Tutorials and tips Archive

  • Setting up your own DNS part 3: Configuring bind9

    Setting up your own DNS part 3: Configuring bind9

    This is part 3 of a 3 part series. You should also read Part 1 : Getting started Part 2 : Basic configuration The place for bind9 configuration files can differ a little between Linux distributions. On Ubuntu servers they are located in /etc/bind with the zonefiles placed under /etc/bind/zones . The standard install of bind9 on Ubuntu server [...]

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  • Setting up your own DNS part 2: Basic configuration

    Setting up your own DNS part 2: Basic configuration

    This is part 2 of a 3 part series. You should also read Part 1 : Getting started Part 3 : Configuring bind9 Editing configuration files in Linux can be a daunting task for a person that is new to the whole concept. I do it when I have to and have done it a lot over the [...]

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  • Setting up your own DNS part 1: Getting started

    Setting up your own DNS part 1: Getting started

    I have been playing with Linux for the last 15 years, but lately I have taken it to a whole new level. On my laptop I have set up a dual boot with Windows XP and Kubuntu, and after almost half a year of running this combination, I am amazed at how few times I [...]

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  • How to set up dual boot

    How to set up dual boot

    Funny how much time a man can spend on technology. I got myself a new harddisk for my laptop. A 320GB WesternDigital with 16MB cache spinning at 7200 rpm. Great. But how do I move from the old 100GB harddisk to the new one? So I decided to do a bit of research before doing it. And [...]

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  • Test of new picture options

    Test of new picture options

    I have just upgraded three WordPress based blogs to version 2.5.1 by using an excellent plug-in for automatic upgrades. While I do not consider it the final solution (I think this should be a part of the basic WordPress set-up), it is certainly a big step in the right direction. One of the things that [...]

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  • How to remove a white background with the Remove White plugin

    How to remove a white background with the Remove White plugin

    If you use Photoshop to isolate objects from their white background, you might have heard of a small plugin called Remove White. I used it back in the days of Photoshop 5 and really loved the way you could lift out any object from the white background with a click. If any pixel was not completely [...]

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