The new java implementation of Microsoft’s network protocol CIFS was released by Alfresco provider of Content Management System of the same name under GPL: JLAN provides a CIFS server as well as CIFS client and is being characterised as an “embedded virtual file system” by Alfresco which supports various authentication methods (e.g. Kerberos) and works on Windows, Linux, MacOS X, and Solaris.

This document describes how to set up Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu 7.04. OCR means “Optical Character Recognition”. The resulting system will be able to convert images with embedded text to text files. Tesseract is licensed under the Apache License v2.0.

Nowadays, the iSCSI technology is quite popular in the storage world. This article shows an iSCSI demo environment which consists of one Debian Linux host and one Netapp Filer.We try to show the most important features of this protocol.

Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to use ntfs-3g on a Fedora 7 desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions.

This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos). I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for lighttpd’s mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.

So you were playing with your Apt sources.list and somehow ruined it. No matter how hard you try you cannot get it back. Every time you try to install a package you get error messages. Now what? Don’t despair … I’ve been there and found an easy answer: The Aptitude Source-O-Matic: http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/

Sourcefire, the company that bought the SNORT OpenSource project some time ago, acquired today the ClamAV antivirus project.

From the press Release:

“Open source innovator and SNORT® creator, Sourcefire, Inc. today announced the acquisition of leading open source gateway anti-virus technology provider, ClamAV. Sourcefire will continue to develop and offer ClamAV as an open source (GPL) solution, while also leveraging it throughout the commercial Sourcefire Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) offerings.”

The ClamAV project released a FAQ to answer common questions regarding the aquisition.

According to an article on phoronix.com, the OpenSource ATI driver makes good progress and supports now TV out.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to create a highly available VMware Server environment on a Debian Etch system. With this tutorial, you will be able to create Virtual Machines that will be available on multiple systems with failover/failback capabilities.

IBM tutorial about Linux administration trough SSH. “The typical UNIX® administrator has a key range of utilities, tricks, and systems he or she uses regularly to aid in the process of administration. There are key utilities, command-line chains, and scripts that are used to simplify different processes. Some of these tools come with the operating system, but a majority of the tricks come through years of experience and a desire to ease the system administrator’s life.”