Tutorials

Script to monitor assigned IP address on a local network

Jun 19th, 2009 | By Roma | Category: CentOS

I wanted to monitor all assigned IP addresses on my local network. Since I have a hardware router/DHCP server, looking at the DHCP table was not an option. So I wrote a script on a CentOS Linux server.
You might need to install nmap on your distribution before using the script. On CentOS, install nmap with:

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Scalix: push mail on Nokia mobile phone with IMAP IDLE

Mar 12th, 2009 | By Roma | Category: Scalix

You have a Scalix server and you’re desperately looking for a free and easy solution to push email to your mobile phone. Just like anybody else, when you thinkĀ  about push mail, you really think BlackBerry. It’s so standard in these days… It has to be the solution! Well maybe not…
I’ve goggled extensively looking for [...]



Scalix : change the time messages stay in Deleted Items before being deleted permanently

Nov 3rd, 2008 | By Roma | Category: Scalix

In Scalix, messages present in the Deleted Items are kept in this folder for one day by default before being deleted.
This behavior can be changed globally at installation by modifying the userconf file or individually for each user.



Select the entire URL on a single click in Firefox’s address bar under linux

Sep 4th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: Tutorials

For those using Windows and Linux everyday, and who prefer the behavior of Firefox under Windows….



Samsung CLX-3160FN linux driver (tested on CentOS 5)

Jul 24th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: CentOS, Features

Samsung sells the Samsung CLX-3160FN network printer as Linux compliant. It is indeed packaged with their Unified Linux Driver on CD. Just in case you didn’t receive it, the whole package can be found on their download center. However, using this original driver will result in poor print quality, especially for text documents. So the [...]



List of supported languages by the wp-syntax plugin in WordPress for code highlighting

Jul 16th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: WordPress

The following languages are supported in the lang attribute:
abap, actionscript, actionscript3, ada, apache, applescript, asm, asp, autoit, bash, blitzbasic, bnf, c, c_mac, caddcl, cadlisp, cfdg, cfm, cpp-qt, cpp, csharp, css, d, delphi, diff, div, dos, dot, eiffel, fortran, freebasic, genero, gettext, glsl, gml, groovy, haskell, html4strict, idl, ini, inno, io, java, java5, javascript, kixtart, latex, [...]



WordPress permalink on CentOS 5 tutorial

Jul 11th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: CentOS, Features, WordPress

The installation of WordPress is simple and straightforward. Really. So I’m not going to detail the installation process, which is well documented here. However, the permalink feature does not work out of the box on a standard CentOs 5 distribution. Some changes have to be made in the apache configuration files to enable mod_rewrite in [...]



Backup/Restore Scalix mailboxes

Jul 10th, 2008 | By Roma | Category: Scalix

This script backups all Scalix mailboxes at once, and keeps the last three backups in a single compressed file. It’s inspired by an script found on the Scalix Wiki.