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darkstat is a network statistics gatherer.

Effectively, it's a packet sniffer which runs as a background process on a cable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of useless but interesting statistics,and serves them over HTTP.

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Most of the people want to know the list of debian based linux distributions and live cd's.This is very interesting list i haven't seen any place on the net
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I have an unused partition and want to install Ubuntu Dapper on it. On reading through the docs it seems possible to install it from an existing linux/unix box.

1. My current partition looks like below, of which "/dev/hda2" primary partition is unused:
   

   /dev/hda1               1        1044     8385898+   7  HPFS/NTFS
   /dev/hda2            1045        4699    29358787+  83  Linux LVM
   /dev/hda3            4700        4712      104422+  83  Linux
   /dev/hda4            4713        7296    20755980    5  Extended
   /dev/hda5            4713        7296    20755948+  8e  Linux LVM
   

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

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If you are using Widows only to back-up your DVD videos... there is good news. You can install DVD Shrink on Linux using wine and do the same.

I have outlined the steps taken to do so on FC5:

1. Use yum to install wine if you don't have it installed already:
   

   # yum --enablerepo=extras install wine
   

2. Configure wine as a user:

   $ winecfg
   

   Select "Applications -> Windows Version -> Windows XP"

   This is the tricky part, as FC5 mounts the DVD automatically with the title of the DVD instead of using the same mount point, so you will need to map the drive manually each time for a different DVD.

   • Insert DVD Video.
     
   • Go to the Drives tab of the "Wine Configuration" window.
     
   • Click on the "Add" button and "Browse" to the mounted DVD in the "/media" path.
     
   • Click on "OK" button at the bottom once finished.
     
   • When listing the contents of the "dosdevices" you should see something like below:
     

       $ ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices
       lrwxrwxrwx 1 sandip sandip 10 Jun  8 22:58 c: -> ../drive_c
       lrwxrwxrwx 1 sandip sandip 17 Jun  8 23:06 d: -> /media/DVD_VIDEO/
       lrwxrwxrwx 1 sandip sandip  1 Jun  8 22:58 z: -> /
       

     You could also manually create a symlink instead:

       $ ln -s /media/DVD_VIDEO ~/.wine/dosdevices/d:  
       

3. Download and install DVD Shrink.
   

   $ wget http://linuxweblog.com/downloads/packages/dvdshrink/dvdshrink32setup.zip
   $ unzip dvdshrink32setup.zip
   $ wine dvdshrink32setup.exe
   

4. Launch and configure DVD Shrink Preferences as below:

   $ wine 'C:\Program Files\DVD Shrink\DVD Shrink 3.2.exe'
   

   • Select "Edit -> Preferences..."
     
   • Disable audio and video preview.
     
   • Disable burining with nero.
     
   • Click on "OK" once finished.
5. Create ISO with DVDShrink and write the ISO to your DVD using cdrecord or Nautilus CD/DVD creator.
   Check out mrbrass.org for help with using DVD Shrink.

The acronym LAMP refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers

Linux, the operating system;

Apache, the Web server;

MySQL, the database management system (or database server)

Perl, PHP, and/or Python, scripting languages

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