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Install Wine on Ubuntu by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified May 11, 2019 10:13
Wine is a software that allow to run Microsoft Windows software on GNU/Linux. This how-to ease the installation of the latest stable version of Wine on Ubuntu.
Setup disk quotas on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Nov 11, 2017 09:30
Quotas are a simple mean to limit the disk usage of some software or users. This article list some of the methods used to implement disk quotas on Debian.
Setup the Debian Multimedia apt repository by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Aug 17, 2016 09:45
The Debian Multimedia repositories provide some non-free softwares (the Lame MP3 encoder, for example).
Install the parental control filtering proxy server DansGuardian on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Nov 11, 2017 09:45
DansGuardian forbid the access to adult content to its users. In addition to checking the URL against a black list, this software filter the content of visited web sites. It can also check for virus in downloaded files with the help of ClamAV anti-virus.
Setup a Squid proxy server on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Nov 11, 2017 09:42
The use of a Squid proxy server can solve many problems: reduce bandwith usage, filter visited Internet pages (anti-virus, parental control, ...), overide a IP based access control, ... This howto describe some Squid configurations for a better protected surf.
Install the ClamAV anti-virus on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Apr 25, 2013 07:08
ClamAV is a free software anti-virus. Its scanning engine is very efficient. It is particularly suited to e-mail servers protection, and regular checks of server's files. This howto helps you install the latest version of ClamAV on Debian.
Plone by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Dec 21, 2011 10:46
Informations and tutorials to help setup Plone sites and develop Plone products.
Legal mentions by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Dec 08, 2014 08:17
Files management by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified May 31, 2012 05:53
How to install files management Web tools.
Content syndication by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified May 31, 2012 02:58
How to install content syndication Web tools. This include RSS feed readers and planets.
Install wTorrent BitTorrent client on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Apr 29, 2015 10:30
wTorrent is a Web frontend for the BitTorrent rTorrent client.
BitTorrent download by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Jul 05, 2012 08:13
Web frontends for BitTorrent download tools. This applications are designed to setup a seed-box
Setup and use the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Nov 11, 2017 09:44
LVM stands for "Logical Volume Manager". It sits between the partitions and hard disk, and provides flexibility and power to partitions management. It is particularly useful for managing partitions used by the Xen domains. It provides the ability to create partitions over several hard disks (software RAID), to resize partitions on the fly, ...
Install the BitTorrent client BTG on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Nov 11, 2017 09:30
BTG is a command line BitTorrent client which can work as a daemon. It can be controlled by various user interfaces, one of which is a PHP Web application. This howto help you to install the torrent client on Debian.
Advanced tools by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Jan 31, 2014 06:55
Utilities requiring a minimum of experience to fully enjoy.
Install Opera web browser on Ubuntu by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Mar 02, 2018 06:04
Opera is a free commercial alternative to Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. This article ease its installation on Ubuntu.
Maximize the available free space on ext3fs partitions by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Oct 19, 2012 11:38
By default, the file system Ext3 reserves a little less than 5% of the available space in the system. This space is used in particular to limit fragmentation. This howto helps you to recover this space.
Secure the temporary folder on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Nov 11, 2017 09:31
The /tmp folder can be used to compromised the system security. A simple and efficient way to protect the system is to prevent the execution of scripts present in this folder.
Development by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Dec 21, 2011 10:46
Informations, source codes, tricks, tutorials and references for software development.
Install the anonymizing proxy server TOR on Debian by Pierre-Yves Landuré — last modified Mar 02, 2018 08:35
TOR (aka. The Onion Router) is a network of chained and encrypted proxy servers hiding your true identity to the visited web sites at the cost of a slightly slower download speed. Privoxy add a protection layer to TOR. It blocks ads, referrer and add SOCKS protocol compatibility.