Author: Alberto Lepe G.
My first *nix experience was during my first job, working with AIX servers.Two years later, I started to use Linux (around 1998). My first distribution was RedHat, however it was really difficult to setup my video card. I was really interested in Linux... (continue)
Author: Alberto Lepe G.
I have used XMMS for several years in every linux distribution I have had the opportunity to use. However, because I'm using Ubuntu (Xubuntu), Debian decided to kill xmms since Ubuntu Hardy version.You can see some of the reasons and follow-up here... (continue)
Author: Alberto Lepe G.
If you are like me, who migrated from Photoshop to gimp, you may miss the save for the web option that Photoshop has.There is a plugin for gimp that will do almost exactly the same task. However, it seems that has not been distribuited for... (continue)
Author: Alberto Lepe G.
What is a DNS server? In few words, a DNS server (or nameserver) helps you to resolve names into IP addresses. For example, if you want to access another computer using a easy-to-remember name instead of its IP address... (continue)
Author: Alberto Lepe G.
This is a list of quick how-to's that I personally consider them very useful:How to benchmark a web site:# install apache2-utils (apache ab tool)# then:ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://server/index.php-n = number of conections-c = multiple connections at on... (continue)
Author: Alberto Lepe G.
Versions: Hardy (8.04), Intrepid (8.10) and Jaunty (9.04)Setting up a Mail Server in Linux may be sometimes not as easy as other services (eg. ftp, ssh, web, etc). I needed to set up a Mail server in few days, so I went through several tutorials, manual... (continue)