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If you want to play musics (MP3 files) in UNIX/Linux platform, you can choose to use XMMS, Songbird, Amarok ,Rhythmbox and others. Since I use Gnome window manager on my Centos 5.4, I use Rhythmbox to play MP3 music files. However when I first run the Rhythmbox program, I got error messages telling me that ‘The Gstreamer plugins to decode MP3 files cound not be found”, so I need to install the plugins.
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You want to install Huawei E220 USB Modem on Centos 5.4 and use the modem to access internet? If you use Slackware 12.2 or Fedora 12, click here for Slackware 12.2 or here for Fedora 12 to follow the tutorials.

It is very easy to do this. CentOS 5.4 that using kernel 2.6.18-164 is smart enough to autodetect the device so you do not need huaweiAktBbo-i386.out tool to switch the modem to the correct mode for serial port. In my case, it is detected and attached to ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1. When you connect the modem to your laptop or PC via USB port, continue reading…

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My email server is using Postfix as the MTA and Clamav as the anti-virus software running on Centos 5. Today I check the version of Clamav installed on it and it is already out-dated so I need to upgrade to the latest stable version. The installed version of clamav is ClamAV 0.94 whereas the latest stable version is ClamAV 0.95.2.
Upgrading clamav installed on Centos is easy. You just first backup the current configuration of clamav (/etc/clamd.conf and /etc/freshclam.conf). continue reading…

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