If you want to play your AVI videos in your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you must convert them to MP4 or H.264 format. The following instruction is to let you convert your AVI video files to MP4 files. 1. You must have MPlayer and Mencoder. For more information about MPlayer and Mencoder, please refer [...]
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I installed a sendmail relay server in my LAN so that other servers can use it to send emails. The following is how I did the configuration in a Ubuntu 9 machine. 1. First you need to install sendmail package. 2. After installation, you need to do the following configuration: (1) Sendmail Master Configuration File: [...]
The Hostid is a globally unique ID for a Sun Solaris Machine. Sometimes, you need to change this hostid for whatever purpose. For example, you current machine is down for hardware failure and you purchased a new machine. However, all your current running software are based on this old hostid, and you must bring the [...]
1. Using FFMpeg or JMAC to Convert ape to wav: .ape is the file extension for Monkey’s Audio Files. Monkey’s Audio is a pseudo-free lossless audio codec, like flac. If you don’t have ffmpeg, you can yum (for Fedora) or apt-get (for Ubuntu) to install it. yum install ffmpeg or apt-get install ffmpeg After you [...]
You have two options to install WordPress in Ubuntu 9.10. The first option is to download and install WordPress manually. If you are in a shared web hosting environment, you have to do this way. The second option is to install it from the Ubuntu’s repository. If you are the root, you can just type: [...]
By default, Rar is not available in Fedora 10. If all you need to do is extract files from a Rar archive, unrar from RPM Fusion’s YUM repositories will work. If you need to create Rar archives, then you will have to download and install the complete Rar package from DAG. The instructions below show [...]
Canon has poor support for Linux.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein. Here are a few mistakes that I made while working at UNIX prompt. Some mistakes caused me a good amount of downtime. Most of these mistakes are from my early days as a UNIX admin. userdel Command The file /etc/deluser.conf [...]
Need to monitor Linux server performance? Try these built-in command and a few add-on tools. Most Linux distributions are equipped with tons of monitoring. These tools provide metrics which can be used to get information about system activities. You can use these tools to find the possible causes of a performance problem. The commands discussed [...]
