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SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

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These are some notes I had taken down during the installation of Bugzilla on a server with ISPConfig hosting control panel:

Requirements:

Create Site:

Site was created via the ISPConfig control panel with "web6_bugs" as the admin user and "web6" as the group.

Install:

Apache with mod_perl need the below directives in httpd.conf:

Runs a lot faster, but is a memory hog. Suggested to turn off KeepAlive in apache when running mod_perl.

Crontab Entry:

Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users. Azureus offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. Azureus now features an embedded tracker easily set up and ready to use.

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AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics,graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers,mail servers and some ftp servers.

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Place the snippet of code in an index.php file to pull up a different web page for each domain pointed to the same web-space.

If you have been using a USB scanner and upgrade from Edgy to Feisty, you may find that your scanner no longer works.You can use this fix to solve your scanner problem.

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Crypto filesystems keep your data safe – even if someone steals your computer.Linux offers a number of encrypted filesystem options – each with a different approach to the encryption problem.Encrypted filesystems may be overkill for family photos or your résumé, but they make sense for network-accessible servers that hold sensitive business documents, databases that contain credit-card information, offline backups, and laptops.

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Notes on installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC):

1. Download and istall:
   
   $ wget http://pecl.php.net/get/APC-3.0.14.tgz
$ tar -xvzf APC-3.0.14.tgz
$ cd APC-3.0.14
$ phpize
$ ./configure --enable-apc
$ make
# make install
2. Add the below lines to the php.ini:
   
     extension=/path/to/apc.so
  apc.enabled=1
  apc.shm_segments=1
  apc.optimization=0
  apc.shm_size=128
  apc.ttl=7200
  apc.user_ttl=7200
  apc.num_files_hint=1024
  apc.mmap_file_mask=/tmp/apc.XXXXXX
  apc.enable_cli=1
3. Restart apache:
   
   # service httpd restart
4. Check phpinfo() to see if APC is enabled.
   
5. Copy the "apc.php" admin file in the source directory to a password protected web site directory. Edit "apc.php" top line to change password to something different from default.

Latest Compile with pdo drivers for mysql along with mod_security.

NOTE:
Remove the MySQL-shared rpm else openssl will not work.

This tutorial explains how to setup Dual Monitors with NVidia in Ubuntu. It’s quite a pain to get dual monitors working your first time using Linux, however I hope this guide will make the process relatively quick and painless.

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