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Postfix Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm On Debian Etch

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This article describes how you can monitor your Postfix mailserver with the tools Mailgraph and pflogsumm. Mailgraph creates daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly graphs of sent, received, bounced, and rejected emails and also of spam and viruses, if SpamAssassin and ClamAV are integrated into Postfix (e.g. using amavisd-new).

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Fun with GStreamer Audio effects

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"GStreamer is mostly known as a back-end for media players like Totem and Rhythmbox. Besides that, it is used as a foundation for content creation tools like Jokosher, Buzztard, Marlin, and PiTiVi."

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One File System to Rule Them All

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If there's one thing that drives me nuts about the current operating system models is that there is no one single file system that works across all operating systems, fills all the needs of everyone out there and is stable beyond mention to boot. (no pun intended) For Linux there is no less than 30 different file systems.

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Tweaking KDE GUI Apps in a Gnome Environment

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For those of us who enjoy using the Gnome desktop environment, we know we want our GUI applications to be easy to use and seamless. But, there’s always that one program that uses the KDE QT library to provide a front-end. [...] If not, this tutorial uses a very common Gnome Clearlooks control scheme and the Human icon set to help unify the Gnome and KDE look & feel.

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Firefox Add-ons: Coding in a Tunnel

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Firefox add-ons, or extensions, are small programs that run inside the browser in order to customize some behaviors. In theory, it is possible to develop and maintain a multilingual, multiversion and multiOS Firefox add-on. In practice, there are many obstacles to overcome in order to create and to maintain a working Firefox add-on in one language for one Firefox version and for one OS.

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Linux tip: Bash parameters and parameter expansions

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Do you sometimes wonder how to use parameters with your scripts, and how to pass them to internal functions or other scripts? Do you need to do simple validity tests on parameters or options, or perform simple extraction and replacement operations on the parameter strings? This tip helps you with parameter use and the various parameter expansions available in the bash shell.

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A new way of thinking about flash filesystems

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Storage manufacturers are getting ready to start shipping solid state disks, and Linux-based devices like One Laptop per Child's XO and Intel's Classmate don't contain standard hard disks. To improve performance on the wide array of flash memory storage devices now available, project leader Jörn Engel has announced LogFS, a scalable filesystem specifically for flash devices.

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Configuring Samba 3.0 To Use The ADS Security Mode (CentOS) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

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The intent of this article is to show you how to configure your Linux machine and Samba server to participate in a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain as a Member Server using Kerberos authentication. This involves using the security = ADS security mode in Samba.

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Podcast delves deeper into Linux boot speedups

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TimeSys has published a second podcast on achieving rapid boots on Linux devices. "Fast boots -- the sequel" discusses the relationship of footprint and boot time, post-2.6.15 kernels' CONFIG_EMBEDDED option, application pre-linking and profiling, filesystem selection, execute-in-place (XIP), and initramfs, among other interesting techniques.

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The Guide to 100 percent Linux KDE Desktop Success

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This is a guide on how Linux and especially the KDE desktop could revolutionize the world of computers and operating systems and bring a major breakthrough so Linux would go mainstream. It is made for the KDE desktop but the ideas could also find their way into GNOME and other environments.

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Open Source World lacks Good Web Development IDEs

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Linux is considered the de-facto server based operating system. A typical Linux distribution comes with everything any web developer could have asked for: php, apache, python, perl, ruby etc. However there is one thing that Linux sorely lacks: Web Development IDEs.

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Easy Cross Platform File Sharing With KPF

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For those Linux users who have multiple networked computers and who want to periodically want to get material off of their linux boxes onto their windows computer, many people suggest samba. A much simpler application for someone who does not want to tranfer files the other direction (Windows->Linux) is KPF. It comes with KDE by default, and is very easy to set up.

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Why is Amarok's "Burn This Album" Disabled in Ubuntu?

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So you are using the killer Amarok music application under Ubuntu, but when you try to "Burn this Album", the menu item is grayed out and otherwise disabled. The reason for this is because Amarok is a KDE application designed to work with K3b, the cd burning application for KDE, but it's not installed by default in Ubuntu. (For that matter, neither is Amarok)

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Linux Desktop User's Tips

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These are short and easy things to do which can make your Linux desktop even more convenient than it currently is. Trying Ubuntu out without changing your distribution or creating a new drive partition or installing it on another HD, setting up OpenOffice so ability to read/write Windows Office 2007 word processor documents are what you'll learn how to do today.

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Setting Up Postfix As A Backup MX

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In this tutorial I will show how you can set up a Postfix mailserver as a backup mail exchanger for a domain so that it accepts mails for this domain in case the primary mail exchanger is down or unreachable, and passes the mails on to the primary MX once that one is up again.

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