Byzanz and PDFEdit on Ubuntu 8.04.1

Byzanz can record your desktop session to a GIF image file. It is ideal for creating a Linux visual tutorial on Gnome Window Manager. The GIF image can be viewed on the Firefox.
To use it, right click on the top bar and select “Add to the panel” and choose “Desktop Recorder”. [...]

HOWTO : Home made wired and wireless router with ZeroShell

My wired and wireless routers are connected together and served me for years. However, they produced a lot of heat on the devices and the electricity adapters. It is not ideal for running 24/7/365 at no air-conditioning environment with my new built home NAS server.
I searched the internet for days and later find [...]

HOWTO : Home made NAS server with Ubuntu 8.04.1 – Part IV (a)

Since someone complained that Torrentflux with BitTornado eats a lot of CPU resources. I then switch to Torrentflux-b4rt with BitTornado. Torrentflux-b4rt is a fork of Torrentflux but it is completely rewritten by the developers for the current version. The current version is still in beta 2 at this writing.
I have tested the [...]

HOWTO : Home made NAS server with Ubuntu 8.04.1 – Part VI

This part is also optional. The Samba is shared with Windows desktops that files stored in the Samba will be infected by virus. To prevent this, you should install the ClamAV, the open source anti-virus program for Linux that kills Windows virus.
ClamAV
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and append the following lines at the end of the [...]

HOWTO : Home made NAS server with Ubuntu 8.04.1 – Part V

This part is optional. The web server with PHP and MySQL is already running. Now, we are going to fine tune the Apache and PHP to make it running as faster as possible. The kernel can also be optimized too.
Apache
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-bw libapache2-mod-fastcgi
sudo a2enmod deflate
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
Edit the file /etc/apache2/conf.d/deflate.conf :
sudo [...]

HOWTO : Home made NAS server with Ubuntu 8.04.1 – Part IV

Your Samba server and vsFTPd server are running smoothly. Now, we are discussing the installation of remote BitTorrent feature.
You can access your remote BitTorrent server anywhere at anytime. The server requires Apache, PHP and MySQL. They have been installed when you install your Ubuntu Server that selecting the LAMP option.
BitTorrent
sudo apt-get install [...]

HOWTO : Home made NAS server with Ubuntu 8.04.1 – Part III

Now, your Samba file server is up and working. It is high time to configure the vsFTP server. Anonymous users can download your file from your FTP server but they cannot upload and change anything in it. Local users can access their local home directories (read and write) by using FTP client, [...]

HOWTO : Home made NAS server with Ubuntu 8.04.1 – Part II

Here comes the software installation. The first thing is to install the operating system – Ubuntu 8.04.1 Server Edition. The installation is quiet straight forward and you should choose LAMP, OpenSSH and Samba (Print server is optional) during the installation. Use a more complicate but easy to remember password as the user password and MySQL [...]

HOWTO : Home made NAS server with Ubuntu 8.04.1 – Part I

There are many NAS for home users in the market, such as Synology, Qnap, LinkStation and etc. They are not in good performance and not cheap in price. However, they are good in less power consumption. It is because I owned not only one brand of such products at home now.
Recently, I [...]