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Spamcup - Spamcup is a tool for automatic Spamcop reporting. It performs the same actions as if you were to report spam to spamcop.net with a Web browser, but from the commandline.

ShopCMS Paypal Shopping Cart is a catalog manager and shopping cart that features two levels of categories, a collapsible navigation menu, full PayPal integration, customizable templates with detailed style sheets, a WYSIWYG HTML editor for product info, compatibility with most Web servers and operating systems, and support for mod_perl. It handles image uploading and cloning of existing Items, includes a browser-based administration control panel, and ranks popular products.

You will first need to register your system with the Redhat Network. If not, STOP, google "rhn_register".

Type the below commands in your shell as root:

#up2date -i -f kernel (for single processor server)

or

#up2date -i -f kernel-smp (for dual processor server)

Check to see all files exits in the "/boot" directory that "/etc/lilo.conf" is pointing to... followed by:

#lilo -v -v

...to install the boot loader, the "-v" option increases verborsity.

Look carefully for any errors before rebooting.

#shutdown -r now

Above is a shortcut of the steps to do the update. If you need a more extensive howto, then visit the Forum.

Linux Useful Commands - Well what can I say, read on... good list of tips for Linux users!!

Linux Cookbook - A hands-on guide to getting things done on a Linux system, designed for the everyday user who is not necessarily a computer programmer.

Conditional Get - Simple guide on how to implement HTTP's Conditional GET mechanism, with regards to producers and consumers of RSS feeds.

Google feed generator - Generate an RSS feed from new Google search results.

Site@School is a Content Management System (CMS) to manage and maintain the website of a primary school.

The main features are:

- Manage a website without technical knowledge of complex websites.
- Following modules are standard available in release 1.2:

1. Search module
2. Guestbook
3. News module
4. Mail module
5. Ads module
6. Forum module with closed & open forums

- Pupils can make their own personal page.
- Teachers can check the pupils personal page.
- A What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor works on Internet Explorer 5.5+ and Mozilla 1.3+ (both windows and linux version)

Water Droplets - First of the Photoshop tutorials creating special effects. This tutorial was done using Photoshop7. Total filesize of the tutorial is about 440 KB, so please be a little patient if you are on a dialup.

Sendmail+Dialup - This mini HOWTO describes some basic configurations that are necessary to make sendmail work comfortably in the typical at-home situation: a single machine with a dialup connection to Internet. The most important features described are:
(1) queuing remote mail while local mail is delivered immediately
(2) preventing sendmail from causing spurious triggering of the dialup connection
(3) providing automatic address translation on all outgoing mail