Tweet flareGet is download manager for Linux that features dynamic file segmentation, HTTP-pipelining for accelerated downloads, supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and metalinks and more. The application is free to use but not open-source. The application is written in Qt and besides the icons, it integrates pretty well under GNOME, including desktop [Continue]
Tweet Plasma Workspaces 4.10 Improve Mobile Device Support and Receive Visual Refinement Plasma Workspaces have been refined considerably. Work continues on updating widgets with new ones built with Qt Quick. This effort brings improvements in consistency, layout behavior, stability, ease of use and performance. It is also now easier to build [Continue]
Tweet The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 4.0, which, according to the official announcement, is the “first release that reflects the objectives set by the community at the time of the announcement, in September 2010: a cleaner and leaner code base, an improved set of features, better interoperability, and a more diverse and [Continue]
Tweet It’s time for another fix, this time for wired / wireless network not working after resume from suspend. Some times in Ubuntu, when resuming from sleep, the wired network doesn’t work and you keep getting “disconnected” notifications. I’ve read that some users are having similar issue with the wireless [Continue]
Tweet If you are finding a quick way for how much RAM your Linux system supports or to determine the number of DIMM slots available, you can use a command line tool called “dmidecode“. To find out the maximum RAM capacity and the number of RAM slots available $ sudo dmidecode -t 16 The output [Continue]
Tweet An open relay is “a mail server that does not verify that it is authorised to send mail from the email address that a user is trying to send from. Therefore, users would be able to send email originating from any third-party email address they want.” Using open relay Someone could use your domain [Continue]
Tweet In a previous post (How to Change Linux Server SSH Port), I write how to change the SSH port on Linux server from the standard port 22. that work fine for most cases, however you may face below error if you apply changes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: sshd: error: Bind to port [Continue]
Tweet The Linux SSH server (OpenSSH) listens on port 22. If you have security measures in your mind and willing to change default SSH port to custom follow the steps below in this article. To change your SSH port, as root, edit the sshd_config file in your /etc/ssh directory. vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config Search for a line [Continue]
Tweet The default network SMTP port for Postfix, Sendmail and most other mail servers is 25 that is used to send email, and most email clients use port 25 as default port for sending emails. Unfortunately internet service providers (ISP’s) have started to block port 25 to control high volume of spam sent through post [Continue]
Tweet PHP is an opensource server side scripting language and it is a widely used. The Apache web server provides access to files and content over HTTP OR HTTPS protocol. A misconfigured server side scripting language can create all sorts of problems. So, PHP should be used carefully. Here are twenty five php security best practices [Continue]
Tweet In order to install the SVN Server you need the SVN Server and Apache Server (to access the repository over http and https). Following are the steps to install the SVN Server and Apache Server. yum install subversion (this command will download and install the SVN Server) yum install mod_dav_svn (it will install the [Continue]
Tweet Server Hardening Security Tips Securing your Linux server is important to protect your data, intellectual property, and time, from the hands of crackers (hackers). The system administrator is responsible for security Linux box. In this first part of a Linux server security series, I will provide 20 hardening tips for default installation of [Continue]
