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Network File System (NFS) Server and Client Configuration in Debian

Mar 122007

NFS was developed at a time when we weren't able to share our drives like we are able to today -- in the Windows environment. It offers the ability to share the hard disk space of a big server with many smaller clients. Again, this is a client/server environment. While this seems like a standard service to offer, it was not always like this. In the past, clients and servers were unable to share their disk space.

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Private and Public IP Addresses Explained

Network 48 Responses »

Mar 112007

Public IP Addresses

What is Public IP address

Public IP Addresses (also known as Static IP Addresses) are IP addresses that are visible to the public.Because these ip addresses are public, they allow other people to know about and access your computer, like a Web server.In some cases, you do not want people to access your computer or you want to restrict certain individuals from accessing your computer or server.

Desktop Search Engine with Doodle

General, Other Linux 1 Response »

Mar 082007

Doodle is a tool to quickly search the documents on a computer. Doodle builds an index using meta-data contained in the documents and allows fast searches on the resulting database. Doodle uses libextractor to support obtaining meta-data from various file-formats. The database used by doodle is a suffix tree, resulting in fast lookups.

Pain of the LVM and Fix

General 2 Responses »

Mar 052007

Problem domain:

I have started to use LVM(2) and converted my system on lvm2 devices. I have noticed that I need to use initrd in order to boot up because all of my partitions were using lvm except /boot. I had 2 versions of debian-netsint on CD. I could boot up with them and with some debian kernel (2.6.8-2)installed from deb, but not the kernel I have complied (2.6.20). I got a kernel panic: missing root device and init: dev/console was missing.

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Apache Tips:Hide Apache Information & PHP software version

Webserver 8 Responses »

Mar 012007

By default, Apache will send version and modules information (e.g., mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl) in every HTTP header.

Detect content format of a disk or disk image Using disktype

General, Other Linux 1 Response »

Feb 272007

The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.

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