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Configuration

My New Book on Squid Proxy Server (A Beginner’s Guide)

April 18, 2011
Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

I have not blogged since a long time mainly because I was a bit busy authoring a book Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner’s Guide for Packt Publications. The book is an introductory guide to Squid (especially the new features in Squid-3 series) covering both the basic aspects as well as the in dept details for [...]

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How To: Install PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5.1 or RHEL 5.1

September 23, 2009
RedHat CentOS PHP 5.3

PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 has tons of functionalities which are not provided by PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 is the most recent version of PHP available in CentOS 5.1 and RHEL 5.1 via updates. Also, its difficult for people to upgrade OS(s) on production servers frequently and especially if the servers are running absolutely [...]

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How To: New Mail Notification

September 17, 2009
New Mail Notification

mbooth commented on one of my last post (How To: GNOME GMail Notifier) informing that he/she uses mail-notification. I was curious to check it out for mail via IMAP and I found it way more useful as compared to Gnome Gmail Notifier. I especially like the option to configure it to check the mails every [...]

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How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)

September 15, 2009
Dual Display Configuration ATI Radeon

As promised in my last post (News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released), I am back with a post on configuring dual display with ATI Radeon HD Graphics Card and proprietary catalyst (fglrx) drivers from ATI.
Hardware Used
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3200 (256MB, onboard)
Monitor 0: ViewSonic VG1930WM 1440×900 (19″ LCD, Connected via DVI port)
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How To: GNOME GMail Notifier

September 9, 2009
Google Mail Gmail

GNOME GMail (Google GMail) Notifier is an awesome tool for GNOME/Linux users if you are addicted to checking mails every few minutes. GMail Notifier solves a bit of your problems by notifying about multiple gmail accounts. One more plus point is that it can display GMail Notifications for new mails in accounts for which you [...]

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How To: Install/Configure GNUMP3d – Streaming Audio Server

July 23, 2009
Gnump3d Audio Streaming

Mission
GNUMP3d is the GNU Streaming MP3/Media Server written in perl. Our mission is to setup GNUMP3d and stream audio over LAN or over internet. Below are the essential steps to install and configure GNUMP3d.
Download
Download latest version of GNUMP3d from GNUMP3d Website.
Extract

[kulbirsaini@fedora ~]$ tar -xjf gnump3d-x.x.tar.bz2

Install

[root@fedora ~]$ cd gnump3d-3.0
[root@fedora ~]$ make install (as root)

Now gnump3d is [...]

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How To: Install and Configure GitWeb

January 28, 2009
Git Gitweb Repo

Goal
Setting up gitweb (web interface for SCM software git) for your project’s git repository for public access and developer commits via ssh.
Assumptions

You already have your project’s git repository.
You have hosting space somewhere to host gitweb.
You have root access.
You are using Apache as webserver.

Example for this howto
Project : VideoCache
Domain for gitweb : git.cachevideos.com
URL for git access [...]

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How To: Boot Fedora Faster

December 9, 2008
Fedora Boot Process

Note: These tricks apply to any Linux based OS. But I have tested them only on Fedora, so can’t say whether they’ll work on other Linux(s).
My current Fedora installation is now almost one and a half years old. Yes. I am still using Fedora 7 I have Fedora 10 on my other machine. [...]

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IntelligentMirror: RPM and DEB Caching Improved (0.5)

November 19, 2008

After spending a lot of time with youtube cache, now I am trying to devote some time to update intelligentmirror with required features and enhancements that youtube cache already enjoys. In the same direction here is version 0.5 of intelligentmirror.
Improvements

Added max_parallel_downloads options to controll the maximum threading fetching from upstream to cache the packages.
Fine grained [...]

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How To: Configure Caching Nameserver (named)

November 19, 2008

Mission
To configure a caching nameserver on a local machine which will cascade to another previously configured and functional nameserver (may or may not be caching. It’ll generally be your ISP nameserver or the one provided by your organization).
Advantage

Reduces the delay in domain name resolution drastically as the requests for frequently accessed websites are served from [...]

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