Sparkleshare is a tool to synchronize your files in the cloud - like Dropbox or SpiderOak - but unlike these, Sparkleshare is open source and allows you to use your own server. Sparkleshare uses GIT so if you delete/modify some files by accident, you can easily revert the changes. You can use it with your own server, GitHub or Gitorious.
Read more »PlayOnLinux 3.8.12 has been released
PlayOnLinux 3.8.12 has been released here is some of the changes since the 3.8.11 version.
The following installers have been updated:
- Borderlands (clean-up)
- Bulletstorm (Wine version update)
- Dead Rising 2 (clean-up)
- Dragon Age 2 Demo (Wine version update and bug fix)
- Fallout 3 (installer rewritten from scratch)
- Fallout 3 - DLC (clean-up)
winetricks alpha 20110306 has been released
Dan Kegel has released WineTricks 20110306. Another fortnight, another Winetricks. Version 20110306-alpha has a slightly cleaned up gui, a handful of bugfixes and sha1sum updates, eight new games (crysis2_demo_mp, diablo2, dragonage, masseffect2_demo, penpenxmas, rayman2_demo, sammax301_demo, and secondlife), one new dll (dinput), and one new setting (vd=640x480).
Read more »Make Browsers Cache Static Files With mod_expires On Apache2 (Debian Squeeze)
This tutorial explains how you can configure Apache2 to set the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control HTTP header of static files (such as images, CSS and Javascript files) to a date in the future so that these files will be cached by your visitors' browsers.
Read more »Ubuntu 10.10 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 10.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.
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Android App Build Environment (Eclipse/Android SDK/PhoneGap) On Debian Squeeze
This tutorial describes how you can set up an development environment for building Android apps on a Debian Squeeze desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device.
Read more »Wine 1.3.15 Released
The Wine development release 1.3.15 is now available. What's new in this release. Support for changing network passwords. Reflection support in shader compiler. Tests no longer attempt to cope with Win9x behavior. A number of MSHTML and MSXML improvements. Various bug fixes.
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Unity To Get Overlay Scrollbars [Ubuntu 11.04]
Christian Giordano has announced that Unity will get overlay scrollbars. This means the scrollbars will not be visible until you move your mouse over the side where the scrollbar used to be.
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Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 Is Out [Screenshots And Video]
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal alpha 3 has just been released. We've already posted all the changes so if you're reading WebUpd8 daily you already know what's new, but as usual we'll do a recap of all the changes in Ubuntu 11.04 since alpha 2.
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Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (Debian Squeeze)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
Read more »Sekurigeldonoj de Fajrovulpo: 3.5.17 kaj 3.6.14, Tondrobirdo: 3.1.8
Okazis korekto de gravaj malsekuroj, kaj ĝisdatigo de listoj de «internacinomaj» retregionoj kaj «publikaj sufiksoj». Multo en la artikolo aplikiĝas ankaŭ al la ankoraŭ ne eldonita SeaMonkey 2.0.12.
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A Introduction to Bordeaux 2011.03 for Linux FreeBSD and PC BSD
The upcoming Bordeaux for Linux and BSD 2011.03 release will see a major shift in how the program is written and the new features that will be available to current and future Bordeaux customers. This is a brief introduction to explain some of the many planned features that will be available in the upcoming Bordeaux 2011.03 release.
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Pimp your Desktop : Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Customization Guide
This step-by-step tutorial was created for the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system and it will teach you how to change the looks of your Linux desktop into an eye-candy, practical, simple and modern one. In other words, to pimp your desktop and change its looks
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PC-BSD 8.2 Released
The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.2 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and KDE 4.5.5
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Installation Of PlaySMS And SMS Server Tools 3 On Debian Server
This tutorial will show you how you can set up an SMS server on Debian with playsms and smstools. In my example I have used an old Nokia 5140i with a USB datacable.
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