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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Fedora Core 6</title>
	<link>http://blog.taragana.com</link>
	<description>News and views from a Software Architect and Web Entrepreneur on Java, PHP and Web 2.0 Technologies.</description>
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		<title>How to find ethernet / MAC address on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Linux networking is easy, you just have to know how. We will discuss below how you can find your own machine's MAC address for all the attached ethernet cards as well as MAC addresses on other machines in the network.

How to find Ethernet / MAC Address of ethernet cards in your machine
ifconfig -a
In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-find-ethernet-mac-address-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>How to install nVidia Driver on CentOS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you read, here is a bit of warning: Do not install the nVidia driver that you can download from nVidia.com. The driver may install fine but may not work as you expect. You are much better of following the procedure below.

Now I could repeat stuff from other website or I could say it succintly. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-on-centos/</link>
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		<title>Developer Tips: How To Show Line Number in vi / vim &amp; nano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers. A way to get them to display line numbers doesn't jump out easily from their big documentation, so here are my simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/developer-tips-how-to-show-line-number-in-vi-vim-nano/</link>
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		<title>How to Hack Root Password in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I am going to tell you the trick to hack your root passoword in Linux if you are too forgetful to remember it or you have legal permission to enter a server run by a different admin and by any chance he forgot to give you the root password.
Those Who Have GRUB bootloader

 The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-hack-root-password-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>How To Play All Multimedia Content on Fedora 9 Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All you have to do is run this simple one line command:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm &#38;&#38; yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc

Note: For earlier versions of Fedora just change the number to correspond to the appropriate version. For example for Fedora Core 6 the command will be:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm &#38;&#38; yum -y install vlc python-vlc mozilla-vlc
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-play-all-multimedia-content-on-fedora-9-linux/</link>
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		<title>One Linux Formatting Tip I Bet You Didn&#8217;t Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You probably know how you can format a Linux partition:
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda
This formats the partition with ext3 file system. However did you know how to extract maximum space out of this partition, especially if it a large partition?

How to maximize available space in a partition
Enter the magical -m option. If the file system becomes filled and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/one-linux-formatting-tip-i-bet-you-didnt-know/</link>
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		<title>Linux Tips: Bandwidth Monitoring, Common Commands, Accounting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linux Bandwidth monitoring tools and this (better explanations) - Instead of apt-get use yum install for RedHat based systems like Fedora, CentOS and obviously RedHat.

Common Linux commands - The description is terse. Use man or info for details.
Homebank is a popular accounting software to manage your personal accounts. HomeBank benefits from more than 12 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/linux-tips-bandwidth-monitoring-common-commands-accounting/</link>
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		<title>How To Append File Using SSH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever searched scp manual for ways to append a file using it? scp is an excellent command to rapidly copy files and directories to / from a remote location. Unfortunately it is of no help when you just want to append a file over ssh connection. Here is a simple solution to append [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-append-file-using-ssh/</link>
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		<title>How To Speed Up Opening Linux Terminal &amp; Running Linux Commands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most techies and developer prefer using the terminal on Linux. If you are like me a heavy command line interface (cli) user than you will find these simple tips useful.

How to speed up opening Linux terminal
Install roxterm. On Red Hat, Fedora, Cent OS or other yum based systems, it is as simple as:
yum -y install [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-speed-up-opening-linux-terminal-running-linux-commands/</link>
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		<title>Linux: How To Make RAID-1 Disks Independently Bootable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best part of Linux (imho) is the ability to replicate not only the operating system or the data but also the boot loader. This allows you to have two identical disks running RAID-1, each of which are independently bootable, should one of them fail. You can also add spare disks to the RAID-1 array [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/linux-how-to-make-raid-1-disks-independently-bootable/</link>
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		<title>Pros &amp; Cons of Software RAID versus Hardware RAID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my quest to find the better service between Software RAID &#38; Hardware RAID, I was caught RAID-handed among too many points and nitty-gritties of technical specifications and opinions. As a result of my explorations, I have developed a simple point-by-point structure to let you walk through this topic rather easily. First let us know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/which-one-is-better-software-raid-or-hardware-raid/</link>
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		<title>Java: How To Get Stacktrace of Any Local / Remote Java Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may run Java processes in the foreground or in many cases they may be run using cron jobs or during system startup, as background processes. How can you find out stacktraces of any running Java process? But first how can you even know their name &#38; process id's?
How to find process id (pid) of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-how-to-get-stacktrace-of-any-running-process/</link>
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		<title>How To Run Google Chrome Browser on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CodeWeaver's released a port of Google's Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser. CrossOver Chromium is free and available for download here.

The Linux port is just a proof of concept. Chromium itself is just beginning. As the Chromium project progresses, they will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-run-google-chrome-browser-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>How To Install RSSOwl (RSS News Reader) on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider this as the missing installation guide for RSSOwl on Linux. After spending hours trying to get it working I finally figured it out.

How to install RSSOwnl (RSS Reader) on Linux
Note: The instructions may have some Fedora / RHEL bias as I use Fedora Linux, but it is expected to work on all Linux variants.

Download [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-rssowl-rss-news-reader-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>How To Disable On-Demand CPU Scaling on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements. In such cases you may want to manually stop cpu speed daemon and restart it later again if required. Here are the required [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-disable-on-demand-cpu-scaling-on-linux/</link>
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		<title>How To Twitter Using IM on Linux &amp; Windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many like to twitter using IM (Instant Messenger) because it is very simple and fast to tweet and simple to get continuous updates on your topics of interest.
In the good old days Twitter used to provide IM support. You could use any Instant Messenger supporting Jabber (XMPP protocol) to connect to Twitter buddy (twitter@twitter.com) on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-twitter-using-im-on-linux-windows/</link>
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		<title>How To Automatically Start Nginx &amp; Fastcgi on Reboot on Fedora Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd. We are progressively transferring our sites over to nginx. Today when I had to restart the server, I realized [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-automatically-start-nginx-fastcgi-on-reboot-on-fedora-linux/</link>
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		<title>FATAL: Module off not found. - Solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may see the following error in Fedora 8 while starting / restarting the network (service network restart):
FATAL: Module off not found.
Let's see how we can fix this.
This happens because you have entered a line in /etc/modprobe.conf to disable ipv6:
alias ipv6 off
In Fedora 8 you should change it to:
options ipv6 off
Now restart network:
service network restart
You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fatal-module-off-not-found-solution/</link>
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		<title>How To Install Windows msi Files in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only. However you can also use it to open msi files as follows:
msiexec /i installer-file.msi
Replace installer-file.msi with your actual file name.
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-windows-msi-files-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>How To Use Linksys Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera WVC54GC From Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Linksys Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera WVC54GC is a Linux based wireless webcam with its own streaming web server built in. Windows users can view the video stream through their browser without the need to install any extra software other than allowing the supplied Active-X control to run. Unfortunately there isn't much in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-use-linksys-compact-wireless-g-internet-video-camera-wvc54gc-from-linux/</link>
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		<title>How To Speed Up Linux Desktop by 30%+</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am using Linux (Fedora Core 6) on a pretty high end hardware (at least when I bought it) - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz (4M shared L2 Cache) with 2 GB DDR2 RAM, nVidia dual-head graphics card for over a year now. And yet a simple change made it at least 20-40% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-speed-up-linux-desktop-by-30/</link>
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		<title>How To Rapidly Clean / Wipe Hard Disk Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to overwrite your hard disk with random characters
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda

How to overwrite your hard disk with zero characters
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
Replace sda / hda with your hard disk identifier.
Either of the procedure requires the system has Linux installed or accessible from Linux operating system. You can use a Live Linux distribution like Ubuntu Live CD [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-rapidly-clean-wipe-hard-disk-drive/</link>
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		<title>DansGuardian Configure Error Fix - configure: error: pcre-config not found!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On running ./configure in dansguardian (web content filter for Linux), I got the following error - configure: error: pcre-config not found!configure: WARNING: Cache variable ac_cv_prog_PCRE contains a newline.. The solution, as usual, is simple:

Install pcre-devel. On RedHat / Fedora systems that would be:
yum install pcre-devel
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dansguardian-configure-error-fix-configure-error-pcre-config-not-found/</link>
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		<title>Solution: Missing Dependency: faad2 &lt; 2.5 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs &amp; Error: vlc conflicts with faad2 &gt;= 2.5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen the error while installing a package using yum / yumex?
Error: vlc conflicts with faad2 >= 2.5
Error: Missing Dependency: faad2 < 2.5 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
The error is because of using freshrpms repository or other repository to install recent version of faad2. Now let's see how you can solve it.

This is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/solution-missing-dependency-faad2-25-is-needed-by-package-ffmpeg-libs-error-vlc-conflicts-with-faad2-25/</link>
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		<title>How To Copy Master Boot Record (MBR) Between Hard Disks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Linux you can use the dd command to copy MBR from one hard disk to another. You can also use dd to backup your master boot record to a different (or same) media. One of the common use of MBR copying is to ensure transparent fail-over in RAID-1 hard-disk array, should one  hard-disks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-copy-master-boot-record-mbr-between-hard-disks/</link>
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		<title>Mysterious Call From Microsoft Inquiring About Windows! &#8230; Evil Nexus With Dell?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just received a mysterious call from Microsoft inquiring about our Windows usage! I was surprised to say the least. Why would a 100% Linux based company get a call from Microsoft? Read on for the juicy details.

We are 100% Linux based company. We develop software products and deliver services in Java (cross-platform), PHP and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysterious-call-from-microsoft-inquiring-about-windows-evil-nexus-with-dell/</link>
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		<title>Load Balancing &amp; Failover Script for Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux with Mail on failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please read the original article - How To: Load Balancing &#038; Failover With Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux. It contains detailed information with a sample script. Viliam Kočinský modified my script to send email when routing table changes. Also he is starting the script as a service from /etc/init.d. Read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/load-balancing-failover-script-for-dual-multi-wan-adsl-cable-connections-on-linux-with-mail-on-failure/</link>
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		<title>How To Change Username in Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Use the command below as root after replacing new-login-name and old-login-name appropriately:
usermod -l new-login-name old-login-name

For NIS accounts don't forget to run:
cd /var/yp
make
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		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-change-username-in-linux/</link>
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		<title>AirTel Broadband Brings Broadband @ 8 Mbps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That's about the best you can say about the 8 Mbps plans from Airtel. The starter Combo 1299 plan provides 8 mbps @ only Rs. 1299 per month. If you think that is good, think again. There is a big catch.

Combo 1299 plan comes with a ridiculously low free usage of only 4GB. Additional downloads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/airtel-broadband-brings-broadband-8-mbps/</link>
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		<title>Solution: ntpdate[4933]: no server suitable for synchronization found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our local setup consists of a single ntp server which synchronizes time from asia pool of ntp.org ([0-2].asia.pool.ntp.org) and several ntp servers in the intranet which synchronizes from the above server. This setup ensures identical clock on all the machines on the intranet as well as reduces load on ntp.org servers. However we faced with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/solution-ntpdate4933-no-server-suitable-for-synchronization-found/</link>
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		<title>How To Test Web Application on Internet Explorer 5.5, 6, 7 on Windows &amp; Mac Safari, Firefox , Linux&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-browser and cross-platform testing is a bane as well as a requirement for web applications. Consider Internet Explorer on Windows. There are two major version 6 &#038; 7, not to mention still used 5.5. You need to either use different machines or multi-boot machines or use hacks to run them simultaneously or virtualization software like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-test-web-application-on-internet-explorer-55-6-7-on-windows-mac-safari-firefox-linux/</link>
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		<title>How To Protect Linux Server From Stolen Zombie Netblocks &amp; 100% Professional Spammer Controlled Netblocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DROP (Don't Route Or Peer) is an advisory "drop all traffic" list from Spamhaus, consisting of stolen 'zombie' netblocks and netblocks controlled entirely by professional spammers. DROP is a tiny sub-set of the SBL advisory designed for use by firewalls and routing equipment. It can also be implemented in iptable rules as explained below.

DROP is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-protect-linux-server-from-stolen-zombie-netblocks-100-pro-spammer-controlled-netblocks/</link>
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		<title>Never Restart Network on Multi-ADSL Connection Machine&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I learned it the hard way. Our gateway machine with firewall (shorewall) has multiple ADSL connections configured with load balancing for more bandwidth and transparent fail-over. Today I faced an unenviable problem where one or other of the ADSL connections were going down sometime after a network restart. It was unique because the ADSL modems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/never-restart-network-on-multi-adsl-connection-machine/</link>
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		<title>Game Review &amp; Tips: Alien Blaster for Windows, Linux, Mac&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AlienBlaster is a refreshing open source shoot-the-aliens game with various levels and an arcade mode. It is available on Windows, Linux, OS/2 &#038; eComStation, Mac OSX (DarwinPorts), MorphOS and AmigaOS4. 

It isn't seriously addictive like Battle for Wesnoth, but AlienBlaster is pretty relaxing in its own way. Personally I use it as a stress buster [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/game-review-tips-alien-blaster-for-windows-linux-mac/</link>
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		<title>Dovecot: How To Enable Secure (SSL) IMAP &amp; POP3 With (Free) Self-Signed Certificate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First you should learn how to create a self-signed certificate using OpenSSL (free). After that it is a simple matter of copying the files to appropriate location and enabling dovecot to use SSL authentication. Let's look at the details.

First you need to find the location to place the certificate and key file. Open dovecot.conf file [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dovecot-how-to-enable-secure-ssl-imap-pop3-with-free-self-signed-certificate/</link>
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		<title>How To Use Yahoo Messenger on Linux (MSN, ICQ, IRC, Google Talk&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo Instant Messenger isn't directly available on Linux. However there are several alternatives.

You can use free Pidgin software on Linux. In addition to supporting Yahoo Messenger, it supports AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, MSN IM, Bonjour, Gadu Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, Zephyr and all XMPP protocol compliant instant messengers. It was previously known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-use-yahoo-messenger-on-linux-msn-icq-irc-google-talk/</link>
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		<title>Simple Hack To Protect SSH Against Brute-Force Hacking Attempts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All SSH servers on the internet are heavily targeted for brute-force cracking of passwords. Easy passwords can and are often cracked to gain full control over the machine. Here is a simple hack to thwart most of such hacking attempts.

Change the default port of ssh to a non-standard port greater than 1024. Most hacking scripts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-hack-to-protect-ssh-against-brute-force-hacking-attempts/</link>
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		<title>How To Setup Postfix To Relay Outbound Mail Using SASL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Postfix is an excellent and powerful mail transfer agent (MTA) like sendmail. You can configure postfix to send outbound mails directly (default) or relay it to another MTA, which could be postfix or sendmail. However you don't want anyone to be able to relay mails through the server. So normally MTA's are configured to relay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-setup-postfix-to-relay-outbound-mail-using-sasl/</link>
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		<title>How To Configure Dual ADSL / Cable Connections, Firewall, Gateway / NAT With Shorewall Firewall on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shorewall is an excellent free linux firewall which provides unparalleled level of fine grained control. It not only acts as a firewall and Gateway, it also supports DMZ, IP Masquerading (NAT &#038; SNAT), Proxy ARP and more. In short Shorewall is your one stop solution for complex networking routing needs, flexible &#038; controllable internet connectivity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-configure-dual-adsl-cable-connections-firewall-gateway-nat-with-shorewall-firewall/</link>
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		<title>How To Install Windows msi Installers With Wine on Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes windows installers come with msi extension instead of regular exe extension. Such software can be installed with the msiexec command which comes with wine. For example to install a file setup.msi you will run:
msiexec setup.msi

Did you know that even Adobe Photoshop runs in Linux using wine?
Wine can eliminate your migration pain from Windows (to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-windows-msi-installers-with-wine-on-linux/</link>
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