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Throw a rave when you work too hard

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:36:27 +0000

Workrave is an awesome little utility that I just found out about almost a week ago now. Basically what it does is sits in your tray and bugs you when you should take breaks. Its really simple to use, and is in the Fedora repositories. Since, my Open SUSE laptop is at home and off, [...]

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

TheLinuxBlog.com — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:38:36 +0000

Today the Advanced Bash-Scripting guide has been updated: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Changelog: “Many bugs were fixed. Additionally, there is a great deal of new material. Editing was done for increased consistency. Two new example scripts were added.” This is not a book that everyone will want to read, but for those wanting to know more about scripting or those [...]

Use VNC through SSH

TheLinuxBlog.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:33:36 +0000

Here is another quick tutorial; Some times its nice to tunnel through SSH. Perhaps you have SSH running but the firewall does not allow anything but SSH in. You can tunnel VNC (or any other service) through SSH by doing the following: On the machine local to you establish an SSH connection to the remote machine with [...]

sl the BOFH’s revenge for bad typists

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:57:31 +0000

If you don’t know what BOFH is, then lets try wikipedia. This morning in my feed reader from tips4linux.com was an article that “makes you pay attention.” Basically, the article software package they were recommending today is sl. I couldn’t resist commenting on this. There are many times that I am stuck over a slow SSH [...]

Whats in your Feed Reader?

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:18:19 +0000

Hey, today I’m asking the question as to whats in your feed reader. I mostly ask this question because I’m interested in what other people are reading and writing. Here is a list and commentary of the Linux and tech related feeds that are in my feed reader. I invite you to add your feed [...]

Using a custom Tomcat on Fedora

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:22:15 +0000

So, I hear you need to use Tomcat on Fedora eh? Not happy with the available Tomcat version from the repository? Well my friends you can add a custom Tomcat to Fedora and have it run as a service. This post is somewhat related to: my Adding a service on Fedora post except this one is [...]

Shell Script Flow Control - my most refered to articles

TheLinuxBlog.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:38:07 +0000

This week I do not have time to write a full fledged article on shell scripting, so I am going to some flow control and logic articles that I wrote that I read the most. One script that I continuously refer to is one of the first shell scripting articles I wrote titled “When Photoshop Fails.” [...]

APNIC Box - Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 1 - The Device

davidapnic — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:04:53 +0000

I put this device together for fun sometime around the start of 2007. The ideas that spawned this was using OpenWRT on a Linksys WRT54G access point. A surprisingly powerful and full Linux distro with all kinds of advanced capabilities running on a Linksys wireless router which I’d previously thought to be a reasonably dumb [...]

Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

davidapnic — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:16:41 +0000

Today we have a post from davidapnic, who has kindly written up some information about the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange is a popular mathematical key exchange algorithm. It allows two parties to establish a ‘key’ over an insecure medium such as the internet. As you will see, it doesn’t matter whether the intercepting party [...]

Back Again

TheLinuxBlog.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:30:20 +0000

I had to leave town last Tuesday for a family funeral, and therefore did not make any updates to my blog. While I had a long drive that I could have wrote some posts, its sometimes nice to just take a break. I didn’t even update or check my Twitter account. In the upcoming days I’ll [...]