Category | March, 2007

Open Any Folder To A Command Prompt

Open Any Folder To A Command Prompt

Everyone has been burdened at some point by wanting to open a CMD prompt quickly to a specific location. You can easily do this by adding a  "Open Command Prompt Here" to the Explorer context menu. That way all you have to do is to open Windows Explorer, find the required folder and right-click it. One of the context menus appearing is the "Open Command Prompt Here" option. In older Windows operating systems you had to manually add the "Open Command Prompt Here" to the Explorer context menu. [...]

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Install OTRS Open Source Ticket Request System in Debian

Install OTRS Open Source Ticket Request System in Debian

OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. [...]

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AVG Free Anti-Virus for Linux UBUNTU

AVG Free Anti-Virus for Linux UBUNTU

AVG Free Edition is a well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product, and for commercial purposes has a fairly inexpensive license plan. Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files. [...]

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FProt AntiVirus on Linux/UBUNTU

FProt AntiVirus on Linux/UBUNTU

F-Prot Antivirus for Linux was specially developed to effectively eradicate viruses threatening workstations running Linux. It provides full protection against macro viruses and other forms of malicious software - including Trojans. [...]

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Make Your Windows Share Read/Writeable From Linux

Make Your Windows Share Read/Writeable From Linux

There have been many articles written about using SAMBA to share a Linux Filesystem with Windows Computers, but very few articles on using a Windows FS from a Linux box.  And yes….it can be done.  FUSE is one alternative, but a better solution is NTFS-3G. [...]

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Compiling Asterisk from Source on UBUNTU

Compiling Asterisk from Source on UBUNTU

Ubuntu includes packages for Asterisk and Zaptel, but they may not be up to date, or the newer packages may only be available in newer Ubuntu releases. With this procedure you can install the latest version of Asterisk by compiling from source. [...]

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Asterisk Install From Source

Asterisk Install From Source

Many people are wondering how to install an Asterisk PBX from source code on a Debian system. We are using Debian Etch (4.0) in this tutorial and will show you step by step how to set up your PBX. The screenshots are from UBUNTU, the only real difference being that in Debian Etch you need to be logged in as root during the process and in UBUNTU, you have to add sudo in front of the commands. [...]

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Deep Freeze Solution to Operating System Woes

Deep Freeze Solution to Operating System Woes

These days everyone is concerned with Computer Security and making sure their computers and data aren’t compromised.  Once a computer is configured, the user is really the only person who can screw anything up or install programs they shouldn’t.  Deep Freeze from Faronics is an inexpensive product that will allow you to restore your system to the original state after every restart!  You can literally format the C Drive, restart and you are up and running!  You can “unfreeze” your computer make changes and “refreeze” the computer with the updated files.  The software works on Windows Vista, XP, 2000, 95/98 and MAC OS X. [...]

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Read-Only Write Protect External Storage Devices Easily

Read-Only Write Protect External Storage Devices Easily

In Windows Vista there is an alternative that will allow your corporate users to be able to read from external storage devices but not write any data to them. You will be able to use any USB or FireWire external devices but they will be marked as read-only.  So you can access the data, but not modify it.  This is all done with one registry key. [...]

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Linux Integration With Active Directory Part 1

Linux Integration With Active Directory Part 1

Samba is a set of Unix/Linux native components designed to provide Microsoft Windows authentication, file and print services. Samba allows a Unix/Linux system to act much like a Windows Server, including the ability to natively join a Windows Active Directory domain, provide legacy NT 4 style domain services and fully integrated SMB file and printer sharing.  Samba can be implemented on a small group of computers – workgroup – to enable file and print services to a workgroup, or can be scaled enterprise wide to support an organization.  If you are looking for simple Samba services and setup please refer to this article. [...]

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