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How to easily Set Up your Fedora-Linux Home Network

May 19, 2013
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How to easily Set Up your Fedora-Linux Home Network

How To copy and share files between linux (Fedora and Ubuntu) computers and share a printer How to set up a home network on Fedora 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 (or Ubuntu 8.4 to 11+) with a router. (At the begining of this article, I was still using Fedora 11,13, and 14 on different pc’s and have live copies of Ubuntu 8.4,...

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How To automate Linux backups to a remote pc

November 25, 2012
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passwordless ssh: automated Linux shell backups to another computer ssh remote login without a password Accessing a remote site through ssh without a password How to do unattended backups to a remote linux computer Quite often, you want a shell script to ssh into a remote server (your web site?) unattended and do a (regularly scheduled, cron job?) backup, for instance. SSH allows this...

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Internet, Web Site, Security with .htaccess

October 27, 2012
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The surest control over security is with /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf when you have the entire server, or in .htaccess files otherwise – if you are on shared hosting. Read the post “Unix-Apache .htaccess” for basic information first, if you are not familiar with this. It will be best if you have your site duplicated on your home pc, where you can test out any changes to...

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how to boot up Fedora 14,15,16,17 (any linux) without password prompting

April 26, 2012
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If you always turn on your personal computer and “boot up” in Fedora 11-14 with the same user-id and don’t want the computer stopping at your user-id and password prompt every time, then, open a terminal session and edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf as root. You can insert 2 lines under the heading AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin= Login Window (in any x-window system look around for “Login...

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how to make one of your Fedora pc’s visible on the Internet

December 5, 2011
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how to make one of your Fedora pc’s visible on the Internet

How Do I Make my Fedora pc behind my router Visible to the Internet? How to Connect your LAN web server to the Internet If you install the Apache software package on your pc, you can make your pc function like an Internet web site server, create an html page and see it out on the internet – from anywhere. If you have more...

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Unix-Apache .htaccess

March 9, 2011
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Unix-Apache .htaccess

hacking, error pages, redirection, time zone, add-on & sub domains & SEO, hot linking – bandwidth stealing. .htaccess files (or “distributed configuration files”) allow you to do many different things, … commonly, to have your own custom 404 error pages, to redirect pages, and to enhance security. (for security, see Internet Security Note 1: Unix used .filename extensions before Microsloth Windoze or even DOS...

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How to Find Linux CPU Usage

November 29, 2010
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To find what is soaking up your cpu How do I Find Unix-Linux CPU Utilization System Monitor on your desktop, you can find all that and more at Applications -> System Tools -> System Monitor. There, you will find each processor, RAM, your operating system, its version, kernel, hard disk space, cpu load averages over the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes, processes running,...

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how to get linux to recognize your modem or router, internet connection

October 26, 2010
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how to get linux to recognize your modem or router, internet connection

2009 – 2010 – 2011 How to get Fedora to recognize your internet connection. I installed Fedora and it will not recognize my cat5 (cat5e) ethernet, internet, connection. I installed linux on my pc (Fedora 11, then a year or 2 later, 13, and now fedora 14) and, each time, everything was fine except that Fedora would not communicate with the internet, even-though the...

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help! wireless network not active

October 25, 2010
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help! wireless network not active

Laptop with wireless is disabled. unplugged Belkin-n router, and modem, and now the wireless does not work fedora 13: how to “re-enable” wireless NIC ? fedora 13: (re)activate wlan0 “Operation not possible due to RF-kill” fedora 13: “wireless is disabled”; “enable wireless” is grayed out my laptop (Sony Vaio) was networking, communicating with the internet just fine. with or without the CAT5e wire –...

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