Jitsi

July 24, 2012
Apps

jitsi is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger written in Java. It supports some of the most popular instant messaging and telephony protocols such as SIP, Jabber/XMPP (and hence Facebook and Google Talk), AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Bonjour and soon others like IAX. The development of Jitsi started at the University of…

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New EasyApache 3.14 – PHP 4 support removed.

July 10, 2012
cPanel

In a few days, cPanel intends to release EasyApache 3.14. On March 20, 2012, we announced the End of Life of PHP 4. EasyApache 3.14 will remove support for PHP 4. If you are currently using PHP 4 as a DSO handler, EasyApache 3.14 will warn you to take action before performing a build. If…

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Copy existing cpanel account

July 10, 2012
cPanel

An easy way to duplicate an existing cpanel account is: 1. Backup the existing account /scripts/pkgacct domaina 2. Change the domain name and username of the existing cPanel account via WHM >> Main >> Account Functions >> Modify an Account eg. domain name from domain.com to domain.net and username from domaina to domainb 3. Restore…

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Fish

July 4, 2012
CLI

From Fishshell.com Fish: the friendly interactive shell – fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. fish is included in Ubuntu universe. It can be installed using apt-get install fish fish is included in Fedora. Users of Fedora Core 4 and later can use the command yum install…

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Owncloud on cPanel server

July 4, 2012
General Info

To install Owncloud: create a seperate subdomain cpanel user (your preference) wget http://download.owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-4.0.4.tar.bz2 tar -xjf path/to/downloaded/owncloud-x.x.x.tar.bz2 cp -r /path/to/owncloud/* /home/user/public_html chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/owncloud/install/data Note: data folder will not be created until initial setup has been run Go to http://owncloud.yourwebsite.com or http://yourwebsite/owncloud my initial setup page said: PHP module zip not installed. PHP module mb…

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File Password Protection

March 15, 2012
CLI

How do I password protect / encrypt a file within Linux using OpenSSL ? The file we will encrypt will be the file secretfile.txt.As you can see it is just a plain text file. Encrypt File Use the openssl comand to encrypt your file and then test the new file is fully encrypted. $ openssl…

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RetroShare

March 12, 2012
Apps

From sourceforge.net RetroShare is a Open Source cross-platform, private and secure decentralised communication platform. It lets you to securely chat and share files with your friends and family, using a web-of-trust to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. Features Serverless, encrypted Chat & Filetransfer Multiple simultaneous downloads / uploads Search Friends Messages Forums…

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sl

March 12, 2012
CLI

From practicalthought.com sl takes the most common use of Unix ls, to display the files in a directory compactly in multiple columns, and makes it substantially more useful. sl groups files by purpose so you can mentally organize many files quickly; for instance, it collects HTML and PHP files together, as opposed to leaving them…

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Malware site scanner

February 16, 2012
Apps

Hi, I don’t usually recommend a lot of web based tools but I had to mention this one, sitecheck.sucuri.net. This quick little web based malware/site scanner just saved me about 2 weeks worth of work by locating a segment of .js that was causing a malware warning to be thrown only in certain browsers and…

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CSF/LFD install guide for Plesk

February 13, 2012
Plesk

From diademblogs.com Config Server Firewall (csf) and Login Failure Daemon (lfd) is a robust firewall solution having Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI), Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for Linux servers. Although it is more compatible with CPanel we have been able to use the same for the Plesk hosting control panel also and it is running…

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