There are many reason why you need to know how to block a website. If you want to restrict your children going to porn sites or sites which contain adult content. We know we can do it by keeping a proxy server. But keeping a proxy server needs some cost and also the traffic should direct from proxy server only. If your organization is in Linux LAN then keeping a proxy will be a risky thing.
Here is a small procedure [...]
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This quick tutorial will show you how to develop your own functional IM bot that works with Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and all other popular instant messaging clients. To get started, all you need to know are some very basic programming skills (any language would do) and web space to host your “bot”. I have created this using PHP. Using this I can creat a dummy bot called “mynewbot” that listens to your IM messages. To see this [...]
This is a simple article to setup a DNS Server in Ubuntu. Please follow the steps to make this. Setting up DNS Server is used to serve the new domain names using your IP. This is kind of providing webhosting.
Step1: We need to install bind 9 for this
sudo apt-get install bind9
Step 2: Configure the main Bind files. Usually, if you install Bind from the source code, you will have to edit the file named.conf. However, Ubuntu provides you with a [...]
Here is a nice article which tells about the gconftool. Using gconftool you can configure your gnome desktop environment by giving commands in the terminal. Let’s start about learning about gconftool
GConf is a configuration data storage mechanism scheduled to ship with GNOME 2.0. GConf does work without GNOME however; it can be used with plain GTK+, Xlib, KDE, [...]
This is a fork from Gyach Enhanced Yahoo! client for Linux operating systems. It was born purely out of impatience. Since there was no progress on Gyach Enhanced for about a year, a couple of impatient GYach Enhanced users decided to continue development of that client, fearing that original author Erica Andrews lost interest or abandoned project altogether. Therefore, in the true spirit of Open Source we, the developers, thought of simply “carrying on the torch”.
Below is the installation [...]
THIS IS A GREAT PLUGIN
Empower your webmail signatures in Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL.
WiseStamp a signature creator includes many exciting and improved webmail signature fetchers such as:
New Features:
? Add your personal feeds (rss)- Automatically Share blog posts, bookmarks, videos, daily quotes in your signature.
? Renaming signatures
Features:
? Personally designed signatures
? Easy setup and configuration interface
? Automatically insert your signature
? Use multiple email signatures (Business and Personal)
? Add your logo or image to your signature
? Easily link to all of [...]

