Great python script, makes life very easy: UbuntuZilla.

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From the site: GroundWork Monitor Community Edition provides a essential IT monitoring solution that enables you to maintain network visibility and control. This is a single server deployment that leverages the strengths of 15 other open source projects such as Nagios, rrdtool and nmap. It combines the results of these projects in to a system [...]

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An excellent article on the subject: Source. Run these 3 commands from shell. SUDO not required. VBoxManage setextradata “name of vm” “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/HostPort” 2222 VBoxManage setextradata “name of vm” “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/GuestPort” 22 VBoxManage setextradata “name of vm” “VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/Protocol” TCP Where… “name of vm” is your virtual machine name ssh is the name of the service. This is [...]

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This tutorial will explain how to add Ubuntu 8.04 desktop to win server 2003 Active Directory using Likewise Open. Likewise Open is a free, open source application that joins Linux, Unix, and Mac machines to Microsoft Active Directory and securely authenticates users with their domain credentials.

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When you need to run a website (https), mail (ssl/tls) or similar over an encrypted link – you need an SSL certificate. This article will explain some of the choices involved, and how to run your own certificate authority (CA). You don’t need to spend any money to generate your own certificates, and they’re no [...]

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A well-written article on how to backup an entire partition using DD. Another way to do this is to use CloneZilla.

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Places to buy systems with Linux pre-installed (which means the hardware is Linux compatible!). There may be others, this is just a short reference. 1) Dell: Dell is currently selling four laptop systems starting from $549 to $1049; the linux desktop system available starts at $448. All these system are pre-installed with Ubuntu 8.04. here: [...]

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Source: UbuntuGeek The GNU MP3/Media Streamer is a simple application which makes it possible to navigate through your audio and video collection via a browser, and stream playlists across a network.GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats.The software supports browsing, searching, and streaming all via your browser [...]

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