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[ubuntu] How to set up a smallest possible server with defined list of features?view story

http://ubuntuforums.org – I am trying to set up a VPN client on the base of Ubuntu Server, with a defined list of features, but still don't succeed with all steps. I am quite sure that I have forgotten some stuff or do it the wrong way. I don't want the following stuff to be done with Ubuntu Desktop, because it comes with too much overhead for the purpose. (Hardware)

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Crunchbang Hell - A True Storyview story

http://crunchbanglinux.org – A couple of days ago I downloaded the latest Ubuntu. I made a bootable usb using the built in USB creator. It worked very nicely and I liked that it allowed me to actually use the OS. What I mean is, I was able to change settings and save documents.Then I realised that I'd never made a bootable usb with #! so last night I set about doing it. (HowTos)

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pulsemix - CLI PulseAudio volume controlview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – You seem to have put a link to cower in the package instead of to pulsemix, haha. Besides that this looks really great! is it  possible to set the volume above 100% with this? If it could, I'm sold and I'd even install pulse again! MOPSTER https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=58570 2012-05-11T04:35:16Z (HowTos)

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How to install FreeNX on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolinview story

http://www.humans-enabled.com – Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that I am a vocal (and perhaps tireless) advocate of FOSS/GNU/Linux. I loves me some FOSS and GNU/Linux and I really like to help others with it as well!So after writing my post: How to install NX Free Edition on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, I will follow it up with a story about FOSS. (HowTos)

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fetchmail to log complete messages AND pass to mdaview story

http://unix.stackexchange.com – I couldn't seem to tell from the fetchmail man page or http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-man.html#7 whether --bsmtp <filename>.bsmtp.log, applied from cli/cronjob, and --mda <command> applied from varying fetchmailrc config files are mutually exclusive. I am hoping not as I am trying to keep a "filename.bsmtp.log" for failover purposes on dedicated machine-email accounts, a (HowTos)

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gptview story

http://chakra-project.org – Sorry about this, a bit of an issue with wiki's.  It is a known issue now that you cannot use GUI for setting up for GPT, you have to use the cli method in the wiki, and that warning was there, I'll reverse the edit that removed the warning. (HowTos)

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Script: Connect and Debug to Samba NASview story

http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Heyas As some might have recently, i've had some issues to connect to my NAS. Figured i made mistakes, but have learned a bit on the road, which the Fedora Community shall benefit from. At least i hope its helpful ;) Features: * Create a credentials file * Connect to a single share on NAS, using cli. * Mount all directory to local environment * Easier debugging, collect data that helps you debug (HowTos)

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Here, have a GUIview story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – I agree with the OP that some it's nowadays unnecessarily difficult/inelegant to accomplish certain tasks with CLI apps. For me the gold standard is the traditional UNIX application stack in its current resurrected form (bash, vim, tail, rsync...). (HowTos)

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gnupg - how to paste a password into a dialog window?view story

https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi all!When you encrypt a filegpg -c fileyou are asked for a password which I can't figure out how to paste from a clipboard. I tried Shift+Ins, MouseMiddleButton - no luck. (HowTos)

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Unable to retrieve PHP.INI module optionsview story

http://forums.cpanel.net – Hi I am unable to retrieve the PHP.ini settings using the api. (HowTos)