and it’s eating up all your bandwidth. You want it to stop but you’re not sure how. If you’re using Apache for your web server, you can use .htaccess to … Continue reading →

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