Description
ufw is stands for Uncomplicated Firewall, this program is for managing a Linux firewall and aims to provide an easy to use interface for the user, as well as support package integration and dynamic-detection of open ports. ufw  is not intended to provide complete firewall functionality via its command interface, but instead provides an easy […]

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There is no straight forward method for 301/302 URL redirection as we did with rewrite rule. But there are some situations where we need to redirect a URL on a host to some URL on different host. In this situation we need to use 301/302 redirection.  There are two ways we can implement this.
First method […]

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Introduction
OpenNTPD is a Unix system daemon implementing the Network Time Protocol to synchronize the local clock of a computer system with remote NTP servers.
OpenNTPD is primarily developed by Henning Brauer as part of the OpenBSD project. Its design goals include being secure (non-exploitable), easy to configure, accurate enough for most purposes and with source code […]

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Introduction
When screen is called, it creates a single window with a  shell  in  it and then gets out of your way so that you can use the program as you normally would.  Then, at any time, you  can create new windows with other programs in them (including more shells), kill existing windows, view a list […]

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MAC OS is one of the OS which gives impresive graphical ability and interface. My friends where planning to buy an apple laptop only because of its graphics, I myself attracted to MAC OS. There are some hardware compatibility issues for running MAC OS on Intel Hardware. So well other alternative to using MAC OS […]

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First off, remember that fprint is not entirely stable, and may not work all the time. A list of supported devices is here, and the list of unsupported devices is here.
1. First thing to do is add the [third-party] fprint repository to your sources file ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’
# Fingerprint reader support (fprint)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/madman2k/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe […]

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Well, webcam started working on Ubuntu in my HP Pavilion dv2000 model.
Here is the details of what did to get the webcam running on using Ubuntu.
$ svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/
$ cd linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk/
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ modprobe uvcvideo
Tested with ‘ekiga ‘ and ‘xawtv’

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