Abstract: Online banking is becoming a very popular way to satisfy our banking needs and this even includes people with no or very little technical background. There are numerous advantages when doing banking transactions online, such as 24/7 bank opening hours, ability to make transactions from anywhere in the world and convenience. The only problem is that we do not take our secured home PC e...

Running Linux system inside a chroot environment allows a system admin to decrease an impact on a production server when the server gets compromised.  Change root will change root directory to all current running processes and its children to a chroot jail. Testing of various package installations and server configuration in a chrooted environment can be another handy way how to utilize a c...

This short article describes the quick and easy way on how to customize, build and install Linux kernel under Debian or Ubuntu Linux. First, we will install all prerequisites then download kernel source. Next step will be customization and as a last step we will create and install a Debian package with new Customized Linux kernel. Prerequisites Let's start with first step which is installation...

This article briefly describes an installation of mediatomb media server on linux Debian / Ubuntu system and quick setup for Playstation 3 streaming. Install a mediatomb media server First we need to install mediatomb media server: apt-get install mediatomb vlc Create a .mediatomb directory within your home directory: mkdir ~/.mediatomb create a ~/.mediatomb/config.xml with with a fol...

Install prerequisites jdownloader is a great tool to download file from share websites like rapidshare.com and many more. Here are simple steps on how to install jdownloader on Ubuntu or Debian Linux distributions: First install all prerequisites: apt-get install openjdk-6-jre sun-java6-jre default-jre \ zenity default-jre-headles sun-java6-bin \ openjdk-6-jre-headless for jdownloader to...

Here is a small skeleton on how to set /etc/network/interfaces file to connect Debian or Ubuntu to a wireless network. NOTE: Use iwconfig command to find a name of your wireless interface. In this example we use wlan0 as a target network device. Static network interface: auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 10.1.1.60 netmask 255.0.0.0 network 10.0.0.0 br...

There are more and more Laptops nowadays which do not have a CD/DVD-ROM facility build in but are able to boot from USB memory stick. This small guide provides all needs on how to create a bootable USB memory stick to install a Debian without a need for CD/DVD drive. Before you continue make sure that you have backed up all your data from your USB memory stick. After completing this guide your U...

  Recently I have tried to open a wmv file ( Microsoft ASF ) using vlc. vlc failed to open video stream so I tried couple more linux based video players in hope that I will get more lucky with mplayer, mencoder ( convert only ) or xine ( error messages are attached at the end of this document ). There are four major different types of wmv file format. wmv 1 format: is supported by all video p...

Here are simple steps on how to install custom build or existing Debian kernel within a chroot environment. In this example we do not install a new version of Debian in chroot environment but we use the existing installation. Let's create directory for a chroot environment: Make directory # mkdir -p /mnt/chroot First we need to mount a partition with existing Debian installation. In our ...

xine was unable to initialize audio drivers error message is an issue which bothers me for long time alredy. I have a feeling that it is not related to only debian lenny but Ubuntu is also affected with this bug.  To be honest I do not know the real cause of this problem. My suspicion is that xine dies when using combination of my skype and amarok although I can not prove it as well as I can not ...

dpkg -l List all installed packages. EXAMPLES: dpkg returns a number of installed packages: $ dpkg -l | wc -l 1209 ask dpkg to return only packages related to php. This will include installed and non-installed packages: $ dpkg -l *php* Using dpkg with grep to see only installed packages dpkg -l | grep php dpkg -L <package> dpkg -L will show whether the package is installed. I...

Recently I was tempted to have a look on OpenCV project and Oreilly’s book “Learning OpenCV” This is a great book and it assumes some basic C programming skills. However, it is not specific to any platform when it comes to compiling and running program examples. Here is a very short start with Ubuntu 9.04 Let’s start with installation of some useful packages into our ubuntu system: apt...

Installation prerequisites It is said that the installation of Debian Linux is know as one of the hardest among all Linux Distributions. In this article we will see that this is just a myth, in fact it is very easy, even for beginners. All you need is basic understanding of disk partitioning techniques and a downloaded/burned netinstall image which suits the hardware architecture you intend to i...

Author: Lubos Rendek Introduction This guide will provide all necessary steps on how to create, bundle, upload, run and connect Debian ETCH AMI on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). For this guide we have used a Ubuntu 9.04. However, any other Linux distribution can also be used as long as it contains java and ruby packages. For more information about Amazon EC2 read  here. Th...

                    Install Prerequisites apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18 kernel-package \ linux-patch-bootsplash bootsplash libc6-dev Patching Linux kernel Uncompress Linux Kernel Source cd /usr/src tar xjf linux-source-2.6.18.tar.bz2 Patch Kernel with linux-patch-bootsplash Now we need to patch Linux kernel with linux-patch-bootspl...