http://www.improvedsource.com/ Your source for technical news! http://www.improvedsource.com/ http://www.improvedsource.com/images/logo.gif http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Detaching_a_background_process_from_a_screen_session/40/ Did you ever wonder why a background process terminates when you quit a terminal session? This is because the process is attached to the terminal session. 2007-11-22 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Updating_Your_Ubuntu_Server_From_The_Command_Line/37/ Ubuntu Desktop is popular with linux desktop crowd, but how do you apply updates from the command line in Ubuntu server (No Gui)? 2007-06-03 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Ubuntu_Apache_Performance_Tip/38/ In a previous post I discussed using Cache-Control to tune web server performance. In this post I will include how to do this specifically on Ubuntu Server. 2007-06-03 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Speeding_up_your_web_server_with_Cache_Control/35/ Using simple cache control directives you can speed up website by enabling better cache coverage when serving up pages. In this small tutorial I will go over one way of controlling caching using the cache-control directive. 2007-05-15 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Cool_Example_of_Java_and_Javascript_working_together/34/ This is a cool example of when you combine Javascript and Java in a web application. Its a photo editor that can do some pretty amazing things like 3-D slideshow (HW accelerated too) especially considering its a web app. 2007-05-09 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Password_Protecting_Web_Pages_with_Apache/32/ When you want to limit access to web pages, Apache offers password protection. In this article we are going to describe how to use this feature. The system we are going to describe uses a text file similar to the passwd file located in the etc directory to store usernames and encrypted passwords. When a user accesses a password protected page, they will be prompted for username / password. When Apache receives this info, it compares the stored encrypted password with an encrypted version of the password supplied by the user. If all compares, the user is allowed access. 2007-05-07 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Monitoring_your_Network/30/ If you have a bunch of Linux boxes or remotely manage Linux boxes you may want to consider a monitoring solution. Monitoring software can be a lifesaver, especially when you're not physically near the computers in questions. It also provides for smoother service operation by automatically restarting dead daemons even before you may know of a problem. But at the same time some of these software solutions have become quite complicated and expensive to set up. Well in this article we are going to cover a simple to set-up, cheap (free), and flexible monitoring package called 'monit'. 2007-05-06 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Apple_Has_Me_Trapped_On_Windows/31/ I am sure you are scratching your head wondering how Apple could possibly be trapping any body on Windows, but they have me trapped. How? 2007-05-06 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Systems_Panel_-_Open_Source_AJAX_IT_software/29/ We are open sourcing Systems Panel. An AJAX based IT software package. It has been released under the GPL license. 2007-04-27 http://www.improvedsource.com/view.php/Ubuntu_7_04_Review/28/ In this article I will review the latest release of Ubuntu, version 7.04. I have been using Ubuntu for a few years now and have come to love the ease of use that Ubuntu is known for. But does the latest release live up to its predecessors? 2007-04-24 Search ImprovedSource articles search http://www.improvedsource.com/search/search.php?query=