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Archive All Incoming & Outgoing Mails in Zimbra / Postfix

March 4, 2013

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My friend using Zimbra at his office asked me that if there’s any possibilities to keep all incoming and outgoing mails of all users in separate location where his boss can see the mails while users are unaware of it After few Google searches I found the solution. It basically auto bcc all inbound and [...]

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Prolink PHS300 Dongle on Ubuntu

February 22, 2013

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First of all, I must admit that I’m not a geek. I started to use FOSS in 2009 just because I didn’t wanted to use pirated softwares since that would be breaching the second precept of Buddhist Five Precepts. However, recently I bought a mobile internet connection with a dongle from Etisalat. Before buying the [...]

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Rsync Script With File Versioning by Date

February 19, 2013

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This script I’m using on my file server when mirroring the data from primary hard drive to backup and external hard drive. Which basically checks for the files which have been modified or deleted on primary by comparing backed up data on the backup drive and then move the unmodified and undeleted files from backup [...]

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Multi Logins on Skype [no softwares needed]

February 18, 2013

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As usual I was just working and suddenly wanted to use Skype to call my friend. No big deal!! Because, anyone can do such a thing by logging out from the existing and signing in with the one you needed. But there are very few who may need both to be logged in within one [...]

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Zimbra 8.0 Outgoing SMTP Authentication

October 19, 2012

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zimbra

Recently I’ve installed zimbra 8.0 on one of my client’s server, but I couldn’t use existing wiki instructions to relay outbound mails through no-ip. After few searches, found the solution in zimbra forums. In brief we have to use zmlocalconfig instead of postconf. Follow the instructions below to enable outgoing smtp authentication in zimbra 8.0 [...]

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Hide & Password Protect uTorrent with Boss-Key

October 5, 2012

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uTorrent GeekLK

We always wanted this, just to hide uTorrent from appearing on windows taskbar and avoid others from accessing it. Without using any other softwares to hide icons in taskbar now we have hiding feature built-in to uTorrent along with password protected access called ‘boss key’. Here’s how to do configure it. And I wouldn’t recommend [...]

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How to Change Network Interface Name in Ubuntu (eth1 to eth0)

September 25, 2012

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Network Interface Card

When last time I replaced the network card on my Ubuntu server and I couldn’t get the network to work.  Then I found ‘eth1‘ instead of ‘eth0‘ in ‘ifconfig’. But configuration was set to ‘eth0′ in ‘/etc/network/interfaces‘ file. So the solution is to rename ‘eth1′ back to ‘eth0′ as follows. In Ubuntu edit the following file. [...]

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Setup a Headless Transmission Client in Ubuntu 12.04

August 10, 2012

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Transmission headless

After searching for a solution to run Transmission BitTorrent client as a service (daemon) instead of opening manually and keep the running icon on the desktop and found ‘transmission-daemon’ package which will let us to run Transmission in a headless server or in our own NAS. Transmission daemon can be accessed by its’ web interface [...]

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Track post views in wordpress with post meta [no plugins required]

July 20, 2012

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WordPress is a pretty amazing CMS package unlike blogger. Reason for that is, you don’t have to dig into codes much for modifications as there’ll be a plug-in for sure to fulfill your requirement. But overloading your custom wordpress site with plug-ins may also cause site loading issues, style issues.. etc. Well, this time I wanted a [...]

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Broadcast Audio Online with Icecast Darkice and ezstream

July 19, 2012

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Icecast

If you ever wanted to broadcast your own voice or a mp3 playlist, here’s the solution for that. When I was exploring about online broadcasting, I found two popular audio broadcasting applications those are Shoutcast (Windows) and Icecast (Linux). In this guide I’ll setup an Icecast server in Ubuntu. The reason why I choose to Linux based [...]

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