Jul 30, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Disable IPv6 In Fedora 21

Today we’ll learn how to disable IPv6 on Fedora 21. The steps will work on Fedora 19 – 22. Currently our network configuration these days does not require IPv6 support. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the... read more

Feb 21, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Create a CentOS Repository with mrepo

If you are a shop of any size and are building and maintaining CentOS servers, you know the need to maintain a repository with extras, updates and such. In this post we will cover how to build a repository on your network for building and maintaining CentOS. Install mrepo sudo yum -y install mrepo Edit /etc/mrepo.conf and add set the directories Create mrepo config file in /etc/mrepo.conf.d ###... read more

Jan 28, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Editing and Viewing RAW images in GIMP 2.8

Introduction In this post I have decided to post some fun items on Linux. When I was in high school I was very much into art and that has continued on through out my adult life. DSLR cameras bring us RAW images which are big and uncompressed images in which we can make our own changes to the images. By default GIMP does not know how to handles the images so we turn to UFRaw (http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/)... read more

Jan 26, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Install WordPress on Fedora 20

Introduction WordPress is a free and open source website and blogging tool that uses PHP and MySQL. WordPress is currently is a CMS (Content Management System. It is easy to setup websites and customize. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to get a WordPress instance set up with an Apache web server, PHP and MariaDB on Fedora 20. Prerequisites Before we can install and configure WordPress we must first... read more

Nov 11, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Microsoft SQL drivers and unixODBC 2.3.0 on RHEL 6 64 bit

How To Install Microsoft SQL drivers and unixODBC 2.3.0 on RHEL 6 64 bit Microsoft’s SQL drivers can not use the 2.2.14 unixODBC installed with RedHat 6. It requires 2.3.0 which requires compiling and installing from source. First download the latest unixODBC from http://www.unixodbc.org/ . Put tarball in /tmp and extract. Extract the tar ball # tar xvzf unixODBC-2.3.0.tar.gz Change to the unixODBC-2.3.0... read more