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Script to regenerate /etc/vmail files for cPanel

If you’re using cPanel 11.24+ you might find that the files under /etc/vmail folder vanishes at times. Horde and other webmail authentication issues are caused due to this bug. This folder content is required even for email account verification. I wrote a small...
LXDE – lightning desktop experience

LXDE – lightning desktop experience

From few days, I was bugged with the same old Gnome and its sluggish speed on Ubuntu. Wanted something faster or fastest X11Desktop Environment. As Linmaya and others commented in our habba discussions, LXDE has been great so far today. Its easy to install on Ubuntu...
Fedora-10: Enriched

Fedora-10: Enriched

Distro to give a try. What amazed me with this distro is the amount of localization done. New software. It comes with KDE 4.2 which is good. Localization support out of box. You can see Sampada.net Kannada website working out of box in konqueror. Also, don’t...
Mobile Media Converter

Mobile Media Converter

The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter that uses ffmpeg to convert between popular desktop formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv) and...

Using rsa keys for password less SSH access

The basis of using ssh without typing your password is public key based authentication. You need to generate a pair of public/private keys for this. 1. Firstly, generate your public/private keys using ssh-keygen #ssh-keygen -t rsa You must use the -t option to specify...

Linux Media Center Edition

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Kubuntu including a 10′ UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only...