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Terminator - Multiple GNOME terminals in one window

Terminator is a program that allows users to set up flexible arrange of GNOME terminals. It is aimed at those who normally arrange lots of terminals near each other, but don’t want to use a frame based
window manager

If you are using hardy use the following command to install

# sudo apt-get install terminator

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Setting Up Debian PXE Server

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The Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE, aka Pre-Execution Environment, or 'pixie') is an environment to boot computers using a network interface independently of available data storage devices (like hard disks, CD Drives) or installed operating systems.
This method of installing OS can be very usefull when you want to deploy several os at ones or your machine does not support booting from a USB floppy or CD-ROM drive.

Packages requirements:
1. tftpd-hpa
2. dhcp3-server

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Apache Name Based Virtual Hosting

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Virtual hosts are used to run more than one web site on a single machine. Virtual hosts can be "IP-based", meaning that you have a different IP address for every web site, or "name-based", meaning that you have multiple names running on each IP address. The fact that they are running on the same physical server is not apparent to the end user. In this example I will demonstrate name-based virtual hosting.

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How to Setup Debian/Ununtu LAMP Server

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LAMP is an acronym taken from the initial letters of a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers.
The original expansion is as follows:
Linux, referring to the operating system, Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system.;
Apache, Apache is HTTP Server is a free software/open source web server, the most popular in use. ;
MySQL, the database management system (or database server);

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How To Set Up VMware Tools On Debian Etch

1. Set up a virtual machine of your choice. Click on VM in the top menu of the VMware Server console and select Install VMware Tools.

2. First install some needed pakages:

# apt-get install autoconf automake binutils cpp gcc linux-headers-$(uname -r) make psmisc

3. Next copy the VMware Tools from the mounted iso to the temporary folder:

#  cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-1.0.3-44356.tar.gz /tmp/

4. Afterwards switch to the temporary folder and unpack the VMware Tools: 

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Howto make iso image

To make an ISO from your CD/DVD, place the media in your drive but do not mount it. If it automounts, unmount it.
# umount /dev/cdrom
Create iso image with dd comman:
# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cdimage.iso

  • if = input file (/dev/cdrom).
  • of = output file (cdimage.iso)

To make an ISO from files on your hard drive, create a directory which holds the files you want. Then use the mkisofs command. mkisofs -o /tmp/cd.iso /tmp/directory/

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