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Qps Visual Process Manager is an X11 version of “top” or “ps” that displays processes in a window and lets you sort and manipulate them. It displays some general system information, and many details about current processes (such as the TCP/UDP sockets in use by a process). Qps runs on Linux and Solaris.

I finally got around to upgrading my Linksys WRT54GL home wireless router to an open-source firmware, dd-wrt. This was more confusing than it should have been, mainly due to the large number of options available for wireless router firmwares. However, once I got that all sorted out the actual install was surprisingly easy and satisfying. This howto contains my notes on that process.

An excellent tutorial on how to configure secure remote backups using rsnapshot and root ssh. Includes details on all the steps necessary to secure your root ssh keys and limit access.

ClipGrab is a free GUI Video downloader from the famous online video sharing websites like youtube, veoh, Dailymotion, MyVideo and many other. ClipGrab is very simple (basically just one window to work on). Clipgrab downloads the file and saves it by default to FLV (Flash Video) however can convert the downloaded video on the fly to Windows Video (WMV), MPEG4, MP3 (Audio), OGG Vorbis (Audio).

I recently had to migrate a CentOS 5 system from a single hard drive to a mirrored RAID configuration. Since I had set up the system with LVM originally I was able to do this (mostly) seamlessly while the machine was in production. This howto details the steps I took and the commands necessary to migrate the system.

Kdenlive free open-source non-linear video editor for KDE. Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies.

Krsync is a simple GUI frontend for the famous rsync to synchronize files and directories between systems or even two different directories on the same server. Krsync is a Kommander based GUI for rsync.

Deleting a file or reformatting a disk does not destroy your sensitive data. The data can easily be undeleted. That’s a good thing if you accidentally throw something away, but what if your trying to destroy financial data, bank account passwords, or classified company information. In this article you will learn number of tools(Shred,Wipe,srm, smem,sfill,sswap,DBAN) to delete files securely in GNU/ Linux

Some collected tips and tricks for sendmail and related mail utilities. For more documentation, see the cf/README, sendmail/SECURITY, and doc/op/op.ps files under the sendmail source...

Nice set of plesk qmail tips!