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Open .daa files in Linux / UNIX

01/08/2013 09:53 PM

To convert .daa(Direct-Access-Archive) files, use PowerISO for Linux. This is a free utility for linux which can extract, list, and convert image files (including ISO, BIN, DAA, and other formats).

.daa is a disk image format that supports advanced features, such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes.
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Post-Installation Ubuntu Desktop Check List

01/09/2013 02:31 PM

Ubuntu is currently the most popular flavor of Linux, based heavily off of Debian. It has a huge community, lots of support from developers, and is a suitable platform for both workstation and server. With a Long-Term Support version every other major version, offering 5 years of support at no cost.
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Ubuntu 12.04 Internet Server with ISPConfig

01/09/2013 10:06 PM

This is a guide to deploy a very common server configuration capable of handling web services, email, DNS, Database, and even VPS support. This guide covers a single server setup, however this setup can be scaled up if built properly. This server configuration is the default server configuration for GNet Cyber Solutions.
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Download Magento community extensions

01/10/2013 10:31 AM

Magento offers an extension system that allow the website to download extensions from Magento, without having to install anything or do any sort of coding. It is an effective installation platform, however there are instances when this is undesirable or unavailable from the server end. To work around this the name and version of the extension must be known, this is to extrapolate the extension filename. The Magento Connect extension server is at http://connect.magentocommerce.com/community/get/. So to download a package use the following example:
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Adding an SSL certificate to ISPConfig Server

01/10/2013 06:13 PM

This tutorial shows how you can use a free Class1 SSL Certificate from StartSSL to secure your ISPConfig 3 installation and get rid of self-signed certificate warnings. The guide covers using the SSL certificate for the ISPConfig web interface (both Apache2 and nginx), Postfix (for TLS connections), Courier and Dovecot (for POP3s and IMAPs), and PureFTPd (for TLS/FTPES connections). If you've installed monit and use HTTPS for its web interface, I will show you how to use the StartSSL certificate for it as well. This guide assumes you use Debian or Ubuntu; the principle is the same for other distributions supported by ISPConfig 3, but paths might differ.
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Ruby on Rails on Apache and ISPConfig

01/11/2013 09:55 PM

This article shows how you can install Ruby on Rails (RoR) and integrate it in Apache2 (including a short section at the end showing how to use RoR in a web site created with ISPConfig).

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a web application framework which is rapidly gaining popularity among web programmers. It aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created and offers skeleton code frameworks (scaffolding) from the outset. Applications using the RoR framework are developed using the Model-View-Controller design pattern.
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Backing Up with Rsnapshot & Snapshots Of MySQL Databases

01/11/2013 11:17 PM

This howto will show you how to install and set up Rsnapshot, enable archiving of snapshots and how to back up MySQL databases on Debian.

1. Install rsnapshop

The following guide will be ran as root:

sudo su

apt-get install rsnapshot
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Backup Android Boot, Recovery And System Partition Images

01/13/2013 06:18 PM

One can’t stress enough on the importance of backups, a backup of your system, recovery and boot partitions can save you a lot of hassle. This guide will explain how to take these backups using a free tool called RomDump.

These backups are on the internet, those have been taken by other users and you never know if they have been modified to contain malicious code or not. Secondly, you can’t be too sure if they would work with the exact specifications of your phone or not, as even for the same phone model, there can be differences depending on the phone’s regions, intended carriers and other similar factors, and flashing a wrong boot, system or recovery image to your phone can most likely brick it. Therefore, it is always a great idea to take backup images of these partitions of the device, so that they can be recovered later if anything goes wrong.
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What Is ADB And How To Install It With Android SDK

01/15/2013 08:13 AM

When it comes to Android modding, most novice users are confused or left wondering by reference over reference to a certain adb. This is specially true when you are looking up something on modding your device, or root it in particular. ADB is the wonder toy of Android and everyone seems to love it, so lets have a look at understanding what it is and why you need it, and how you can get it.
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Compile iDeviceRestore on Linux

01/15/2013 08:58 PM

This is a guide to compiling iDeviceRestore by @p0sixninja on debian linux. It has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and is working.

1. First, we need to get the dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential automake cmake \
libreadline6 autotools-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev autoconf \
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Configuring Network Interfaces on Debian/Ubuntu

02/23/2013 01:21 PM

Ubuntu ships with a number of graphical utilities to configure your network devices. This document is geared toward server administrators and will focus on managing your network on the command line.

Ethernet Interfaces

Ethernet interfaces are identified by the system using the naming convention of eth_X_ , where X represents a numeric value. The first Ethernet interface is typically identified as eth0, the second as eth1, and all others should move up in numerical order.
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List of CPU Flags

05/24/2013 06:39 PM

Show CPU Details

To get a description, including a list of flags the CPU supports, in GNU/Linux use:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

List of CPU Flags

All the flags

The full listing is in the kernel source, in the file arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h .
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