Linux Howtos

Linux : Howtos : Getting the sound back
Posted: ( Sun 25th Feb 2001 07:42:11[PM] UTC )
"When I upgraded to the 2.4 kernel, I lost my sound for no apparent reason. I took this as a personal insult and made it my mission to conquer the computer. The audience for this article is mainly those who have had sound but lost it during a kernel upgrade."

Linux : Howtos : Yopy development kit
Posted: ( Sun 25th Feb 2001 06:45:55[PM] UTC )
"My last article was all about getting my Yopy and making sure it worked. Now that I had the unit, I needed to figure out what I could do with the unit. I managed to hook the Yopy to the notebook using the serial cable that came with the yopy. The yopy had a getty running at 115200 so I used minicom to test the connection to the yopy. It gave me a login prompt so I logged in as root to take a look around."

Linux : Howtos : Speed up your network's Internet connection; Using Squid
Posted: ( Sun 25th Feb 2001 06:26:45[PM] UTC )
"The performance boost varies between traffic trends, but we received an average cache-hit rate of 54% in our labs. Which means our Cache server was off loading half the traffic from our web servers, and Internet connection. So what do you need?"

Linux : Howtos : Fly swapping
Posted: ( Fri 23rd Feb 2001 05:07:29[AM] UTC )
"Fly swapping or as it should be called, Swap on-the-Fly allows the addition of swap space as and when needed. This is very handy if you have just ran out of Memory while trying to do a big compile or, more often, you mis-configured your swap at installation and ran out of memory before even X starts."

Linux : Howtos : 2.4 kernel & USB mass storage
Posted: ( Fri 23rd Feb 2001 04:12:34[AM] UTC )
"USB Support under the recently released 2.4 Linux kernel adds more than support for keyboards and mice. While USB-based storage devices aren't well suited as primary system storage devices, they are a handy way to add storage to an existing system without cracking the case."

Linux : Howtos : Playing DVDs with Xine
Posted: ( Fri 23rd Feb 2001 04:10:01[AM] UTC )
"How could I even imagine that I'd be able to play my DVDs on anything other than the commercial software that came with my video card? To my surprise, not only was DVD playback possible, it was much easier then I expected."

Linux : Howtos : Hard drive benchmarking with iozone
Posted: ( Thu 22nd Feb 2001 07:53:58[AM] UTC )
"If you're in a position where you need or want to maximize your computer's speed, all but the most compute-bound tasks will likely benefit from a faster disk drive system. Which raises the question: Aside from reading specs (which are really just a first cousin to statistics in terms of veracity), how do you evaluate the performance of a disk drive?"

Linux : Howtos : Setting up a Local Area Network
Posted: ( Thu 22nd Feb 2001 07:36:34[AM] UTC )
This article describes how to build a LAN using Red Hat. The article begins with the basics: an overview of the TCP/IP suite, and an explanation of assigning IP addresses in a LAN. Then the article covers the LAN hardware and configuration using a tool called LinuxConf. Lastly, the article walks you through the critical steps of testing and troubleshooting your LAN.

Linux : Howtos : Fiddling with USB audio and Linux
Posted: ( Thu 22nd Feb 2001 07:34:20[AM] UTC )
"As far as hardware installations go, USB Audio is one of the most painless Linux experiences I've ever had. My Microsoft speakers worked the first time they were plugged in (louder than planned, but functional)."

Linux : Howtos : Installing the latest KDE
Posted: ( Tue 20th Feb 2001 05:46:42[AM] UTC )
"Over the past few months, readers have asked me for instructions on installing the new KDE 2.1 into Linux. This weekend, I did a new install of LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 on a Wallstreet Powerbook and used the opportunity to document the steps needed to upgrade to KDE 2.1."

Linux : Howtos : Clearing out the Master Boot Record (MBR)
Posted: ( Mon 19th Feb 2001 09:22:16[PM] UTC )
"... install Linux, realize that Windows will screw up the boot record, delete the Linuxp artition, try to install Windows first... OOPS. The Windows setup runs into a problem and stops. The reason for all of the above is that they forgot to uninstall LILO"

Linux : Howtos : Securely erasing a hard drive with Perl
Posted: ( Sun 18th Feb 2001 07:16:18[PM] UTC )
"The goal of this Perl script is to just delete all partitions, create one partition that takes up the whole hard drive, and then fill up the hard drive with garbage data (including some random encrypted data just to ruin a hacker's day trying to find out what the data is)."

Linux : Howtos : Ximian GNOME: Welcome to your desktop!
Posted: ( Sun 18th Feb 2001 07:14:35[PM] UTC )
This article goes through the different features of Ximian GNOME and teaches you how to customize the desktop to suit your specific needs. Also reviewed are some of the applications that come with Ximian GNOME.

Linux : Howtos : Creating network diagrams
Posted: ( Sun 18th Feb 2001 07:12:49[PM] UTC )
As a diagnostic resource the network diagram, describing the topology and providing detailed information of hardware, is essential. This article takes a quick look at some useful open-source tools available for Linux that will allow you to create and maintain useful network diagrams.

Linux : Howtos : Avoiding security holes when developing an application - Part 1
Posted: ( Sun 18th Feb 2001 07:09:58[PM] UTC )
This article is the first one in a series about the main security holes that can usually to appear within an application. These articles show the ways to avoid them by changing the development habits.