HandBrake Video Converter

Have been looking for a free application that can convert videos to different format for mobile devices/tablets which includes iDevices like iPhone and iPad. Handbrake answers them and now playing along with some videos that can be uploaded to my iPhone.

Linux: Setup Mail Server

Have seen post from ubuntuforums about setting up mail server using ubuntu linux. I wanted to share to you probably you might want to try it out.

ReactOS – Windows-based architecture

This is the first time that I have seen an Operating System that was based on Windows’ architecture. You may check this out:

ReactOS® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.

More details on this URL: http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

Restrict ssh-server access to specific network

I build an Ubuntu Linux with two network interfaces connected to LAN and WAN (Internet). I have installed ssh-server using:

sudo apt-get install ssh openssh-server

Just notice that even external users can access the server thru ssh so I decided to secure it by allowing ssh access to listen ontly LAN and not to WAN interface.

Why Linux is better?

Got nice article from PHPUGPH thread about advantages of linux over Microsoft Windows. Hope that it may enlighten some of us which is which, especially on some organizations that are planning to implement linux.

Here is the direct link: Why Linux is better?

WordPress: PhotoGallery Plug-in

I am looking for a free add-on to our community site that will show picture gallery of activities which was suitable for my requirement. I have used Gallery, Coppermine, SMF Gallery and finally I found WordPress Plug-in that is called NextGen Gallery. I would recommend this one. Very simple to use and install on your wordpress site.

PHPMyAdmin: Wrong permission on config file…

I have encountered a problem when I am trying to access my phpmyadmin, the following error came up:

Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!

I am thinking of some access control list error.  I have searched the web and found article pertaining this error. The link is not on english but you can see that config.inc.php control is set to 777 (means writable).

Film Production Tools

I have seen on other blog that there are film producers already uses open source softwares to develop movies. For home film producers, you may want to see these tools to avoid buying or  downloading unlicensed/pirated softwares.

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Setup Mail Server on Ubuntu Linux

If you cannot afford to buy an enterprise mail server on your organization like M$ Exchange, you may want to try building your own using Ubuntu Linux. Have seen links on how to do this and hopefully might be interesting.

Disable Directory Listing in Apache

I have installed Ubuntu Server 7.04 linux and setup as LAMP Server. By default, directory browsing is enabled but it is not advisable on production website. I have searched the following information on how to disable directory listing on apache from linuxassassin‘s website.