Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL). A shared online demo can be found here. It’s been setup to give registered users the ability to… Read More
XenServer is an open source project and community managed by Citrix. The project develops open source software for securely running multiple operating systems and applications on a single device, enabling hardware consolidation and automation to reduce costs and simplify IT management of servers and applications. Citrix provides a commercial support and services for XenServer under… Read More
In my home shop, a lot of testing gets done using Virtualbox. As part of that testing backups are commonly made of virtual machines that mirror production configurations. I typically use thin provisioning on my test rigs. On of the things i have noticed is in working with the virtual machines the backups get very… Read More
DSPAM is a scalable and open-source content-based spam filter designed for multi-user enterprise systems. On a properly configured system, many users experience results between 99.5% – 99.95%, or one error for every 200 to 2000 messages. DSPAM supports many different MTAs and can also be deployed as a stand-alone SMTP appliance. For developers, the DSPAM… Read More
Spark is an Open Source, cross-platform IM client optimized for businesses and organizations. Features include: group chat, telephony integration, strong security, in-line spell checking, group chat room bookmarks, and tabbed conversations. Combined with the Openfire Server, Spark is the easiest and best alternative to using un-secure public IM networks. Spark IM Homepage
Openfire is a real time collaboration server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance. Openfire Server Homepage
Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and… Read More
To fix the problem, in “/etc/rsyslog.conf” create the following template line. $template sysklogd,”%TIMESTAMP% %syslogtag%%msg%” This is the same as the default template, but with the hostname removed (since sysklog will supply it). Then later in the file (it has to be later – templates have to be defined before you can use them) you just… Read More
Zentyal is a full-featured Linux server for small and medium businesses, that you can set up in less than 30 minutes. Zentyal Linux small business server can be configured as a Gateway, UTM, Infrastructure Manager, Office Server, Unified Communications Server or a combination of them. Zentyal offers small businesses a professional and secure IT solution,… Read More
Ever since Ebox Platform v2.0 was published, we have seen a lot of information on the net pertaining to customization. While Ebox, now Zentyal platform is an excellent base to start from, almost every installation we have done required some level of customization. As you may or may not know, all module configuration files on… Read More