Ubuntu Unleashed

This is a simply yet effective way I personally add/remove packages in ubuntu when I change distro's and need to reinstall everything other than aptoncd which I have an article for, my site search will bring it up searching for "aptoncd". Basically the idea is to add all your favorite packages to a text file and install them all with a simple command as well as removing them:

simply make a text file with packages you like after you add the right repositories, I simply:

echo "deb repository.com repo/">>/etc/apt/sources.list

I just found a new tool called regexxer, im sure it has been around for a while but I just discovered it.
regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.
simply apt-get install regexxer

Remastersys will 'remaster' your existing Ubuntu based distro into a live cd/DVD. Tools like PCLinuxOS's mklivecd have been around a while and proved to be very popular but are tricky to get working with the newer releases of debian/ubuntu, so some guy (apologies, forgot your name) over at Linux Mint (an ubuntu-based distribution) made this really cool tool. And although it has only really been in popular use since about March this year, it has already been compared to the maturity of mklivecd.
Install:
Add the Linux Mint repo to your /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository romeo/" >>/etc/apt/sources.list
do a "sudo apt-get update"
then:
"sudo apt-get install remastersys" and it should install fine.

Then simply type "sudo remastersys" to get the list of options, which include:
backup - backs up your system including your /home folder with your users on it.

dist - omits the /home folder thus making it a distributable cd that you can give to your friends.

clean - removes the temporary folder that was created, including the new iso so burn it and copy it elsewhere before you run "sudo remastersys clean"

Well the long awaited Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Beta is released with a TON of bug fixes,
Check it out and please post the bug fixes on launchpad!
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Download Sites

Download

Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at:

• http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10 (Ubuntu)
  http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/7.10 (Kubuntu)
  http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/7.10 (Edubuntu)
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.10/beta (Xubuntu)

Local mirrors are also available:

Europe

• http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (Sweden)

• http://nl.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (The Netherlands)

• http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/linux/ubuntu-releases/7.10 (The Netherlands)

• http://ie.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (Ireland)

• http://it.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (Italy)

• http://gb.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (Great Britain)

• http://de.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (Germany)

• http://fr.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (France)

Asia/Pacific

• http://tw.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (Taiwan)

Africa

• http://za.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (South Africa)

North America

• http://ca.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (Canada)

• http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/7.10 (United States)

You should always upgrade your bios like you do software because it provides underlying support for your hardware, this is a quick & easy howto to guide you through the process...

The Dell firmware-tools project provides easy method of BIOS and firmware update.

Packages for firmware-tools and firmware-addon-dell for Debian and Ubuntu are under construction. Here is the main firmware-tools page: BIOS and Firmware Updates

BIOS Update Process for Debian/Ubuntu:


Install libsmbios

# apt-get update (not always necessary)
# apt-get install libsmbios-bin

Get the System ID

# getSystemId
Libsmbios: 0.12.1
System ID: 0x019D
Service Tag: J5TJV71
Express Service Code: 41710831021
Product Name: Dimension 3000
BIOS Version: A03
Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
Is Dell: 1

Download the latest BIOS ".HDR" file for this system.
Go here: http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bios-hdrs/
The directory will be named: system_bios_ven_0x1028_dev_SYSTEM_ID_version_BIOS_VERSION. Go into this directory and download the file, "bios.hdr".
ctrl-f and search for your system id, mine is 0x019D; and grab the latest version
load the dell_rbu driver

# modprobe dell_rbu

Update the bios

# dellBiosUpdate -u -f ./bios.hdr-2.3.2
Supported RBU type for this system: (MONOLITHIC)
Using RBU v2 driver. Initializing Driver.
Setting RBU type in v2 driver to: MONOLITHIC
Prep driver for data load.
Writing RBU data (4096bytes/dot): ............................
..............................................................
.......................
Notify driver data is finished.
Activate CMOS bit to notify BIOS that update is ready on next boot.
Update staged sucessfully. BIOS update will occur on next reboot.

Reboot the system

save your work and type:
sudo reboot
Once you boot up, your system will auto-clear your bios and update the bios

Well, prefetching isnt a new topic but there is possibility that it can be optimized into the next generation of computing...

I found an interesting Google SoC Project page that shows some promise, ive been searching around for prefetching and ReadyBoost solutions for Ubuntu and ran accross this...

From here:
In todays computer systems the main bottleneck is not CPU but disk access which is several orders of magnitude slower than CPU and memory. In such circumstances the way to improve application performance is to prefetch data it needs from disk before it even requests it and it is the point of prefetching techniques.
The example of prefetching solution is Windows prefetcher.


Here is a little bit from their thesis:

"In this thesis we develop preload, a daemon that prefetches binaries and shared libraries
from the hard disk to main memory on desktop computer systems, to achieve faster
application start-up times. Preload is adaptive: it monitors applications that the user
runs, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications she might run in the near
future, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory.
We build a Markov-based probabilistic model capturing the correlation between every
two applications on the system. The model is then used to infer the probability that each
application may be started in the near future. These probabilities are used to choose
files to prefetch into the main memory. Special care is taken to not degrade system
performance and only prefetch when enough resources are available.
Preload is implemented as a user-space application running on Linux 2.6 systems."

Howto test optimizations:
*Warning* This is experimental and I have not tested this yet, I am about to once im done posting this, This may or may not be correct, let me know of any issues!

The following is an edited version of there wiki located here

Testing Boot Prefetching and Applications Prefetching

Introduction

First testing version of kernel with automatic boot prefetching and tracing is available. This version is precompiled for Debian-based systems (tested on Ubuntu Gutsy, other distributions might not work). The kernel is standard Ubuntu kernel with these prefetch patches.
Standard disclaimer applies: this is experimental version, it might damage your system use at your own risk and only on systems where you have backups.
*This Requires Ubuntu Gutsy*
Installation
In order to use kernel with prefetching:
Download kernel linux-image deb
Download linux-headers.deb
Install linux-image deb package
Install linux-headers deb package
Remove readahead package using: sudo apt-get remove --purge readahead -
please note that this will cause removing (x/k/edu)ubuntu-desktop package.
Download userspace prefetch support deb and install it using:
dpkg -i prefetch*.deb
Now reboot and select "kernel 2.6.22.6pf.3" during boot.
Uninstallation
In order to remove kernel with prefetching:
Reboot into standard (non-prefetching) kernel.
Remove prefetch userspace support files using apt-get remove --purge prefetch
Install readahead and (x/k/edu)ubuntu-desktop package.
Remove linux-image package with prefetching support (with "pf" in name).
Resources:
Launchpad Project
Summer Of Code 2007 Progress
Development Discussions
Google Code Page

With these simple directions you'll be able to use a USB pen prive as an additional swap. As a result, the pen drive will be used in the same way Windows Vista does through the ReadyBoost functionality.

1) Plug the pen drive in your usb slot, usually in front of your tower or side/back of your laptop.
2) Ubuntu should auto-mount the device (usually in /media/usbdisk*), umount the device (ie., sudo umount /media/usbdisk);
3) Find your usb device in your terminal by typing sudo df -h; in this example we will use /dev/sda1
4) sudo mkswap /dev/sda1 (assuming /dev/sda1 is the correct device for the connected usb device)
5) sudo swapon -p 32767 /dev/sda1

Ok now you are using the usb device for swap; when your ram is exhausted it will start using your usb device for ram

To verify that everything is working correctly do a;
cat /proc/swaps
This is the output I recieve on my Desktop;
/dev/sda5 partition 1646620 33952 -1

Just a note:
You will not recieve the same performance as ram, it all depends on the speed of your usb disk, you will notice a big difference in running games, development studio's, audio/video editing and memory hogs like firefox/openoffice.

To turn ReadyBoost for Ubuntu off in a terminal type:
sudo swapoff /dev/sda1

The OpenXML Translator provides support for opening and saving Microsoft* OpenXML-formatted word processing documents (.docx) in OpenOffice.org. So now we all can use the docx extention *yay* although im not very happy about this, id rather have hundreds of companies use *.odf and do away with this addon all together but... This is hot for those that like to use Microsh!t document formats...

Install:
1. echo "deb http://ubuntu.org.ua/ getdeb/" >>/etc/apt/sources.list
2. apt-get update
3. apt-get install odf-converter

or simply download here

Note:You must restart OpenOffice Writer to get the option available on the Load/Save document dialogs.

If you need support for windows or SUSE® Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux, and openSUSE check out the developer's download site here

My friend Luca Cappelletti is kicking ass rolling out yet another fine release for mobile or non-root users or people that just want to download a program and start running it without wasting time installing a thing.

ioMozilla Sunbird® is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. Our goal is to bring Mozilla-style ease-of-use to your calendar, without tying you to a particular storage solution.

pic by markcarson.com

Luca has told me he has modified Sunbird to have the ease of use and look of Apple iCal, stay tuned for screenshots from me! Or beat me to it and post em :)

Easy install:
Simply grab ioSunbird here
chmod +x ioCalendarSunbird0.5-feisty_InfodomesticObjects0.8.6
or simply right click on the file to change properties to executable.
mv oCalendarSunbird0.5-feisty_InfodomesticObjects0.8.6 ioCalendarSunbird
or right click rename :)
Then double click or ./ioCalendarSunbird

Check this out, same great Gftp client but without the headache of installing, this is another InfomesticObjects Linux Release.

Benefits:
Easily access ftp sites on the go or run gftp without installing at a computer with no root privileges.

Here is Gftp's Main Features:

ioOpera9.23 is a recompilation of Opera for Infodomestic Objects Linux. It is developed and tested under Ubuntu Linux, and can be run with just one click without installation on your system."

Benefits:
Faster than Opera
Same as Opera
None-root Users can download and run Opera
Secure
Something new
Same benefits of Opera just no install needed

ioOpera is secure as well, since it runs in ram, so you dont have to worrie about people sn00ping your browser history. Apon reboot all history is gone.
Howto:
Download here
chmod +x ioOpera9.23_InfodomesticObjects0.8.7
mv ioOpera9.23_InfodomesticObjects0.8.7 ioOpera
./ioOpera
or simply double click to run :)

ioPidgin is the same great application for non-root users or people that dont like to install all the libraries and compile from scratch. You dont have to apt-get a thing. This one simple file is all you need and dont worrie about installing since it is already installed in the file :)


"ioPidgin is a recompilation of Pidgin 2.2 for Infodomestic Objects Linux. It is developed and tested under Ubuntu Linux, and can be run with just one click without installation on your system."

ioPidgin is secure as well, since it runs in ram.

Howto:
Download here
chmod +x ioPidgin2.2-feisty_InfodomesticObjects0.8.7
mv ioPidgin2.2-feisty_InfodomesticObjects0.8.7 ioPidgin
./ioPidgin
or double click on the executable :)

check out my screenshot

Wow, I just found another truly unique application that runs fast as hell right from memory and does not require root access to install, so you non-root users can download this single file and you dont have to install a thing, it runs straight from ram and /tmp and believe it or not, it is faster than amarok because it is all pre-linked. No compiling, installing or anything is necessary.

This is for mobile users that use flash drives as well...
"Does not require KDElibs nor
QTlibs nor any mp3/4 adaptor."!

"ioAmarok is a recompilation of Amarok 1.47 for Infodomestic Objects Linux. It is developed and tested under Ubuntu Linux, and can be run with just one click without installation on your system."
ioAmarok is secure as well, since it runs in ram.

Howto:
Download here
chmod +x ioAmarok1.4.7-feisty_InfodomesticObjects0.8.7
mv ioAmarok1.4.7-feisty_InfodomesticObjects0.8.7 ioAmarok
./ioAmarok

If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the following steps

Turn your computer on.

Press ESC at the grub prompt.

Press e for edit.

Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e

Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash

press enter, then press b to boot your system.

Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.

Type in passwd username

Set your password.

Type in reboot

If this doesnt work you can alternatively try this:

Turn on your computer, and as soon as you the Press Esc to enter grub message, press the escape key.

Select the option that says (recovery mode).

Your PC will boot into a shell. Once you get a command prompt, type "passwd username" where the username is your username.

Enter a new password when prompted, and again when prompted again

Type reboot to reboot your system

Another way is to boot into the system via a live cd open up Applications->Accessories->Terminal
then mount your ubuntu drive if its on /dev/sda1 do this:
mount /dev/sda1/ /media/sda1
Then we chroot into the system:
chroot /media/sda1
passwd user
Now change the password, and reboot your box!

Now, a short description. KernelCheck is a project that is designed to easily build the latest kernel for your distribution using the instructions provided in the Master Kernel Thread. This automated process is a fork of AutoKernel by Robert Wolterman (xtacocorex), Timothy Janssen (mentok), and Kristof Verbeken (PinguinZ). KernelCheck is currently under the GNU Public License.

Installation

1. Download KernelCheck
   
   Download it here (recommended)
   OR
   
   Code:

   wget http://kcheck.sourceforge.net/pool/latest-stable/kernelcheck-latest.tar.gz

2. Unpack the archive
   
   Code:

   tar -xzf kernelcheck-*.tar.gz

3. Install KernelCheck
   
   Code:

   cd kernelcheck-*

   Code:

   sudo python setup.py install

4. Use it
   
   Code:

   kernelcheck

1. Comparing your kernel with the latest from kernel.org
2. Making fun of the Master Kernel Thread because it might be outdated
3. Automatically downloading, compiling, and installing the latest kernel

kernelcheck

• Added safe halt support (signal trapping) in both stages
• Added network test (thanks to walkerk)
• Added support for background processes
• KernelCheck will not freeze anymore EXCEPT on security updates
• Added security update ability

Damn!, just found a sweet application on getdeb.net, its truly chillin for you dj's out there and people that like to mess around with beats like I do. It looks like you can now create great music with Ubuntu Linux. Check it...

LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, having more fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more...

How to Install:
1. open up a terminal
2. sudo -s
3. echo "deb http://ubuntu.org.ua/ getdeb/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
4. apt-get install lmms
5. Launch

Or if you want the latest version grab the subversion installation instructions here
Resources:
Wiki & tips/tricks

If you download your movies and tv series only as scene releases, then you'll have to extract the release's video file from its multiple rar files. That can take some time... Not a horrible long time. You can live with it... But I learned a cool thing and thought I could share it just because I have nothing better to do...

You'll need the packages "unrar" and "vlc" (or "mplayer" or any other video player you may prefer).
Write this in a terminal if you haven't got the required packages:

This guide intends to show how to successfully compile a fully featured svn mplayer with all the codecs and with the GUI player gmplayer. It is a bit of a difficult one so make a cup of tea and get your keyboard ready!!

Firstly install subversion, compiling tools and checkinstall and secondly download the svn mplayer plus the full codec pack:

Do you want to browse your iPhones’ filesystem on your Ubuntu machine? Follow these instructions and you’ll have it working in no time flat.

This article assumes your iPhone is “out of jail” and has Installer.app installed. If you have not already gotten this part taken care of, click here for steps you need to follow first.

1. Install SSH on your phone by the following proceedure:
2. Tap the Installer on your home screen.
3. Install the following utilities:
* Community Sources
* BSD Subsystem
* OpenSSH
4. Once your iPhone has these installed, find your IP address by going into Settings, Wi-Fi and then click the blue arrow next to the network your iPhone and your Ubuntu machine are on.
5. Turn off Auto-Lock on your iPhone, which will interrupt the OpenSSH server by going into Settings, General and Auto-Lock. Set Auto-Lock to never.
6. Now, on your Ubuntu machine, simply click on Places, Connect to Server and follow these screenshots:
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10.

You’re in! Now upload ringtones, compile hello world, slice dice and serve http via apache - whatever floats your boat.

lsof

lsof is the Linux/Unix über-tool. I use it most for getting network connection related information from a system, but that's just the beginning for this amazing and little-known application. The tool is aptly called lsof because it "lists open files". And remember, in Unix just about everything (including a network socket) is a file.



** lsof is also the Linux/Unix command with the most switches. It has so many it has to use both pluses and minuses.

usage: [-?abhlnNoOPRstUvV] [+|-c c] [+|-d s] [+D D] [+|-f[cgG]]
[-F [f]] [-g [s]] [-i [i]] [+|-L [l]] [+|-M] [-o [o]]
[-p s] [+|-r [t]] [-S [t]] [-T [t]] [-u s] [+|-w] [-x [fl]] [--] [names]

As you can see, lsof has a truly staggering number of options. You can use it to get information about devices on your system, what a given user is touching at any given point, or even what files or network connectivity a process is using. lsof replaces my need for both netstat and ps entirely. It has everthing I get from those tools and much, much more.

Show Your Network Connections
Show all connections with -i
lsof -i

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
dhcpcd 6061 root 4u IPv4 4510 UDP *:bootpc
sshd 7703 root 3u IPv6 6499 TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
sshd 7892 root 3u IPv6 6757 TCP 10.10.1.5:ssh->192.168.1.5:49901 (ESTABLISHED)


Show only TCP (works the same for UDP)
lsof -iTCP

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
sshd 7703 root 3u IPv6 6499 TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
sshd 7892 root 3u IPv6 6757 TCP 10.10.1.5:ssh->192.168.1.5:49901 (ESTABLISHED)


-i :port shows all networking related to a given port
lsof -i :22

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
sshd 7703 root 3u IPv6 6499 TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
sshd 7892 root 3u IPv6 6757 TCP 10.10.1.5:ssh->192.168.1.5:49901 (ESTABLISHED)


To show connections to a specific host, use @host
lsof -i@192.168.1.5

sshd 7892 root 3u IPv6 6757 TCP 10.10.1.5:ssh->192.168.1.5:49901 (ESTABLISHED)


Show connections based on the host and the port using @host:port
lsof -i@192.168.1.5:22

sshd 7892 root 3u IPv6 6757 TCP 10.10.1.5:ssh->192.168.1.5:49901 (ESTABLISHED)


Grepping for "LISTEN" shows what ports your system is waiting for connections on
lsof -i| grep LISTEN

iTunes 400 daniel 16u IPv4 0x4575228 0t0 TCP *:daap (LISTEN)


Grepping for "ESTABLISHED" shows current active connections
lsof -i| grep ESTABLISHED

firefox-b 169 daniel 49u IPv4 0t0 TCP 1.2.3.3:1863->1.2.3.4:http (ESTABLISHED)



Working with Users, Processes, and Files

You can also get information on various users, processes, and files on your system using lsof:
Show what a given user has open using -u
lsof -u daniel

-- snipped --
Dock 155 daniel txt REG 14,2 2798436 823208 /usr/lib/libicucore.A.dylib
Dock 155 daniel txt REG 14,2 1580212 823126 /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
Dock 155 daniel txt REG 14,2 2934184 823498 /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.0.4.dylib
Dock 155 daniel txt REG 14,2 132008 823505 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
Dock 155 daniel txt REG 14,2 212160 823214 /usr/lib/libauto.dylib
-- snipped --


See what files and network connections a command is using with -c
lsof -c syslog-ng

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
syslog-ng 7547 root cwd DIR 3,3 4096 2 /
syslog-ng 7547 root rtd DIR 3,3 4096 2 /
syslog-ng 7547 root txt REG 3,3 113524 1064970 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
syslog-ng 7547 root mem REG 0,0 0 [heap]
syslog-ng 7547 root mem REG 3,3 105435 850412 /lib/libpthread-2.4.so
syslog-ng 7547 root mem REG 3,3 1197180 850396 /lib/libc-2.4.so
syslog-ng 7547 root mem REG 3,3 59868 850413 /lib/libresolv-2.4.so
syslog-ng 7547 root mem REG 3,3 72784 850404 /lib/libnsl-2.4.so
syslog-ng 7547 root mem REG 3,3 32040 850414 /lib/librt-2.4.so
syslog-ng 7547 root mem REG 3,3 126163 850385 /lib/ld-2.4.so
-- snipped --


Pointing to a file shows what's interacting with that file
lsof /var/log/messages

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
syslog-ng 7547 root 4w REG 3,3 217309 834024 /var/log/messages


The -p switch lets you see what a given process ID has open, which is good for learning more about unknown processes
lsof -p 10075

-- snipped --
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 34808 850407 /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 34924 850409 /lib/libnss_nis-2.4.so
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 26596 850405 /lib/libnss_compat-2.4.so
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 200152 509940 /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 46216 510014 /usr/lib/liblber-2.3
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 59868 850413 /lib/libresolv-2.4.so
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 1197180 850396 /lib/libc-2.4.so
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 22168 850398 /lib/libcrypt-2.4.so
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 72784 850404 /lib/libnsl-2.4.so
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 70632 850417 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3
sshd 10068 root mem REG 3,3 9992 850416 /lib/libutil-2.4.so
-- snipped --


The -t option returns just a PID
lsof -t -c Mail

350

ps aux | grep Mail

daniel 350 0.0 1.5 405980 31452 ?? S Mon07PM 2:50.28 /Applications/Mail.app



Advanced Usage

Using-a allows you to combine search terms, so the query below says, "show me everything running as daniel connected to 1.1.1.1"
lsof -a -u daniel -i @1.1.1.1

bkdr 1893 daniel 3u IPv6 3456 TCP 10.10.1.10:1234->1.1.1.1:31337 (ESTABLISHED)


Using the -t and -c options together you can HUP processes
kill -HUP `lsof -t -c sshd`

You can also use the -t with -u to kill everything a user has open
kill -9 `lsof -t -u daniel`

lsof +L1 shows you all open files that have a link count less than 1, often indicative of a cracker trying to hide something
lsof +L1

(hopefully nothing)



Conclusion

This primer just scratches the surface of lsof's functionality. For a full reference, run man lsof or check out the online version. I hope this has been useful to you, and as always, comments and corrections are welcomed.


References

The lsof man page:
http://www.netadmintools.com/html/lsof.man.html



The original information for this is from: http://dmiessler.com/study/lsof/

Hey I dont do my own hosting but I found out a great hosting solution for ubuntu, check it out and let me know what you think..

Easy Hosting Control Panel is designed for hosting of multiple domains on single machine.
It uses LAMP(LinuxApacheMysqlPhp).
Its aim:easily installable,easy usage, non-complex,functional.

Why use a control panel? Because hosting a domain in an ubuntu/linux system requires many settings to be done. hosting control panel makes these tasks easy, with webbased interface.
hosting means putting web pages on the internet for general use, as you do now..

ehcp is the first control panel in this field with its unique features such as: complete php based, object oriented, opensource and free. even install is using php, so it is extremely easy to learn and extensible..

There are many free hosting control panels, but none of them have these features. some have non-opensource code, some other then php, some is not object oriented..

ehcp is in beta stage. there are many things to do. but the main skeleton is built in a straight forward way.

version 0.18.1 released !

feature overview:

* php and apt-get based simple install,
* automatically installs and works: dns, apache, mysql, ftp, email, domains,
* most easy install: copy & paste in console and watch
* ready to use after install - at ubuntu
* adodb and phpmyadmin included
* object oriented programming using php,
* easily extendable/modifiable...


future plans:
* reseller implementation (soon),
* subdomain implementation(soon),
* server/services status,
* different language support.. (currently english/turkish mixed)
* plugin system using php
* auto detection of apt-get and install if not present...

Installation:
simply copy and paste followin in your root console,

wget http://www.ehcp.net/ehcp_0.18.1.tgz
tar -zxvf ehcp_0.18.1.tgz
cd ehcp
./install.sh

You may find additional information at following project sites:
home page: www.ehcp.net
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ehcp/
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ehcp
http://code.google.com/p/ehcp/

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=180
http://www.freewebhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=4191
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...hreadid=519724
http://forum.iyibirisi.com/viewforum.php?f=3
http://forum.iyibirisi.com/viewforum.php?f=15

ehcp hosting control panel primarily supports ubuntu, tested on ubuntu 7.04lts
but virtually work on any other linux distributions with apt-get installed as well.

currently it supports linux'es only with apt-get.

in future, i will also add a feature so that it will detect and install apt-get automatically if not present. this is not the case now.

but. the control panel will always be focused and tested on ubuntu.
Ubuntu will be the primary platform for it.
in fact this is natural because Ubuntu is so easy to maintain...

you can find demo at: http://www.ehcp.net/demo
since it is demo, daemon is not running, if it runs, demo becomes real...
demo username: admin
pass: 1234


here is the developers information for your info/questions:
msn/email: bvidinli@iyibirisi.com
gmail/skype/yahoo: bvidinli

you may also find some info here:
http://forum.iyibirisi.com/viewforum.php?f=3
http://forum.iyibirisi.com/viewforum.php?f=15

You may or may not be aware that lithium ion batteries (like those present in the newer Thinkpad models) survive best when kept charged between 30%-85%. They should not be kept fully charged, and should be left off for long periods of time charged to ~%40. See here for more tips on Thinkpad battery treatment.

One way to extend the life of your Thinkpad's battery is to control the way it charges -- that is, to make sure that you keep it in the 30%-85% charged range whenever possible. This is possible easily and quickly through the tp_smapi kernel module.

(1) Download the tp_smapi code here. For the examples presented here, let's assume that you download the tarball to your home directory (~/):

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed.

Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other (e.g. a virtual machine for a mail server, a virtual machine for a high-traffic web site, another virtual machine that serves your customers' web sites, a virtual machine for DNS, etc.), but still use the same hardware. This saves money, and what is even more important, it's more secure. If the virtual machine of your DNS server gets hacked, it has no effect on your other virtual machines. Plus, you can move virtual machines from one Xen server to the next one.

[...]
#(network-script network-dummy)
[...]
(network-script network-bridge)
(vif-script vif-bridge)
[...]

[...]
loop max_loop=64

[...]
dir = /home/xen

dist   = edgy

gateway   = 192.168.0.1
netmask   = 255.255.255.0

passwd = 1

kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-4-server
initrd = /boot/initrd.img-2.6.19-4-server

mirror = http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
[...]

#
#  Configuration file for the Xen instance xen1.example.com, created on
# Tue Jun 26 12:50:50 2007.
#


#
#  Kernel + memory size
#
kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19-4-server'


ramdisk = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.19-4-server'

memory  = '64'


#
#  Disk device(s).
#
root    = '/dev/hda1 ro'

disk    = [ 'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/disk.img,hda1,w', 'file:/home/xen/domains/xen1.example.com/swap.img,hda2,w' ]

#
#  Hostname
#
name    = 'xen1.example.com'


#
#  Networking
#
vif  = [ 'ip=192.168.0.101' ]

#
#  Behaviour
#
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install the free VMware Server on an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

Build Environment

Make sure you have the needed build environment and tools to compile the vmware modules for the kernel.

aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential

aptitude install xinetd

Downloading VMware Server

Vmware Server can be downloaded from:

http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

After accepting the EULA grab the vmware server .tgz file (around 102MB).

Note: As of right now VMware Server won't compile correctly on Feisty without patching the vmmon file.

Patch information can be found here: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=76957&tstart=0

The patch can be downloaded here: http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz

Installing VMware Server

Untar the VMware Server package:

tar -xzf /Path/To/VMware-server-1.0.3-xxx.tar.gz

Change into the install directory:

cd vmware-server-distrib

Run the installer:

sudo vmware-install.pl

Choose defaults to questions until it asks:

Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

Enter no and quit the install. To install the patch cd back to your start directory:

cd ..

Untar the patch:

tar xvzf /Path/To/vmware-any-any-update109.tar.gz

Enter the directory:

cd vmware-any-any-update109

Run the patch script:

sudo ./runme.pl

It should prompt you to run vmware-config.pl, choose yes at this time. If it doesn't you can always run the config script manually:

sudo vmware-config.pl

Again you can hit enter to choose the defaults to all the questions, though you will probably want to manually choose which networking features you want. To access the server run

vmware

for the VMware Server Console.

Ok i am a member of sceneaccess.org a private bittorrent site for the underground scene, and I was stuck using transmission which is a decent client but I prefer Deluge. Here is a simple howto, to setup Deluge to spoof the client id to uTorrent...


First thing open up a Terminal and sudo -s and enter your sudo password

Then download Deluge to your home directory from here

Now we gotta download the correct libraries and tools to compile Deluge, copy/paste this:

apt-get install g++ make python-all-dev python-all python-dbus python-gtk2 python-xdg python-support libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-date-time-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-serialization-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev

tar zxvf deluge-0.5.5.tar.gz

cd deluge-0.5.5

Here is an interesting & fun video about the dell linux relationship :)

It seems OpenOffice.org has released a new version of there powerful software, their release candidate 3 is 2.3 according to there developer site. Here is a few download locations...
Direct Download Here
Download Linux rpm Here
Download Linux rpm with jre Here
Download Winblows Version Here
Download Winblows Version with jre Here
Release Notes

This release incorporate improvements from Google Summer of Code 2007, Myspace IM, and bug fixes.

This release includes enhancement on the XMPP protocol made by Andreas Monitzer during the Google Summer of Code for Adium, more information can be found on Adium page.

Another feature I really enjoy is the ability to revert to the old gaim layout. For instance, a new entry in the menu Buddy->Show allows you to show protocol icons in the buddy list, right-clicking the empty space in the formatting toolbar allows you to toggle back to the old "ungrouped" version.

Yet, much more is shipped with this release of pidgin. Here is the complete changelog:

Version 2.2.0 (09/13/2007):
http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.2.0

Libpurple:
* New protocol plugin: MySpaceIM (Jeff Connelly, Google Summer of
Code)
* XMPP enhancements. See
http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2007/07/soc-xmpp-update.php (Andreas
Monitzer, Google Summer of Code for Adium)
* Certificate management. Libpurple will validate certificates on
SSL-encrypted protocols (William Ehlhardt, Google Summer of Code)
* Some adjustments were made to fix sending messages when using
the MSN HTTP method. (Laszlo Pandy)
* Yahoo! Chat is fixed.
* Some AIM file transfer issues between Pidgin and other clients
have been fixed. (Kyryll A Mirnenko)
* Properly restore idle status and time for AIM and ICQ accounts
when they reconnect after being disconnected.

Pidgin:
* Insert Horizontal Rules and Strikethrough text from toolbar.
* Option to show protocol icons in the buddy list, from the
Buddies > Show menu. (Justin Heiner)
* Ability to build with native, non-X11 GTK+ on OSX. (Anders
Hasselqvist)
* Remember the 'Enable Sounds' setting for a conversation.
* Right-clicking the empty space in the formatting toolbar
allows you to toggle back to the old "ungrouped" version.
* Protocols supporting account registration via Pidgin now show
a descriptive checkbox instead of a vague "Register" button.
* Fixed a bug where a tab would be shown on single conversations
when tabs were disabled.

Finch:
* Per-conversation mute and logging options (accessible from the menu).

To download and install add these two lines to System-> Administration-> Software Sources-> Third Party Software:
deb http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multiverse
deb-src http://repository.debuntu.org/ feisty multiverse

Then refresh Synaptic or sudo apt-get update && apt-get install pidgin
There ya go :)

I have searched all over the web for an application/hack to do this and I finally found something since google's picasa doesnt do it yet which is sad...

Download F-Spot Here
open a terminal where you downloaded f-spot
apt-get install sqlite
dpkg -i f-spot*.deb
Then go to Applications-> Graphics-> F-Spot Photo Manager
Click on import to import your pictures, and select the picture album location.
Then once its done importing, you can then export pictures.

First to do this you must select the pictures you want exported by holding in ctrl and selecting the pictures with your mouse.

Then click File-> Export-> PicasaWeb...

Click Add next to gallery, and enter your picasa/google username and password.
Click OK

Now you can add album's, and export the photo's you selected, you can make them public or private when you click ok to export

I have known about this page for quite a while now, I think I decided not to share it because I hack peoples wep/wpa networks lol.. But anyways this site generates completely random Ultra High Security passwords that are generated just for you, the site never gives the same password twice and uses some extremely advanced scrambling technology to generate these passphrases.

Wep is easily crackable but if you use a stronger/longer password it may take longer to crack.

As for WPA, using an ultra secure password is pretty much uncrackable to my knowledge.

"Every time this page is displayed, our server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use:"

Here is a c/p from the site
What makes these perfect and safe?

Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again.

Also, because this page will only allow itself to be displayed over a snoop-proof and proxy-proof high-security SSL connection, and it is marked as having expired back in 1999, this page which was custom generated just now for you will not be cached or visible to anyone else.

Therefore, these password strings are just for you. No one else can ever see them or get them. You may safely take these strings as they are, or use chunks from several to build your own if you prefer, or do whatever you want with them. Each set displayed are totally, uniquely yours — forever.

The "Application Notes" section below discusses various aspects of using these random passwords for locking down wireless WEP and WPA networks, for use as VPN shared secrets, as well as for other purposes.

The "Techie Details" section at the end describes exactly how these super-strong maximum-entropy passwords are generated (to satisfy the uber-geek inside you).

Generate your Ultra Secure Password Here

Dell has released a custom "remastered" Ubuntu 7.04 installation CD ISO that can be used to install Ubuntu on an Inspiron 1420 or 530. The ISO automatically installs all of the drivers and fixes that are required to make Ubuntu fully functional on those systems.

Dell laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled currently ship with a regular Ubuntu 7.04 installation CD that can be used to reinstall the operating system from scratch after reformatting. Unfortunately, the default Ubuntu installation does not include the best drivers so dell has a new remastered custom ubuntu cd just for you.

The "remastered" installation ISO could also be used by Inspiron 1420 and 530 owners who didn't buy their laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled, but wish to install it themselves...

Dell Remastered Ubuntu 7.04 ISO

Dell Linux Engineering team has a remastered copy of the Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD available for download. It includes native system hardware support and many of the fixes listed below. The media will help you get the system installed and running with the necessary drivers.

The media has been created specifically to resolve issues on the following system:

• Inspiron E1505N
• Inspiron 1420N
• Inspiron 530N

Download Dell Ubuntu Image

DISCLAIMER: These images are both unofficial Dell recovery media. They are not officially Dell-supported. Do not call Dell Technical support with questions about this image, or software installed by this image, as they will not be able to help you. To get help, please send an email to the Dell linux-desktops mailing list.

• Latest Dell Install DVD Image
• Latest Dell Install CD Image

NOTE: After installation, be sure to update to the latest system software.

NOTE: The CD image has been modified to remove components such as OpenOffice to make room for additional Dell specific drivers and fixes.