Author Archives: Mel Kham

About Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Howto: Install Lamp and phpmyadmin on Ubuntu

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. In this … Continue reading

How to convert .mp3 files to .wav files in Linux with mpg123

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

mpg123 is a real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player/decoder for layers 1,2 and 3 (MPEG 1.0 layer 3 aka MP3 most commonly tested). Among others working with Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, HPUX 9.x, SGI Irix and Cygwin or … Continue reading

Secure temporary files in Linux

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

On a typical Linux system there will be at least two, if not more, directories or partitions meant to hold temporary files. There is always the /tmp directory, and often a /var/tmp directory as well. With newer Linux kernels, there … Continue reading

Howto use your Linux computer as a media center with Elisa

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 Windows as mac has the ability to turn your computer into a media center, for linux there are a number of open source that can do this , Elisa is one of these open sources than can make you use … Continue reading

Install Amsn on Eee Pc on 6 steps

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To Install Amsn 0.97 on Eee Pc in 6 steps, please follow the steps bellow :

mysqld doesen`t start,what can i do?

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

 Question :  Mysqld  doesen`t start,what can i do? Answer : Here is   the ultime   solultion ( tested in  Centos/RHEL/Fedora)

How to install adobe reader9.0 on linux

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To Install adobe9 on linux, please follow the steps bellow : First go to http://www.adobe.com

Can I save programs downloaded on a Live CD?

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Question : Can I save programs downloaded on a Live CD?

How to install nagios in RHEL|Centos|Fedora

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Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It’s stable, scalable, supported, and extensible.

Firefox: “Could not find compatible GRE”

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Question : Firefox: “Could not find compatible GRE”