Linux - Part 14

Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Dropbox client now available for Linux

posted on September 6, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software with 5 Comments

The folks at dropboxÃ‚Â released the much anticipated Linux client yesterday. Currently it’s designed as a nautilus extension. Support for Konqueror should be available soon. The nautilus extension is opensource but the dropboxd daemon which keeps the files in sync is closedÃ‚Â source. Packages for Ubuntu and Fedora are available for download. For other distros you’ll need [...]

Google Chrome

posted on September 3, 2008 in google, Internet, Open Source, Software with 1 Comment

Google released it’s own web browser “Google Chrome” yesterday.Ã‚Â Why the need for a new browser? Google felt that the browser has not evolved too much since the old days and to support today’s web applications browsers will need to be re-engineered. Google decided to wipe the slate clean and start over with Google Chrome [...]

Google Linux software repositories

posted on August 29, 2008 in google, Linux, Software with 0 Comments

Google has Linux software repositories setup for you to easily stay up to date with their Linux softwares. Their repositories supportÃ‚Â APT, YUM, YaST, urpmi and RPM. However, only Google Desktop and Google Picasa are published on the repositories. Google earth has to be downloaded and installed manually. I’ll show you how to add the [...]

How to build a local DNS caching server

posted on August 28, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 2 Comments

Being in Malaysia we are gifted with superior Internet speeds. NOT!! Services like openDNS are awesome but the lag between us and them often results in sluggish performance anyways. One way to improve performance is to use local DNS servers. I don’t use Streamyx’s DNS servers because they SUCK!!. TIME’s DNS servers are ok but [...]

How to add static routes in IPCop

posted on August 25, 2008 in HowTo, Linux with 3 Comments

IPCop till today does not have a GUI to add static routes. The manual method. You will have to do this every time IPCop is rebooted. root@proxy73:~ # route add -net 10.0.0.0 gw 10.38.24.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Now let’s make the route persistent across reboots. There are 2 files for this. Use either one depending on [...]

The Danesh Project