How to create or add swap file on Linux and FreeBSD

August 6, 2010November 19, 2015Fuad NAHDI 2

Sometime you need to increase swap memory to run softwares that need more swap as the requirement or to improve the system performance. In this article I will show you on how to add more swap by adding a swap file on Linux and FreeBSD. We will create 1 GB or 1024 MB swap size. [...]

How to set static or fixed IP address using DHCP

August 2, 2010Fuad NAHDI Comment

By using DHCP you can set the computers to be static or fixed IP address. You might want to do IP-based policy for some of workstations inside you Local Area Network (LAN) and it makes easier to do IP-base policy this way. This tutorial shows you how to set static or fixed ip address using DHCP. [...]

How to install Eclipse SDK 4.0 on Linux (Slackware 13.1)

July 30, 2010Fuad NAHDI 1

The Eclipse SDK 4.0 had been released on July 28th, 2010 just two days ago. The goals for this release are to be the next generation platform for building eclipse-based tools and rich client desktop application. This article will show you how to install Eclipse SDK 4.0 on Linux, in this I use Slackware 13.1. [...]

How to install Flock Browser on Slackware 13.1

July 7, 2010Fuad NAHDI Comment

Flock is a social web browser that pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what’s important to them. The current latest stable version is v2.6.1. This tutorial will show you how to install Flock 2.6.1 on Slackware 13.1 [...]

How to install Opera Browser in Linux (Slackware 13.1)

July 7, 2010July 8, 2010Fuad NAHDI Comment

Opera is claimed as the fastest web browser on earth even some benchmarks show that it is beaten by Google Chrome. It is OK. We will not talk about browser benchmarking here. In this tutorial I want to show you how to install Opera Browser 10.60 on Linux (in this case I use Slackware 13.1) [...]

How to install Adobe PDF Reader on Linux

May 24, 2010June 8, 2012Fuad NAHDI 3

Install Adobe Reader on Linux is easy. Here are the full steps how to install it on Linux. This tutorial should be applicable on various Linux distributions such as Slackware, Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat and others. [...]

How to install Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) on Linux

May 19, 2010June 8, 2012Fuad NAHDI 2

In this tutorial I want to show you how to install Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) on Linux. This tutorial should be applicable to various Linux distributions such as Slackware, Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos, Redhat and others. [...]

How to install Netbeans on Linux

May 19, 2010June 8, 2012Fuad NAHDI 7

In this tutorial I want to show you how to install Netbeans on Linux. This tutorial is applicable in various Linux distributions such as Slackware, Ubuntu, Centos, Fedora, Redhat et cetera. The current stable version of Netbeans is Netbeans 6.8 but there is also a new beta version of Netbeans which has many new features and improvements than the previous one so in this tutorial we will use Netbeans 6.9 Beta. [...]

How to create tunnel interface in Linux

April 19, 2010June 8, 2012Fuad NAHDI Comment

This tutorial will show you on how to create a tunnel interface in Linux (Slackware, Centos, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, etc). To create a tunnel interface, you need to load/activate the ‘tun’ module first because it is unloaded/inactive by default. To activate it use ‘modprobe’ command as below [...]

How to trace source, destination IP addresses and ports using tcpdump

April 19, 2010June 8, 2012Fuad NAHDI Comment

Today I just has been alerted that there are too many ‘Relay access denied’ in my mail server. It is not normal. It must be any clients/workstations infected by viruses and try to relay to my mail server. [...]