Do you have multiple machines around your house that would like to share a centralized server for multi-media? Having such a server for music allows for consolidation, ease of use, and space saving on client PCs. Of course to many users, the idea of setting up a multi-media server sounds like it would be a [...]

Tags: DAAP, itunes, mp3 server, multimedia server, music server, songbird
Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

The Xbox Media Center arrived in 2004 and became popular so quickly that it became clear more ports would be needed. So the XBMC team allowed this tool to evolve into a cross platform media center that would run on just about anything you can think of.  But, of course, the purpose of this article [...]

Tags: media center, multimedia, video playback
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Tutorials Advanced, software

If you are familar with KDE you know Konqueror. Konqueror used to be one of the finest file managers on the PC desktop – period. But now KDE has migrated toward a simpler, more user-friendly file manager (Dolphin) and pushed Konqueror to serve as a web-browser only. That does not mean Konqueror can not be [...]

Tags: file manager, KDE, kio_slaves, Konqueror, split view browser
Categories: Browsing, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Search Engines, Tutorials Basic, software

So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]

Tags: Email, email filtering, Postfix, spam, SPAM scoring
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced

File synchronization can come in handy in several situations. Think of users with multiple computer systems, e.g. a desktop PC and a laptop or netbook. File synchronization can help them to synchronize emails, bookmarks, spreadsheets and every other kind of data that was created or changed on one of the computer systems. It can also [...]

Tags: file sync, file synchronization, free file sync, linux software, Open Source, windows software
Categories: Linux, Windows, software

By now you have your Postfix mail server up and running (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delievery“). You even have relaying working (see “Mail relaying made simple with Postfix“). But one of the most important features you can add to a mail server is an system to prevent viruses from being passed to users. [...]

Tags: anti virus, Postfix, virus definitions
Categories: Advice, Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Tutorials Advanced, software

With your Ubuntu LAMP Server up and running (see my previous article “Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04” and “How to: install a LAMP server“) and you are ready to set it up as a mail server. For the longest time Sendmail was the de facto standard Linux mail server. But over time serious security issues drove [...]

Tags: Email, mail server, Postfix, ubuntu mail server
Categories: Email, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software