Tag Archives: sysadmin

Anonymous Proxy Servers

Anonymous Proxy Servers hide the IP address of your PC and thereby reduce unauthorized access to your computer through the Internet. They do not provide anyone with your IP address and effectively hide any information about you and your reading interests. Besides that, they don't even let anyone know that you are surfing through a proxy server.

You can find details of public Anonymous Proxy Servers @

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WebMin with WebMinStats

WebMin with the third party WebMinStats module is a great place to start monitoring the performance of your GNU/Linux LAMP system

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System Security made fun !

At least the screenshots for Vidalia / Tor / Privoxy look like they will be fun to use to monitor my System Security and Network Security !

Thank you to insecure.org for linking me to this and also for creating ntop !

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Where did all my disk space go ?

Now you can find out by using the free libre open source windirstat project hosted on sourceforge

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Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability

Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability SBLIM (pronounced "sublime") is an IBM-initiated Open Source project, intended to enhance the manageability of GNU/Linux systems by enabling WBEM, Web Based Enterprise Management.

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Virtual Min Virtual User / Server Control Panel

http://www.virtualmin.com/ Virtualmin Front Page, originally uploaded by osde8info.

You can easily switch between VirtualMin and WebMin modes by clicking the buttons in the top left hand corner of the screen !

Virtualmin SideBar Menu FrameVirtualmin Front Page Details Frame

this shows both side bar menu (frame) and details (frame).

Here's the cut-down / limited / secured Virtualmin Virtual / User / Server control panel that your "customers" see ! Note that they can also switch between VirtualMin and WebMin modes !

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visual difference utilitys

I use the GNU diff utilities all the time but thanks to ohloh i've just discovered there are also plenty of graphical / visual comparison / difference tools & utilitys such as

and the very exciting sounding

Which diff tool / utility do you use the most ?

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Google App Hosting and admin emails

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=33389&hl=en

The Google Apps Team automatically monitor abuse@yourdomain.com and postmaster@yourdomain.com to ensure that they can properly address all reports of spam, abuse, and technical issues.

If you'd like a copy of messages sent to abuse@yourdomain.com and postmaster@yourdomain.com, create email lists for both addresses, and add yourself as a recipient:

  • abuse @ your.domain     Email list     2 recipients   Google Support,your-admin-user
  • postmaster @ your.domain    Email list     2 recipients   Google Support,your-admin-user

Since abuse and postmaster are reserved aliases, you won't be able to use them as usernames or nicknames. If you'd also like to trap emails sent to admin and webmaster click on User Accounts chose your-admin-user and create an aliases for admin and webmaster by adding nicknames for admin and webmaster !

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Which version of Java do you have installed ?

You can check / verify which version of Java is installed on your PC by going to http://www.java.com/ !

Verify Java InstallationVerify Java Installation

FYI
I am currently using Java Version 5.0 Update 14 because i use an application that doesn't work with Java Version 6 Update 5

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