Install Subversion with Web Access on Ubuntu

sudo svnadmin create /svn Next we’ll need to edit the configuration file for the subversion webdav module. you might use a different editor if you’d like. Set this to the path to your repositorySVNPath /svn The next section will let you turn on authentication. This is just basic authentication, so don’t consider it extremely secure. Restart apache after changing this line.

December 28, 2006 · 1 min · 61 words · Cynthia Gonzalez

How to Customize Your Ubuntu Kernel

Kernel customization is not for everyone. just note before you try any of this that it can break your system. There’s a bunch of reasons that you’d want to customize your kernel. This article will not explain how to patch your kernel, just how to customize your current one. To start, we need to figure out what version of the kernel we are currently running. We also need to plant the curses library and some other tools to help us compile....

December 27, 2006 · 2 min · 345 words · Lonnie Hansen

How to Get Alerted When Somebody Has Dugg your Article

Digg.comis the absolute biggest source of traffic that most content authors are going to ever see. Here’s a quick and dirty trick on how to set up an alert. Leave the other options as default. Now hit the search button. Or not at all.

December 27, 2006 · 1 min · 44 words · David Herring

Enable Remote Desktop (VNC) on Kubuntu

Kubuntu includes the built-in ability to allow other users to control the desktop. Like Ubuntu, you might allow users to access and control the desktop via the VNC client. Unlike Ubuntu, there are a lot more options. For the purposes of this article, we want to enable remote desktop control of the system. Note that this isn’t the most secure method of accessing your system. I would recommend setting a password at the very least....

December 26, 2006 · 1 min · 92 words · Rebecca Roberts MD

How to Install IIS on Windows 7 or Vista

Keep in mind that your version of Windows may not come with IIS. I’m using Windows 7 Ultimate edition. First, go to Control Panel, and then press Programs.

December 26, 2006 · 1 min · 28 words · Ronald Boyer

Enable Quick Copy and Paste with the Mouse on SecureCRT

Pasting is just as simple: just hit the middle mouse button.

December 22, 2006 · 1 min · 11 words · Jeremy Rubio

Install TrueCrypt on Ubuntu Edgy

TrueCryptis a phenomenal open-source disk encryption software that runs on Windows or Linux. Copy the downloaded file into whatever location you’d like. The next step is to install some required software for the build process to execute. You may have some or all of these installed on your machine already. This step is necessary because you’ll probably get an error later on otherwise. sudo ./build.sh This should have run successfully without errors at this point....

December 22, 2006 · 1 min · 115 words · Jason Reeves

Find out Which Links Visitors Click Per Page with Google Analytics

Figuring out what links a visitor clicks from the category pages is also helpful. Thankfully Google Analytics gives you an easy, visual way to do this. First, select a time range via the calendar in the lower left hand corner. I chose to hit the VMware category to see how well it is doing. I was wondering if that link helped visitors to get to the right spot. I’m glad to know that people are getting to the right place…...

December 16, 2006 · 1 min · 88 words · Thomas Cortez

See What Updated Packages Are Available from Ubuntu Command Line

Launch the aptitude tool from the terminal using the following command. I don’t really care about updating that utility, but we’ll go through it anyway. You will be taken to this confirmation screen, showing you what will be installed. Note that in the Packages to be upgraded section, there are two packages that I had selected. Hit the G key again to roll out the packages. Use Q to quit, and you are all done!...

December 16, 2006 · 1 min · 75 words · Teresa Cooper

See What Version of a Package Is Installed on Ubuntu

The apt-get utilities are simply a front-end to the debian dpkg utility, which actually does the real work. it’s possible for you to use this utility to figure out what version is installed. It has many features to process textfiles and to do system management tasks (as in perl).

December 16, 2006 · 1 min · 49 words · Aaron Maddox

See Where a Package is Installed on Ubuntu

Once you use the apt-get utility to install a package, sometimes it seems to disappear into nowhere. You know it’s installed, you just have no idea where. The conf file is clearly /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf. Update: Changed from -S to -L thanks to a tip from sebest.

December 16, 2006 · 1 min · 45 words · Jessica Cabrera

Add a User on Ubuntu Server

The -m option will force useradd to create the home directory.

December 15, 2006 · 1 min · 11 words · Tyler Crosby

How to Mount a Remote Folder using SSH on Ubuntu

Connecting to a server across the internet is much more secure using SSH. Replace with your username. Now we’ll create a directory to mount the remote folder in. I chose to create it in my home directory and call it remoteserv. mkdir ~/remoteserv Now we have the command to actually mount it. You’ll be prompted to save the server key and for your remote password.

December 14, 2006 · 1 min · 65 words · Marissa Berry