A rich collection of articles, examples, scripts and how-tos on free and open source tools, including content management systems such as Typo3 and OpenCMS. How to configure Web server software and make the best of managment software like Plesk and Webmin. Cheat sheets on commonly used software packages in the Linux environment including Amanda, SSH and others. Articles describing Linux Digital Video and DVD production under Linux and motion detection and capture with a Wifi web cam. Google custom search engines for specialized vertical searches on the topics covered on this web site.
Infohit Shorts
- Infohit Shorts Short quick posts of useful links and tips
Virtualization on Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Xen A series of articles on using Xen on recent versions of Ubuntu. Tested on Ubuntu Jaunty
Linux Digital Video
- WVC54GC How to use the WVC54GC wireless webcam with Firefox; Details how to use Greasemonkey and VLC so you can view the video stream from the built in web management interface. Works with both Linux and Windows.
- WVC54GC Using Linksys WVC54GC Webcam with Linux; Part one of a 2 part post on how to view, capture and detect video under linux using the WVC54GC Webcam. The second part can be found here: Motion Capture using the WVC54GC with Linux
- USB Webcam How to take single image snapshots from your webcam in Linux. Use mplayer to save jpeg still images from your usb web cam
- USB Webcam Capturing webcam video with Linux. Learn how to grab and save video from your web cam to your hard disk.
Productivity
- Mozilla Firefox: Firefox 1-click download and KDE 4 There is a conflict between KDE shortcuts and the Firefox one-click download feature, follow these easy steps to disable the KDE 4 shortcut so one-click downloads work in Firefox
- Delete bash history; Preserve shell privacy - Erase your bash history!
- FreeNX arrow keyboard mapping problem - Restore correct keyboard mapping when connecting to NX server running on older servers
- Firefox invalid security certificate error - Restore Firefox friendly SSL error page.
- Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed. Fix a phpmyadmin problem that occurs after Ubuntu verions upgrade.
Content Management
- Typo3: How-To Google Analytics with Typo3 Add powerful web analytics software to your Typo3 site quickly and easily.
- Typo3: Turning off Google Analytics tracking for your browser. You visit your Typo3 site more than anyone else. Make sure your hits and visits are not counted.
- Typo3: Setting the page title tag to the subject of a WEC forum blog post. Make the content of your pages more obvious in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS).
- Typo3: Find using our Custom Search engine help from a wide range of Typo3 web sites on the net.
Web Server Management and Configuration
- Apache: Configuring Apache 2.2 to authenticate users against an NT PDC. Let web server users using the Windows NT Domain password to authenticate against your webserver using native unix usernames and groups.
- Plesk: Linux Plesk Shutdown. Shut down Plesk services so you can make a reliable backup (Linux)
Server Management
- AMANDA: Backup Management Cheat Sheet. Quick list of commands useful for managing an Amanda installation that uses virtual tapes.
