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How to Convert PDF to HTML/XML/PNG in Linux

Here’s a quick howto on converting PDF files into HTML file. PDFtoHTML linux tool converts PDF files into multiple file formats like HTML, XML, and PNG images. By default usage, the output is written to current working folder. PDFtoHTML linux tool is based on XPDF version 3.00. PDFtoHTML PDF converter tool is part of poppler-utils [...]

How to Determine RedHat and Fedora release version

A quick blog post on how to determine your Fedora release name and its release version. For several years of staying and working under a company with multiple linux distributions and versions, multiple OS upgrades and server redundcancy backups makes it somehow confusing and difficult to differentiate which release name and version was a specific [...]

How to Convert JPG Image Files to MPG Video Files

What is Kipi? Kipi (KDE Image Plugin Interface) is an effort to develop a common plugin structure for Digikam, KimDaBa, Showimg and Gwenview. Its aim is to share image plugins among graphic applications. Kipi is based on the old digiKam plugins implementation and is maintened by digiKam team. One binary that is part of installing [...]

How to Highlight Matching Grep Results in Linux

Here’s a quick entry on how to have a highlighted and colored text from grep resulting strings and characters. Assuming we have /var/log/maillog and we wish to grep it with multiple search strings. Well this would be faily simply # cat /var/log/secure | grep ‘Accept\|refuse’ What if we want to make resulting matching grep strings [...]

Tips to Avoid Spyware and Virus’s

Pay Attention and Read The biggest problem is that most people do not bother to read the fine print, which is where a lot of companies can get you. Taking the extra 30 seconds to read the fine print can save you hours and hundreds of dollars (which would be spent fixing the computer). First [...]

Converting from Windows to Linux: Hard drives NTFS to Ext3

Introduction Recently I undertaken the task to convert over to the Linux Operating System. After searching the Internet and reading through many tutorials it became clear that the NTFS File-System is not compatible with Linux other than being Read from. At least not with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Release. There in created another task for me, [...]

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Evaluator’s Guide

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Windows Internet Explorer 8 is the next version of the world’s most popular browser that optimizes developer and end-user experiences to provide a window to the Web of online services. Moreover, Internet Explorer 8 offers new features and functionality that enable customers to reach beyond the page in more [...]

How to Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive

WHY INSTALL FROM USB FLASH DRIVE? Why would someone want to install a client OS from a thumb drive instead of a DVDROM or over the network?  One reason:  Performance.  Installing Windows Vista from a high speed USB flash drive is in my experience the easiest & fastest way to complete a Windows Vista install.  This is much [...]

How to install Filezilla 3.0

As we all know, Filezilla has been around for quite some time and had proven to be very stable, flexibile and reliable FTP linux application – with multiple major features a FTP user is seeking for. Filezilla does not only transfer files using the traditional file transfer mode, but it makes use of multi-threading live [...]

Rsyslog – Most Advanced Log Server

Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, syslog/tcp, fine grain output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations and the ability to filter on any message part. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it suitable for [...]

Fedora 9: How to bind Sendmail to Multiple IP Address

By default sendmail installation, it binds itself to localhost IP address, which is 127.0.0.1 . Now, if you have any other ethernet interface and you wish to bind your sendmail with this interface, read on. Fedora 9: Bind Sendmail to Multiple Ethernet Interface Backup and modify /etc/mail/sendmail.mc with a similar sendmail directive shown below DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=your-ethernet-IP-here, [...]

How To See Invisible YM Users using Linux

Yahoo messenger from Yahoo! is one of the most commonly installed messenger on windows-based desktop systems, besides from MSN messenger, which comes as a default windows messenger from windows OS. In Linux world, there are variety of all around chat/voice messengers available. From the default GNOME GAIM messenger, now known as Pidgin, there’s also Kopete [...]

How To Setup and Install Robusts and Highly Configurable BackupPC

Considering the high-end rising PCs and storage capacity nowadays, it is now practical and cost effective to do backup management and administration to server’s local or network storage disk, not like decades ago where you would buy a very costly tape backup drive to backup small enteprise scaled data. This is where we cover BackupPC. [...]

How To Limit Denial of Service Attacks to Sendmail

Whenever a sendmail receives SMTP request and connection from a remote host, it spawn’s a new copy of itself to deal with incoming mail messages. This approach makes it useful for sendmail to process multiple incoming mails simultaneously. However, the nature of linux application always comes with a trade off thing. This issue of spawning [...]

How To Allow and Deny SSH Access To Selected Hosts and IP Addresses

With default OpenSSH installation, SSH allows access to any clients. This retriction can be configured to allow SSH access only to certain hosts and IP addresses to decrease unauthorized SSH login attempts to known and particular computer hosts and IP addresses only. SSH Access Restrictions via TCP Wrapper Step One 1. Backup and modify /etc/hosts.allow [...]