Setting up your own SSH tunnels can be useful in a variety of ways. One such use is using SSH to tunnel your web traffic through a remote machine. This can be useful if you want to access a particular resource that is only available from that machine (e.g. your home router’s web interface) or [...]
Linux login scripts can be useful in a variety of ways. You can run certain tasks or run a few commands to display some system information when you first log in. A few examples might be: Sending an email when the root user logs in, displaying system load and uptime information, or running a scheduled [...]
Directory services are integral to any business. They allow you to have a central authentication platform and provide you with an interface to enforce software policies and various other configurations. In many cases businesses are forced to use the sometimes costly Microsoft Active Directory for their directory services and domain controllers because they are unaware [...]
As primarily a Linux user, I’m spoiled by the availability of virtual desktops on Linux. Having all your applications open on a single desktop can sometimes be cumbersome. With virtual desktops, you can greatly increase your productivity and organization by giving you the ability to move applications and windows to different desktops. Using virtual desktops, [...]
Creating your own home media center is every hobbyist’s dream. Having a system where you can listen to your music collection, watch movies, and browse pictures from the comfort of your living room is a great addition to your home. With XBMC, you can bring that dream to life. XBMC is an award-winning free and [...]
Keeping a version history of your configuration files is every administrator’s dream. Knowing that you have a complete history of all of your configuration files makes it really easy for system administrators to sleep well at night knowing that if anything goes wrong, they can simply roll back their configuration to an earlier date. This [...]
Executing system/shell commands from PHP/Apache can be useful in many situations. It can allow us to develop dynamic web applications that utilize powerful command-line utilities in order to do a particular task or function. It can also be useful in automating system administration tasks for someone who is more familiar with PHP. Since Apache does [...]
In most enterprise environments, desktop locking is a part of group policy and adds to the security of your network by ensuring that a passer-by can’t use your workstation for nefarious purposes. BlueProximity/BlueLock are the perfect programs to help increase this security to your desktop. It does so by detecting one of your bluetooth devices, [...]
In some cases, you might find yourself wanting to forward all of your computer’s audio to another machine. This can be useful in a variety of situations. Maybe you want to play a quick song using your desktop PC’s powerful speakers rather than on your sub-par laptop speakers, or maybe you want to wirelessly setup [...]
From the recent survey’s, 80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc.And in the age of Web 2.0, most of the time will be spend upon increasing the performance of your website [...]
