How To Configure a Mail Server Using Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, and SpamAssasin

In this article, we are going to show you how to configure a electronic mail server using Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL and SpamAssassin on Ubuntu 12.04. Following this tutorial you'll be able to add virtual domains, users, and aliases. Moreover, your virtual server will be secure from spam hub.

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Nokia MixRadio now has 30-million tracks

Mobile music streaming service Nokia MixRadio, this week announced the addition of 30 millionth track to its international catalogue. The track, ‘Ma Tegi Hena’ is by Lebanese artist Nancy Ajram and is from the forthcoming album Nancy8. Currently, the South African service boasts an impressive

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How to Use PowerShell Script to Deploy a New Active Directory Forest

In this article we are going to show you how to setup active directory domain services with PowerShell script. Deploying Active Directory Domain Services was not so simple but the power of PowerShell made it so

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How to migrate iSCSI datastores to NFS datastores in a VMware ESX host

This article describes how to migrate iSCSI datastores to NFS datastores from a VMware ESX host. You might want to complete this procedure for the following reasons:

iSCSI is not the right choice for your datastores based on the performance or stability of the Isilon iSCSI implementation. If you deploy a large number of virtual machines (VMs) from a large number of iSCSI LUNs, then there will be a resource exhaustion, when the resources necessary to perform an action are entirely consumed and LUNs might become read-only when there are multiple concurrent sessions, when multiple iSCSI clients are accessing the same VM simultaneously.

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How to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 and Windows 8

Ubuntu offers three ways to launch the operating system without destroying Windows. Two of these options require a bootable Ubuntu CD or USB drive. In this article we'll discuss how to set up those devices and install Ubuntu alongside Windows.

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Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 14.04

When you first create a new server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup. This will increase the security and usability of your server and will give you a solid foundation for subsequent actions.

Step One -- Root Login

To log into your server initially, you will need to know your server's public IP address and the password for the "root" user's account. For servers on DigitalOcean, you will receive an email with your server credentials and the server's IP address.

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Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) Stack on Ubuntu 14.04

WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management system) in the world. It allows you to easily get your site or blog up and running. After installation, you can manage almost everything in an easy web interface.

In this guide, we will go over how to install WordPress on an Ubuntu 14.04 server. For the web server component, we will use nginx, a powerful and efficient web server that has seen wide adoption due to its performance capabilities.

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