Linux, programming and more
GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It’s a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the sub-shell. Internal viewer and editor are included.
No cp and mv more.
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Some years ago a set up my mail system with SMTP authentication, the credentials for sending and receiving E-Mails could be different. I had a special list for SMTP auth with username:password.
I think it is too secure and it makes me too much work to document all this passwords
You can access the Courier authdaemon from an Exim authenticator. That means you have only one password.
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Ambilight-TV is great, why not for your home monitor?
Build your own ambilight for home PC!
What you need:
– 2 Cold light cathodes (Length: 316mm)
– 1 Inverter
– 2 Cables about 1 meter
– Solder, Soldering Iron and equipment
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If you have a FTP backup space for your vserver or dedicated server, tartarus is a great tool to create and crypt your backups.
This is my method to backup my Hetzner server
Install tartarus on Debian squeeze: (works on ubuntu too)
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I have a tiny embedded server (acrosser model) Intel Celeron with only 400MHz and 512MB Mem total. Before I upgraded debian to squeeze I used Xen, now its time to use OpenVZ.
Reasons:
– My tiny hardware:)
– Container virtualization – I can use more virtual machines
– Less memory usage – Container cannot boot
OpenVZ kernel and the vzctl and vzquota packages are available in the Debian repositories, so we can install them as follows:
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