Technowine

This page is aimed at programmers new to the Open Source / Free Software world, who want to make a contribution, but aren’t sure where to start.
Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in.
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Some times you want to keep your stuff ,of drive/partition in your computer ,hidden because of many reasons.we are not here to talk about the reasons rather we have a simple solution for those of you who wants to Hide their drives/partition in Windows XP.Windows XP provides an in-built tool called Diskpart, which can be used for managing the drives in Windows XP.Just Follow these below mentioned simple step for hiding your drives/partition for Windows XP. Read the rest of this entry »

#1. Log-in to your Gmail / Google Account and associate a phone number . This is useful because you’ll then receive an SMS text message whenever someone tries to recover your Google password.
#2. Create a new email address (on say Yahoo! Mail or Gmail itself) and set this as the secondary email address for your existing Gmail and Google Accounts. Check for emails on this new account manually or through a desktop client via POP3 / IMAP but do not enable auto-forward for the new email address as the original purpose will be defeated.
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What actually a proxy server means??
A proxy server is a server within a network which provides an extra layer of security and prevents the users direct access to the internet.. Squid is the most widely used proxy server which also provides caching which enables squid to store requested objects and thus speeding up internet access.

Configuring a squid proxy is an easy task and allows you with wide number of options to configure your users access to the internet .
The best part is that squid is supported on all open source platforms
In this article I will explain on how to configure squid proxy server on redhat / linux.
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Anonymous FTP is the choice of Web sites that need to exchange files with numerous unknown remote users. Common uses include downloading software updates. anonymous FTP requires only a username of anonymous and your email address for the password. Once logged in to a VSFTPD server, you automatically have access to only the default anonymous FTP directory (/var/ftp in the case of VSFTPD) and all its subdirectories .You as an anonymous user may be able to download the files but not upload unless configured on your FTP server (VSFTPD server in this case).
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Sometimes your network may consists of Windows and Linux system.Samba server is the viable solution for file and printer sharing between linux and windows machines. Samba allows files and printers to be shared by all the systems in a network.
For networks having only Linux system we should go for NFS server.On how to configure NFS share read this
Samba server uses the SMB protocol for sharing files and printers across the network.

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Now one can easily enjoy the desktop terminal services of a remote linux  machine easily on its own linux/Windows desktop.Vncviewer is    the answer to this.

So what is a vncviewer?

Vncviewer is a viewer(client) for virtual network computing.Vncviewer is an Xt-based client application for the VNC (Virtual Network  Computing) system. It can connect to any VNC-compatible server such as Xvnc or WinVNC, allowing you to control desktop environment  of a different machine.

It is relatively straightforward to display and access a Linux desktop from a system anywhere else on a network or the internet by using Virtual Network Computing (VNC). This can be achieved regardless of whether that system is running Linux, Windows or Mac OS X.. The more impressive thing about this is that it can be set up for free with only a little time and knowledge. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes for security reasons one may wish to connect to internet through proxy server

So what is a proxy Server.

Proxy Server is a server that acts as a path between the server and a client. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource, available from a different server.

A proxy server has two main  purposes:

• To keep machines behind it anonymous.
• To speed up access to a resource (via caching). It is commonly used to cache web pages from a web server.

Proxy server can be placed anywhere in between the user local computer and the destination internet.

For connecting system to the internet via proxy server we need to modify setting in the web browser . Read the rest of this entry »

Vyatta is a popular open source alternative for cisco routerand is a security software which is available as a bootable live CD iso and as a Citrix XenServer & VMWare virtual appliance.

It allows for the easy configuration for routers in your network and is free of cost.

This installation is for all the machines supporting Vmware server or Vmware Workstation and also for the system on which vyatta needs to be installed on base system.
All versions include the current Vyatta feature set and are suitable for evaluation and test environments. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes one may find himself in dependcy resolution problem while installing rpm packages on linux. Yum(Yellowdog update manager) server is a viable solution to it which holds the repository of linux packages and allows users to take packages .Client can easily install packages with simple commands using the yum installer . Read the rest of this entry »