Surfraw stands for 'Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW'. It's a command-line shell program for interfacing with a big number of web-based search engines. With Surfraw you can search google and wikipedia a.o. from the command line. The results will be displayed with a browser of your choice. I suggest a text browser like links2, to keep it text based. Read more to find out how to install and use it.

I found an interesting technique for resetting a lost admin password of a dynamic website using a phpmyadmin account with full privileges. This easy technique can save you the time of restoring a backup, and can be used for every CMS that uses MD5 encryption for passwords.

The most used, and easiest CMS for blogging is Wordpress. But, as you can see on this site, Drupal does it as well. Here is a list of modules I tried and I'm using for blogging.

After completing this tutorial you will be able to retrieve and send email from your favorite email client using your gmail, yahoo, and/or hotmail account. Normally this isn't possible with a free account (except for gmail), but with the help of a gateway that simulates a pop server in 1 direction, and connects to the mailserver in the other direction, it is possible. This tutorial is mainly aimed at Evolution and Sylpheed, but should also work for other Linux email clients, although there are other possibilities for Thunderbird.

I just installed icecast2 with ices2 on the same machine, which is now a audio streaming server. Icecast2 is a audio streaming server similar to shoutcast. It listens to ices2 that send the audiofiles to the icecast server. Icecast2 sends the audio to the clients.
After installing and configuring icecast2 and ices2 and putting your music in the right directory, you'll have your own internet radio station!