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Extract RAR archives in Ubuntu

To extract RAR archives in Ubuntu, you need to install unrar. On terminal run sudo apt-get install unrar Or you can install from Synaptic Package Manager To extract a rar file, run terminal, go to the folder where the rar


Install APC Cache

APC Cache is PHP Object cache to speed up PHP scripts. http://pecl.php.net/package/APC The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free and open opcode cache for PHP. It was conceived of to provide a free, open, and robust framework for caching


Connecting from windows to linux desktop

To connect to Linux desktop from windows, use any VNC Player. http://webhostingneeds.com/Connecting_to_linux_desktop_from_windows


Linux netbooks expected to reach 50% market share

Linpus Technologies Inc, a Linux operating system (OS) developer, expects Linux-based netbooks to reach 50 percent market share by next year, on a par with Microsoft Inc’s Windows platform, company general manager Stephen Lim said yesterday. “More and more chip


Video Editors for linux

Here are some of free open source video editors fro Linux http://www.openmovieeditor.org http://www.kdenlive.org http://www.pitivi.org http://avidemux.berlios.de


Installing yamdi from source

yamdi is a metadata injector for FLV files like flvtool2. To install yamdi, run cd /usr/local/src wget http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/yamdi/yamdi-1.4.tar.gz tar -zxvf yamdi-1.4.tar.gz cd yamdi-1.4 gcc yamdi.c -o yamdi -O2 -Wall mv yamdi /usr/bin/ yamdi 1.4 is latest version at the time


Improve Linux boot speed

Time to boot linux depends on what services you start on booting and configuration of the PC. Better CPU and Memory always improve boot speed. By default linux have many services that can turn off. For example, desktop computer won’t


AVG Internet Security for Linux

* Virus and spyware protection * Safe web surfing, downloading and instant messaging * NEW Prevents identity theft * Hacker attacks prevention * Phishing and E-Mail scam blocking http://free.avg.com/download


Installing pecl uploadprogress

Download latest software from http://pecl.php.net/package/uploadprogress Install cd /usr/local/src wget http://pecl.php.net/get/uploadprogress tar -zxvf uploadprogress-*.tgz cd uploadprogress-* phpize ./configure make make install make install will show # make install Installing shared extensions: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ # There will be line with the above path


Premature end of script headers

when I try and run apache update I get the following: Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/easyapache.pl: Please check /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log for the exact error. Solution To update cpanel. /scripts/upcp –force To recompile apache/php /scripts/easyapache