Archive for July, 2006

My OLD Laptop Now Has WI-FI! Yours could too!!!

Friday, July 28th, 2006 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Not being on the cutting edge of technology, I purchased a used Compaq Armada this week. I have been wanting a Laptop, however I find most are loaded ... Read more..

A FRIEND IN SERIOUS HEALTH

Thursday, July 27th, 2006 Posted in Books | No Comments »

There are times when I hate to write. This is one. A friend of Geektimelinux.com, Ken Starks is in serious condition. For those not familiar with that ... Read more..

Secure Debian System Using FireHOL Firewall

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the ... Read more..

Nagios and Oreon (Nagios web front end) installation and Configuration

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux ... Read more..

A LINUX User Looks at XANDROS Desktop 4

Sunday, July 16th, 2006 Posted in Desktop, Installation, Xandros | No Comments »

I hope all have had a chance to digest Judi's non-technical review of XANDROS Desktop 4 Premium. I enjoyed it because it was the way I feel many people ... Read more..

Windows power user tries Xandros

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 Posted in Xandros | No Comments »

I recently performed an experiment at the request of my husband, GeekTimeLinux Dave. He was preparing to review the new Xandros distribution, which has been described as the perfect ... Read more..

Lighttpd Webserver Installation in Debian

Monday, July 10th, 2006 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small ... Read more..

Darkstat - Nework Traffic Analyzer or Network Monitor

Monday, July 3rd, 2006 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..