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Rsync on Windows

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Installing RSYNC on Windows 2003/2000/NT. With thanks to "Mike McHenry" who wrote the original "Rsync on NT" document. Modified 07/24/03 by Brent Norris for corrections and updates. Modified 4/20/06 by Brent Norris to update files in rsync.zip to newest versions. This document assumes that you want to install rsync as a daemon on a Windows NT/2000/2003 server or XP, without installing the entire cygwin suite. You will need the following files:. These are available from http:/ www.cygwin.com. You should n...

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Linux DVD Howto

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DVD Ripping and Encoding Under Linux. I know a few people that are reluctant to switch over to Linux for a few things that they already know how to do under Linux and they don't want to have to relearn how to do it, or they think that they have to learn a bunch of shell commands to get it things done under Linux. Hopefully this will help out with both of those problems. Lots of Hard Drive Space. Network, the faster the better To take advantage of Clustering. Rpm -Uvh *.rpm. This will sort the pacakages i...

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VideoLan Frontends

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Inside our network we had several places where we wanted to have VideoLan streams displayed continously. It was important to make these machines fairly robust and fairly user unfriendly. We didn't want people messing with them other than to watch what they were displaying. Once you get up into the OS, go ahead and upgrade it to the lastest packages. That should just make things go smoother later when you are installing VLC and setting it up. VideoLan Client setup for this is pretty easy. Really all w...

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Ext2 to Ext3

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Ext2 to Ext3 - Mini How-to. Things you will need:. Newest kernel (goto Kernel.org. Alan Cox's -ac patches. Latest Version of e2fsprogs. Un{b/g}zip and untar the kernel source into the. Run the following command:. This will apply Alan's patch to the fresh kernel source. Configure your kernel to include support for ext3 (under the filesystems submenu). Compile the kernel in the usual way. Don't forget to add it to lilo. To whatever directory you have the e2fsprogs and Un{b/g}zip and untar them. Well ok the...

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SAMBA 3 using Windows AD Howto

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SAMBA 3 Authenticating to a Windows 2003 Active Directory. If you have problems with this howto you can post questions or comments to my blog post. Everything done in this howto is done with root permissions. It is always best to start out with a completely updated machine:. Next it is important to make sure that you have the Kerberos files on your machine:. Yum install krb5-server krb5-workstation. Next you need to edit the. Default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log. Kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log. Importan...

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Video Streaming with VLC

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Streaming Video Signals with VideoLan Client. Using the VideoLan Client to stream video. This is just a desciption of the process that I went through to get the VideoLan Project. S client ( VLC. Install and update your Linux box. Rpm -qa kernel kernel-smp rpm -e output of previous command, minus the running kernel. This will make sure you have the latest kernel and that it is the one that is running. Yum config and IVTV setup. Name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch. Gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 [...

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Linux use in Education

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Using Linux in an Education Environment. While work ing for Edmonson County Schools. I have had the opportunity to work on and develop several projects using Linux. While most of the time these projects are behind the scenes, there have been a few times when Linux has been deployed out in the schools themeselves. This page will catalog some of the various projects that I have worked on and developed. Using a program called PXES. And pulling files off of them. I then use use hardlink on the Linux mach...

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Kernel 2.4.0pre4

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This information is old, please look at this page. For more up-to-date™ info. ). Links to Information and Files. The first step to compiling the new kernel is to download it from the kernel.org ftp site:. Kernel 2.4 Directory. Next it is important to understand what is in the new kernel and how the stuff works. The help features can be a great help on this. New Features in the 2.3 Developmental Kernel. LVM-How-To (One of the new features in the 2.4 Kernel). Kernel How-To (Helpful in compiling the Kernel).

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Untitled Document

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I started this when the current release of Redhat was titled Guinness (release 7.0). It did not install LILO to the boot partition of the hard drive during a network install. I had to run several of these installs for the CS lab where WKU-Linux. Resides and I got tired of working through the same 10 steps to get it installed on the machine correctly. This script does it for you with a minimum of effort on the operator’s part. The main things you will need to run the script are the following:.