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How To: Wireless LAN with Broadcom BCM4312 in Fedora 11

July 27, 2009
Broadcom Wireless BCM4312

Fedora 11 does have support for Broadcom wireless drivers, but it didn’t really work out on a friend’s laptop. Finally we got it working and I thought I’ll just note the steps down. Below are the three easy steps you need to take to make it work properly.
Step 1
Install needed packages

[root@fedora ~]$ yum install broadcom-wl  [...]

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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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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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How To: Install Fedora without CD or DVD

August 26, 2008

Note: If you are new to Fedora/Linux, I highly recommend the book “Fedora Linux Toolbox”
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Use Case

When you don’t have CD / DVD drive on your system.
You have Fedora DVD but your system has only a CD Drive.
You don’t want to waste time and resources in burning iso on optical media.

Pre-requisites

You have a [...]

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How To: Test Fedora Pre-release

August 17, 2008

If you want your Fedora to be best ever, just grab a copy of Fedora DVD or live iso from here and test the features you like. Checkout the Fedora 10 feature list and test as many as possible.
If you don’t have access to optical media (cd/dvd rom) and want to try the live iso, [...]

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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: Write Custom Redirector or Rewritor Plugin For Squid in Python

April 30, 2008

Mission
To write a custom Python program which can act as a plugin for Squid to redirect a given URL to another URL. This is useful when already existing redirector plugins for Squid doesn’t suit your needs or you want everything of your own.
Use Cases

When you want to redirect URLs using a database like mysql or [...]

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How To: Write Custom Basic Authentication Plugin for Squid in Python

April 24, 2008

Mission
To write a Python program which can be used to authenticate for Squid proxy server. This is useful when you don’t want to configure complex systems like LDAP, ntlm etc.
Use Cases

When you want to authenticate clients using mysql database.
When you want to authenticate clients using flat files or /etc/passwd file or some custom service on [...]

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