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Getting Your cPanel Linux Server PCI Compliant

With the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council releasing their new standards version, PCI DSS 2.0, it is important to take a look at the security of your Linux server. Since the cPanel brand control panel and Web Host Manager software is the most popular control panel for Linux servers, we will cover achieving PCI compliance on a cPanel server. In this article we will also be using a CentOS server, and the commands should be the same/similar on CentOS, RedHat Enterprise and Fedora. The information below will help you keep your cPanel server secure, and pass a PCI compliant scan.

How to Sync Firefox Add-ons, Bookmarks, Preferences, History

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 21, 2011 8:03 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Mozilla
The following tutorial will teach our readers how to easily backup, restore and sync their Firefox add-ons, bookmarks, passwords, preferences, history and tabs, on all systems!

Banshee, Canonical and how to earn an honest living in open source

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Jos Poortvliet (Posted by russb78 on Feb 21, 2011 7:06 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
openSUSE community manager, Jos Poortvliet, discusses Canonical’s heavy handed tactics over Banshee referrals, and wonders how an openSUSE Foundation might make an honest living in open source…

Quick Look at Exaile & Installation in Ubuntu and Debian

Exaile is a pretty decent music player for GNOME written in PyGTK which comes with features like tabbed playlists, lyrics fetching, radio support, file browser, support for dynamic and smart playlists, cover support, 10-band equalizer and more. The latest version was released a few days ago and comes with several bug fixes and minor issue fixes.

Nagios Installation On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

  • HowtoForge; By Robert Bishop (Posted by falko on Feb 21, 2011 5:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) server with the Nagios Monitoring System. Nagios is a powerful, highly configurable monitoring and alarming system, which can monitor a wide variety of systems (network, server, daemons, applications). Monitoring could be done for instance for availability or utilization. We will be installing Nagios, Nagios Plugins, and Postfix with this tutorial. Postfix will be configured to send email via your alternate email server.

The Java Mess

  • keithcu.com; By KeithCu (Posted by keithcu on Feb 21, 2011 4:14 PM EDT)
  • Groups: JBoss
Sun’s first mistake with Java was locking up the codebase, letting few see it, and letting even fewer improve it, so that today, there exists only a small community of people, outside of Sun/Oracle, who understand and are improving the core.

How to replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver in ubuntu

  • ubuntugeek.com (Posted by gg234 on Feb 21, 2011 3:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System.On X11 systems, XScreenSaver is two things: it is both a large collection of screen savers; and it is also the framework for blanking and locking the screen.

XFCE 4.8 Desktop Environment

Although often classed as light-weight, XFCE qualifies as a medium weight amongst the Linux front ends. It's heavier than, say, LXDE or Window Maker but it uses less resources than KDE or Gnome. However, it is a desktop environment rather than simply a window manager, and as such, it comes with a set of associated utilities.

Instant Vintage Photo Effects with the FIL Script for GIMP

  • Scribbles and Snaps; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by dmpop on Feb 21, 2011 1:23 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
You can emulate different vintage photo effects in GIMP, but usually this is a rather laborious and time-consuming process that requires some editing chops. Fortunately, the Film Imitation Lab (FIL) script lets you turn plain snaps into eye-popping vintage photos with a minimum of effort.

3 Reasons why Linux is the platform for education

Gone are the days when it was sufficient if students coming out of high schools knew one end of the computer to the other. With each passing year, children are becoming increasingly techno-perfect, in small degree, which translates into better career prospects such as better paying jobs, higher salary etc. To achieve higher levels of proficiency children need to fall back on the age-old trick of starting early.

22 Great Icon Sets for your Linux Desktop

  • Thoughts on Technology; By Jeff Hoogland (Posted by Jeff91 on Feb 21, 2011 4:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Spice up your desktop a bit with some fresh icons!

Fluxbox 1.3 Released

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Feb 21, 2011 3:28 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Fluxbox, the X window manager derived from Blackbox, has reached version 1.3...

Top 5 Image Viewers for Ubuntu/Kubuntu

  • TuxArena; By Craciun Dan (Posted by Chris7mas on Feb 21, 2011 2:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Ubuntu
This article overviews five image viewers available for Ubuntu and also includes at the end a list of another five ones which either are no longer maintained or are based on older libraries (KDE3 for example).

DNA Structure Animation in HTML5

  • Tech Drive-in; By Manuel Jose (Posted by kiterunner on Feb 21, 2011 1:34 AM EDT)
If you don't know what HTML5 is or how crucial it is to the whole future of the Internet ecosystem, you need to check out our previous article featuring 15 incredible HTML5 demos showcasing prowess of HTML5 over Adobe Flash. Here is another nice and interesting HTML5 experiment that generates a DNA structure on the fly.

Top 8 Newest GNOME GTK Themes Worth Trying Out

  • Tech Drive-in; By Manuel Jose (Posted by kiterunner on Feb 21, 2011 12:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Ubuntu
If you are a regular here, you must already know that posts relating to Linux desktop eyecandy corners a huge chunk of our daily dose of Ubuntu/Linux articles. On top of the classic and most popular GTK themes for Ubuntu/GNOME we have featured here before, here are a bunch of very new and very awesome GNOME GTK themes worth taking a look at.

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Squeeze (LAMP)

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Feb 20, 2011 11:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Squeeze server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Bodhi Linux 0.1.6 RC2 Releases

After three weeks of user input and a few bugs reports the Bodhi team and I are happy to present our second release candidate (version number 0.1.6).

Is Ubuntu playing with fire?

This entry began out of a comment I made in an LXer thread that explains the reason not why I’m anti-Ubuntu but why I see a frantically waving red flag in the path Ubuntu is taking toward its bleeding-edge push for new technologies in what people are expecting to actually use on their desktops.

VirtualBox 4.0.4 is released! PPA Debian and Ubuntu

Oracle released VirtualBox 4.0.4, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.0. that come to improves stability and fixes regressions.

Oracle looks for love at Java DevJam

FOSDEM 2011 The Java* track at FOSDEM 2011 started off on the right foot by dealing with the state of the OpenJDK head on – both politically and technically – with a talk from Oracle's Mark Reinhold. There were quite a few speakers at Java DevJam and lots of Java tech over the two days, but this talk was needed to start to clear the air, hindsight suggests.…

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