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.

Ubuntu: Setting Date/Time using NTP Server

I am a user of Windows and I normally update Windows Clients’ time using the NTP server. On linux, especially Ubuntu, I am thinking how can I change or synchronize system time to existing servers. Luckily I found information on how to do this.

Next Release of Ubuntu LTS Announced (U 8.04)

I am a biggest fan of Ubuntu. Actually, Ubuntu is the reason why I am using Linux. I am very excited on this news and will watch on its development. See the story on this link. By the way, dont forget the 7.10 version of Ubuntu which will be released this October 2007.

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?

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).

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.

Setup Ubuntu 7.04 LAMP Server

I am previously using Ubuntu Server 6.06 for the older machine (Compaq Deskpro EC) and planning to migrate to a greater CPU power. Have tried using Ubuntu Server 6.06 on HP DX 2700 but it doesn’t work. It cannot identify network interface on the machine due to the machines latest release