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Complete Setup Tutorial For Lighttpd, A Lightweight Web Server
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Complete Setup Tutorial For Lighttpd, A Lightweight Web Server

There is a web server that is very conservative in its resource usage and memory footprint. That server is known as lighttpd (pronounced ‘lighty’). Setting one lighttpd instance can be a bit tricky, so this tutorial serves as a clear guide on how to properly configure a lighttpd server on Linux. Understanding the configuration file for each web server instance is key to successfully running lighttpd. This tutorial will also cover adding PHP support for your web servers.   Lighttpd 

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Raspberry Pi Series Part 1: Laying Out The Basics
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Raspberry Pi Series Part 1: Laying Out The Basics

It is thrilling to explore some of the possibilities technology can introduce. Hiking through mountain thickets for a herbalist, will not be quite an adventure without the interesting possibility to discover a new herb, an indigenous weed or a revolutionary cure for a rare disease.  Have you never questioned yourself why a small business may begin from a garage, struggle through capitalist economies, but still rise to a global sized corporate? Sometimes these realms of the future appear

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LMMS Guide Part 2: Tempo, Time Signatures, Beats and Bass Lines
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LMMS Guide Part 2: Tempo, Time Signatures, Beats and Bass Lines

We continue on from part 1 of the LMMS tutorial where we got to do a little experimenting with melodies and beats using the sounds, instruments that came with LMMS. Today we begin exploring options of how to compose music with different time signatures, tempo, or beats per minute. We will also continue to experiment with drum tracks and basslines. Tempo and Time Signatures LMMS allows you to change the beats per minute of the entire project. The lower the number, the slower the pie

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DOSBox Part 2: Creating, Handling, and Booting from Floppy Images
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DOSBox Part 2: Creating, Handling, and Booting from Floppy Images

Continuing on from the previous tutorial, we move on to boot DOS systems from floppy images. Many floppies contained games or other software that would have automatically booted once the system started (using the autoexec.bat script). This can be simulated by using a floppy image which is simply a file that represents an entire floppy disk drive.   Obtaining a Bootable Image There are places you can visit on the Internet where you can download DOS systems in the form of bootable di

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DOSBox Part 1: Introduction, Startup Scripts and The Keymapper
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DOSBox Part 1: Introduction, Startup Scripts and The Keymapper

DOSBox is a great piece of software that allows users to run a huge collection of very old PC software dating back to the 1980s and 1990s on your Linux system. Versions for Windows, MacOS, and others exist as well. This guide one of a series of articles about what you can do with DOSBox and how to get the best out of it. The focus of this article is to briefly touch on the some of the features of DOSBox before moving on the commands to run when DOSBox has started. The “autoexec” section

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Creating Virtual Disks Using Linux Command Line
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Creating Virtual Disks Using Linux Command Line

Linux is indeed a great system with excellent tools at our disposal. There are lots of things that can be achieved using the terminal. One such activity is creating virtual hard drives. Your Linux system should already have the tools required to do this without the need for virtual machine software.   NOTE: This tutorial only covers creating fixed-size disk images whose partitions can be mounted using Linux. Virtual machine programs like VirtualBox allow you to create dynamically expandi

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Overview Of tcpdump With Examples
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Overview Of tcpdump With Examples

You can view information about traffic coming and going from a given network interface using tcpdump. This diagnostic tool allows you to see packet information, that is where incoming packets come from and where outgoing packets are heading to on an interface, with some extra information. You can even save the output to a file to inspect later on. This article will demonstrate simple examples of tcpdump. tcpdump  Default Behavior Running tcpdump with no parameters will look for the

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LMMS Guide Part 1: Creating Simple Melodies Using Sounds And Instruments
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LMMS Guide Part 1: Creating Simple Melodies Using Sounds And Instruments

LMMS stands for Linux Multimedia Studio. It is a very good open-source program that is used to create music tracks using sound files, predefined instruments, and sound effects. LMMS has versions for Windows and macOS in addition to Linux. Their website, of course, lists all of their features offered to users. This article will attempt to provide practical guides and tips for composing songs using LMMS. The version I will be using in these tutorials is 1.1.3. I shall include sheet music a

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Web Server Setup Series - Install & Configure CentOS Web Panel
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Web Server Setup Series - Install & Configure CentOS Web Panel

In the first article of the series, I’m going to start off setting up the web server using the CentOS web panel. CentOS web panel is a web hosting panel with a bunch of GUI tools to manage servers. The panel is designed to provide an easy and secure way of managing web servers. CentOS Web Panel CentOS Web Panel is the popular free web hosting control panel designed to quickly and easily manage dedicated and VPS servers. Once you install the panel, you don’t have to use SSH to do re

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12 Practical Examples Of wget Command In Linux
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12 Practical Examples Of wget Command In Linux

Wget command is a useful GNU command line utility used to download files from the internet. This utility can download the files from servers using popular protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. It runs in the background (non-interactive) and hence can be used in scripts and cron jobs. GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nikšić and currently, it is under Tim Rühsen, Darshit Shah, and Giuseppe Scrivano. In this article let us look at 12 useful examples of using wget utility. wget Command Ex

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PlayOnLinux For Easier Use Of Wine
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PlayOnLinux For Easier Use Of Wine

PlayOnLinux is a free program that helps to install, run, and manage Windows software on Linux. It can also manage virtual C: drives (known as Wine prefixes), and download and install certain Windows libraries for getting some software to run on Wine properly. Creating different drives using different Wine versions is also possible. It is very handy because what runs well in one version may not run as well (if at all) on a newer version. There is PlayOnMac for macOS and PlayOnBSD for Fre

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ifconfig Commands To Configure, Monitor And Debug Network Interface
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ifconfig Commands To Configure, Monitor And Debug Network Interface

Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces. It is used at boot time to set up interfaces as necessary.  After that, it is usually only needed when debugging or when system tuning is needed.   If no arguments are given, ifconfig displays the status of the currently active interfaces. If a single interface argument is given, it displays the status of the given interface only; if a single -a argument is given, it displays the status of all interfaces, even those th

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