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IntelligentMirror: RPM and DEB Caching Improved (0.4)

September 19, 2008

IntelligentMirror version 0.4 is available now. There have been significant improvements in intelligent mirror since last release.
Improvements

Fixed defunct process problem. You will not see defunct python processes hanging around anymore. Previously every forked daemon used to got defucnt because parent never waited for the forked child to finish.
IntelligentMirror now supports caching of Debian packages just [...]

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IntelligentMirror: Available for Testing

August 19, 2008

Note : A newer version of intelligentmirror is available now. Please check this.
Intelligent Mirror is basically a tool or squid plugin (redirector) to cache rpm packages so that the subsequent requests for the same package can be served from the local cache which will eventually save a lot of bandwidth and downloading time.
Who needs Intelligent [...]

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How To: Configure Squid Proxy Server

May 2, 2008
Squid Caching Proxy Server

Mission
To configure squid for simple proxying without caching anything.
Use Cases

When you want to have control on what people browse on your lan.
When number of machine is more than the number of IP addresses you can afford to buy.
When you want to help this holy world in saving some IPV4 addresses

Assumptions

You have a machine [...]

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How To: Configure Hierarchicy of Proxy Servers (Squid)

March 5, 2008

Yesterday I came across this idea of caching all the data that I browse on my hard disk so that the average load time of a website decreases. Actually the idea is I’ll cache all the static data that I browse like images, static html pages, CSS files and similar things which does not change [...]

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How To: Install FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP

December 11, 2007

I was randomly browsing the internet and reading about making a website look better and I encountered ffmpeg-php. ffmpeg is a very powerful tool to record, convert and stream audio and video. Its a very rich tool almost supporting every format out there in the world. It can convert any format to any other format [...]

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How To: Configure VNC Server

December 1, 2007

Vncserver is just another application available in almost all the available Linux based distros. Configuring vncserver is very easy. But the default desktop view in vncviewer is gray scale desktop with very pathetic GUI. To view normal Gnome or KDE desktop in vncviewer, assigning a custom port for usage, user configuration and to adjust the [...]

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How To: Install PHP-Ming

November 29, 2007

Yesterday, I came across a library called ming for php which can do wonders while converting videos to .swf (flash), images to .swf and much more. The best thing is that ming provides wrappers in C/C++/PHP/Python/Perl/Tcl etc. So, can be used within any one of these languages. But, the damn thing drove me crazy while [...]

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How To: Install and Configure Shoutcast Radio

November 20, 2007

Shoutcast is a mp3 broadcasting/streaming media server software provided by NullSoft. One can setup a server on any system, GNU/Linux / Windows/ MacOS and can stream mp3 over the network, internet/intranet. I setup shoutcast on my system a long back and found it very useful. Here is a step by step how to on [...]

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How To: Install Wordpress on LAMP

November 12, 2007

Recently, I bought this domain name and shifted all my blogs here on saini.co.in . As I chose wordpress as the software to blog. So, just installed it and started using it right away. Installing wordpress is one of the most easiest things that you’ll ever do. Below is a step by step howto on [...]

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How To: Configure Secure FTP Server (VSFTPD)

September 8, 2007

This post is totally dedicated to vsftpd configuration with uploads enabled. vsftpd stands for Very Secure FTP Daemon. It is shipped with almost all the latest Red Hat based OS. vsftpd for rpm based Linux distros can be downloaded from here. Also, one can install vsftpd by issuing ‘yum install vsftpd’ or ‘apt-get install vsftpd’ [...]

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