When you experience slow connection responses (login takes a long time), try disabling reverse dns lookups.
Edit “/etc/proftpd.conf” and change directive:
UseReverseDNS on
into
UseReverseDNS off
If this doesn’t work out try adding or changing the directive (must be turned off):
IdentLookups off
Archive for March 2008
Slow response on connecting to ProFTPD server (slow login)
XMMS, Audacious, BMP equalizer presets
When using XMMS, Audacious or BMP on Linux, some of you miss the equalizer presets from Winamp.
This is how you can get them in your linux distribution.
Write a shell script or just run these commands in your terminal:
#!/bin/bash
wget http://www.xmms.org/misc/winamp_presets.gz
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.xmms/eq.preset
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.config/audacious/eq.preset
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.bmp/eq.preset
The script will activate presets [...]
HOWTO make DVD and CD .iso images using dd or cat in Linux
Please note that making security backups of your DVD/CD:s may be illegal in your country.
for the purpose of making these backups, the programs you need are standard, *NIX programs, and it is a safe bet that you wont need to install anything.
You may also need to have root permissions in able for you to access [...]
Loading ...