I have started to use .local dns extension for my local network. After changing my complete network configuration I realized that some of my Ubuntu machines can resolve the FQDNs ending with .local (Ex: testhost.digitalpains.local ) correctly. ali@advance17:/home/ali$ ping testhost.digitalpains.local ping: unknown host testhost.digitalpains.local   ali@advance17:/home/ali$ ping testhost PING testhost.feasiblesolutions.local (192.168.7.2) 56(84) bytes of data. [...]

There are different options for automatically updating your server. At this article we will use the unattended-upgrades package. We will start with installing the unattended-upgrades package. kok@fhome:~$ sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades After installing the unattended-upgrades package we need to add  the text below to the  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic file. APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists “1″; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages “1″; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval “5″; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade “1″; [...]

Ruby on Rails distributed with GEM packaging system. If you are installing Rails on Ubuntu probably you will end up using Ubuntu packaging system and GEM in combination. For a proper installation you need to do series of actions. A friend of mine, Umur Ozkul, has written an article for Rails Installation. It is written [...]

With every new kernel update, you receive another boot loader menu item. It will also eat up space from your /boot partition. If you don’t want your /boot partition to be filled up, then you need to remove some of the old kernels. How do we do it? First let’s get the list of kernels [...]

If you use date command without any parameter, it will print the current date and time. [root@centos ~]# date Thu Jan 7 18:33:48 CET 2010 You can use the same command to set/change your system date and time. Notation for this usage as listed below. date MMDDhhmmYYYYY Let’s say that we would like to set [...]

Timezone information for your system is defined in the /etc/localtime file. By changing this file you can change time zone for your server. You don’t need to modify this file manually. /usr/share/zoneinfo/ folder contains time zone files you would need. Let’s say that we want set the time zone for our server to Europe/Amsterdam. Then [...]

If you are producing documents in different languages then probably you would like to install dictionaries for different languages. Today I needed to install Dutch spell-checker on my Ubuntu system. Ubuntu provides packages for supporting different languages. With following command you can list all the support packages. sudo apt-cache search openoffice.org-l10n-* For Dutch language support [...]

I have an Ubuntu Virtualization Server which I have been using for a quite some time. Now that Ubuntu 9.10 released I would like to upgrade it to the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic release. First you need to install the update-manager-core package. kok@fhome:~$ sudo apt-get install update-manager-core After installing the update-manager-core package, complete upgrade procedure is [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 installation by default enables the IPv6 and if you are having performance problems with Firefox it is quite likely that it can be solved by disabling IPv6. You can disable IPv6 at Firefox level or kernel level. For the necessary step here is a nice article you can follow. Tweet This Post

Today we will build a TorrentFlux appliance. This appliance is one of my early works. Tweet This Post