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How To Stop AVG Scanner Hitting Apache Web Server

Posted: 04 Jul 2008 09:52 AM CDT

AVG anti-virus includes browser plugin called "Linkscanner" that scans all the links on search engine result pages for viruses and malicious code. Here is how you can block AVG Scanner under Apache.

Choosing UNIX / Linux Operating System Vendor / Software

Posted: 04 Jul 2008 09:17 AM CDT

UNIX or Linux distros offers many flavors. Managing many UNIX like operating systems can be difficult. Here are few tips about selecting one perfect operating system for your business and sticking it with to save both money and time.

How To Measure Linux Filesystem I/O Performance With iozone

Posted: 04 Jul 2008 08:15 AM CDT

IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many systems and runs under many operating systems including Windows, UNIX, Linux and BSD. This article gives you a jumpstart on performing benchmark on filesystem using iozone a free Filesystem Benchmark utility under Linux.

FreeBSD Configure IPv6 Networking / Static IP Address

Posted: 03 Jul 2008 06:38 PM CDT

How do I configure IPv6 networking under FreeBSD 7.x server? How do I assign IPv6 IP address using command line utility?

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Debian / Ubuntu Linux Install tracepath / traceroute6 / tracepath6 commands

Posted: 03 Jul 2008 06:04 PM CDT

I'm not able to run tracepath or tracepath6 under Debian Linux. tracepath is default under CentOS Linux. How do I install tracepath command under Debian Linux 4.x server? How do I find out what package owns the command under Debian / Ubuntu Linux?

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