If you are in charge of dozen of Linux servers these days and therefore required to restart many of the servers with a support ticket (because many of the Data Centers where the servers are co-located does not have a web interface or IPKVM connected to the server for that purpose). Therefore the server restart [...]
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How to auto restart CentOS Linux server with software watchdog (softdog) to reduce server downtime
February 5th, 2012 
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Video Editor for Linux, Openshot 1.4.1 has been released
January 31st, 2012 Frank BorosOpenshot1.4.1 has been released! This was originally going to be a quick and simple bug fix release, but instead, has grown into a more full-featured release. This has been a very busy month for OpenShot, with a trip to SCALE 10x, a couple presentations, and now a new release! My head is still spinning,. Openshot1.4.1 [...]
How to Install Nginx with HTTPS support on CentOS
January 30th, 2012 Frank BorosNginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Igor Sysoev started development of Nginx in 2002, with the first public release in 2004. Nginx now hosts nearly 12.18% (22.2M) of all domains worldwide. As Netcraft predicted, Nginx now surpasses Microsoft IIS as the second most [...]
How to Split files on Linux FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
January 30th, 2012 Frank BorosDid you have the need to sometimes split an SQL extra large files to few pieces in order to be able to later upload it via phpmyadmin? Did you needed an extra large video or data file to be cut in few pieces in order to transfer it in few pieces over an USB stick? [...]
How to install the phpbb forum on Debian (Squeeze/Sid) Linux
January 30th, 2012 Frank BorosIn this tutorial you will learn how to install phpbb3 on Debian Linux phpBB forum is a free flat-forum bulletin board software solution that can be used to stay in touch with a group of people or can power your entire website. With an extensive database of user-created modifications and styles database containing hundreds of [...]
Installing Monit and Restart Apache Automatically on CentOS
January 29th, 2012 Frank BorosMonit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, programs, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. You can use Monit to monitor daemon processes or similar programs running on localhost. Monit is particular useful for [...]
Installing and Tweaking Homebrew on Mac OS X
January 23rd, 2012 Frank BorosHomebrew, like macports, helps you install some famous UNIX/Linux piece of software not directly bundled with OS X (or part of OS X, but outdated). Installing Homebrew Installing Homebrew is quite simple, and you can report at any moment to Homebrew web site to have updated install and how-to. Incoming search terms:ftp server on osx [...]
How to configure VirtualHost by different domains (nginx)
January 21st, 2012 Frank BorosProblem: I have two HTTP servers. One of them (A) is listening to port 3000 and the other one (B) is listening to port 4000. Also, I have two domains example1.com and example2.com. In the other hand, I have nginx server listening at port 80. I would like to get responses from server A when [...]
