BSD/Linux Tutorial Zone

How to build up IPv6 tunnel for FreeBSD

2011-03-07T14:33:00.010+08:00

Environment: * FreeBSD Box’s IPv4 address: 59.124.1.1 * Endpoint IPv4 address: 210.1.1.100 * Endpoint IPv6 address: 2001:b50c:004:20::1/64 * FreeBSD box’s IPv6 address: 2001:b50c:004:20::2/64 * The routed subnet: 2001:350:aaa5:acd::/64It's a easy way to enable IPV6 environment as below:#vi /etc/rc.confhostname="ipv6.domain.com"defaultrouter="59.124.1.254"ifconfig_fxp0="inet

How to Install 64bit Flash Player for Linux

2010-12-30T09:31:00.010+08:00

We both know the memory price that is very low right now so that many people can expand their memory over 4GB. Most of these people are installing 64-bit operating system allows a higher availability of their memory. However, someone don't know how to search 64bit flash player. I list the web address as below.http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.htmlIf you are using Linux system,

jolibooks is now available for UK

2010-11-24T16:50:00.005+08:00

Jolibooks's OS is Jolicloud that is a Linux distribution and base on Ubuntu. We can see the screen as follow:It look like contains all of popular web service and applications. The purpose of Jolibooks is to be a fleetly and friendly computer. It uses the prism so that all network services more quickly. If you have interested in it, please refer to the official web sitehttp://www.jolicloud.com/

K3b 2.0.0 has been releasd!

2010-06-29T09:57:00.004+08:00

We both knew that K3b was a great CD/DVD creator for Linux. It has released new version 2.0.0 recently. This version has improved Blu-ray support that was really a big effort. If you have interesting and want to know more about this version, please refer to the following Changelog.Changelog (since 1.0.5) * Port to KDE Platform 4 * Always allow manual writing speed selection * Use proper

A nice webui (avalanche-rt) for rTorrent

2010-06-17T09:18:00.009+08:00

I have yet to find satisfaction since I used to find webui for rtorrent. However, I recently found a nice web interface for rTorrent that was not only clean and beautiful but also contains many features. If you are interested, hurry to the following website to download it now!http://code.google.com/p/avalanche-rt/

New Orleans Saints Finally Won The Super Bowl

2010-02-09T15:11:00.004+08:00

It should be a great day for New Orleans Saints on 02/07. Saints have never won the super bowl before, but they finally took away the glory this week. It's the team's first win for Saints. This is an exciting pieces of result, especially when New Orleans was in the event of disaster. I am also very happy to see Saints could win this Super Bowl.

Using rTorrentweb to replace rtgui

2010-01-19T11:09:00.001+08:00

I have using rtgui be a web interface for rTorrent until now, however I found a new software that is rTorrentweb. It's really a very nice tool for rTorrent even better than rtgui. You maybe want to know why I would recommend to use it. Let's see my opinions as below:1. You can control all functions as rtgui2. It is a clear and beautiful interface3. Easy installationIf you are looking for the web

Using Stresslinux to test your computer

2009-12-07T16:12:00.002+08:00

Stresslinux 0.4.136 has been released recently. It's a openSUSE-based live CD for stress testing. This release (0.4.136) is the first one which is available as 32-bit and 64-bit build, contains all official updates from the base distribution and additionally updates the following packages to current versions: stress, nbench, nepim, netperf, lm_sensors, memtest86+ and busybox.If you want to know

FreeBSD 8.0 has been released!

2009-11-27T10:38:00.005+08:00

It was a great news for me when I learned that FreeBSD 8.0 already released yesterday. This release version improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many new features. One of these new features, I pay more attention to the function of support for 802.11s. If you have interested in these new features, you can refer to the following introduction. Xen Dom-U, VirtualBox guest

Using QStarDict to replace Stardict in openSUSE 11.2

2009-11-24T16:03:00.004+08:00

I was using Stardict for a long time in openSUSE 11.1, but it could not work after I upgraded a number of packages. I always see the screen that be stuck in the Loading of the phenomenon even installed openSUSE 11.2 this problem still can't be solved. Fortunately, there is a specific Qt package for KDE environment can be used normally, it called QStarDict. It's a translation package like Stardict

piaiprchack_v1.13 patch for "Restaurant City" of Facebook has been released

2009-11-12T14:07:00.005+08:00

According to the official web site release information, new version piaiprchack_v1.13.exe patch has been released! If you ware playing "Restaurant City", you can upgrade your patch version to 1.13, because old version should not be able to operate correctly. Playfish may fix some bugs for their "Restaurant City", so if you need it, you can download it from the below link right now.http://

"Personas" is a nice skin add-on for Firefox

2009-11-03T15:59:00.006+08:00

Today, I attempt to find out which one add-on can replace my skin of Firefox, and easy to install. "Personas" is a best choice for me when I attempted to install many skin add-ons. If you also want to make your Firefox to be beautified, you shall try to install it.Step 1: Download and Install it from the below link.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900Step 2: Restart your Firefox

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic is now available!

2009-10-30T10:52:00.017+08:00

One major thing that happened yesterday! That was Ubuntu has announced Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and contained Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu. Many different editions are also included in this release, and could be found on official website such as Netbook Remix, Desktop Edition, Server Edition and so on...Today, I tried to install Ubuntu 9.10 in Xen Virtual Machine of openSUSE 11.1. This

Stardict "loading" problem in openSUSE 11.1

2009-10-29T11:04:00.011+08:00

I encountered a problem of Stardict in openSUSE 11.1 recently. It always stayed in "loading" status when I executed this application as below snapshot. That was a strange situation and have never appeared before. However, this problem appeared in my system after the KDE upgraded to 4.3. Although I tried to downgrade KDE, but still useless.This is my first time to encounter this problem and this

FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 has been released!

2009-10-29T09:38:00.009+08:00

Windows 7 has been released and joined the war of software market recently. So Linux accelerate preparations for an official version of the next release in the market. Many distributions are also do that such as openSUSE, Ubuntu. Both of them will be released the new version soon in the next few days. Especially, Ubuntu 9.10 may be able to appear this week. The official version of the FreeBSD

Using WordPress Mobile Edition to make your website to be browsed by mobile

2009-10-28T14:59:00.001+08:00

Today, I attempted to browse my site from the mobile, but it seems unable to browse. So I tried to search about Wordpress plugin from Google. After a period of searching I found this plug-in Wordpress mobile edition. It can be very simple to install in your Wordpress website, and no additional settings. If you want to try it, you can follow my simple steps as below: Step 1. Search this plugin and

How to activate the hidden Administrator account in Windows 7 or Windows Vista

2009-10-27T16:28:00.001+08:00

Microsoft's Windows operating system has added UAC function and hidden the administrator account since Windows Vista first came out. However, many people still want to use the administrator account to login to their computer. If you want to activate this account, you need to turn off UAC and then refer to the following steps to enable Administrator account.Step 1. Please input cmd command and

Using amd daemon to automount your external devices in FreeBSD

2009-10-26T11:20:00.001+08:00

We both know that all of the current Linux distribution can automatically mount all of the external hard drive such as usb flash drives, CDROM, usb disk and so on.... However, another bsd systems ware still necessary to manually mount all of the device no matter FreeBSD or openBSD, but in fact there is a way to let you mount external devices automatically when you insert a flash drive in your

Microsoft Windows 7 released on October 22

2009-10-23T18:06:00.001+08:00

I think that will be a great event in the history of Microsoft to release Windows 7 this month. Microsoft has no further chance of failure since released Windows Vista last time! Actually, I have to say something about Windows Vista that is really difficult to use no matter on the stability and performance both worse than Windows XP. Windows 7 is a nice operation system for me when I was using

How to connect to internet through pppoe on Fedora

2009-10-22T23:35:00.003+08:00

Today, my friend ask me to capture some pictures about internet connection steps for Fedora. He was using Windows XP and connect to Internet through pppoe connection. However, his Windows system isn't stable right now, so want to try Fedora 12 beta. I has summarized steps to connect to internet through on Fedora 12 beta. If you also don't know how to connect to internet on Fedora, please refer to

A strange problem installing fedora 12 beta as guest OS on xen with openSUSE

2009-10-21T16:20:00.000+08:00

Due to the Fedora 12 beta has been released, so I installed it as guest OS on xen virtual machine today. However, when I installed it at the last package a strange problem appears that the installation screen will be stuck and didn't continue to next step. You can see the snapshot as below:I do not know what caused the installation can not continue, but this screen has been stopped for 30 minutes

A great news: Fedora 12 beta is now available!

2009-10-20T23:06:00.002+08:00

Fedora has just released a new beta version of Fedora 12. This also means the final official version will be released soon. So this information is very important for Linux user. Especially, so many operation systems will release final version such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Windows 7...Fedora 12 beta has improved a lot of features, and fixed a lot of bugs. If you want to try it, please check the

MOPSLinux 7.0 alpha 2.7 released

2009-10-19T21:40:00.005+08:00

Another distro MOPSLinux 7.0 alpha 2.7 has been released that is based on Slackware distribution. It's a Russian vendor so that you will see the russian language in their website. If you don't understand russian language, please see the following translated contents which translated by Google Translate.Release Announcement:We are happy to announce the next release of development version -

How to use xvidcap to record steps on Linux openSUSE

2009-10-19T17:52:00.010+08:00

Sometimes I have to use the software xvidcap to record the steps for each action. This way will be more convenient for users to understand when I am teaching them. We all know that you can find many of this type of software in Windows, but there are only a small number of software have this capability in Linux. xvidcap is one of these softwares. Now, I want to share how to use it as follow:Step1:

New patch piaipRCHack_v1.12.exe of Restaurant City of Facebook has been released!

2009-10-14T23:08:00.009+08:00

A lot of people are playing a fackbook game 'Restaurant City'. This game is very popular in the world. If you are also playing 'Restaurant City', you maybe know what the piaipRCHack patch to do for 'Restaurant City' that will enhance your level and money quickly. This patch was developed by piaip. He is a program developer from Taiwan. The new version patch v1.12 was released by him recently.