Anonymous web-surfing with Tor
I wrote about Tor in the past but I never tried using it. I installed it on my Ubuntu laptop and tested using it via Firefox and [Torbutton]. Now that it’s set up, when I want to surf the web...
View ArticleSSL for Pan News Reader via Stunnel
It appears Pan is the only decent GUI usenet news reader on Linux. It doesn’t support SSL by default. To get SSL to work, one must rely on Stunnel according to this post.
View ArticleSome modifications for WordPress
I recently changed my WordPress theme to Reflex+, a theme that resembles the current look of Google+ and other Google related services. I had to make some manual modifications. Excerpt vs. full...
View ArticleCreate a website instead of a blog from WordPress using the right theme
WordPress is no doubt a great blogging platform. However, it is also a user-friendly Content Manangement System (CMS) that can be used to run a website. However, you have to tweak it to not look like...
View ArticleAutomatic email notifications for Google Docs Forms
I use Google Docs to collect data using the Forms feature. People can just fill out the form and data will be automatically entered into a spreadsheet for me. It really makes data collection easy in...
View ArticleEmail boot log at startup in Ubuntu with bootmail
I’ve been searching for a way to save the output of the console when my Linux system boots up because I can’t spot errors fast enough at startup and I don’t notice errors on headless (no monitor)...
View ArticleSkip disk mount errors in Linux
I automatically mount disk drives using /etc/fstab. However, when I boot a system with a disk removed, the system will give a mount error, giving me the option to skip (S) or manually (M) mount the...
View ArticleShutdown in CentOS requires halt argument
To shutdown in Ubuntu, I issue as root shutdown -P now. However, in CentOS, the computer does not shutdown and I get the message <pre class="src src-sh">Telling INIT to go to single user mode....
View ArticlePBX in a Flash + Incredible PBX makes setting up FreePBX + Asterisk easy
Asterisk is a very powerful open source telephony platform. I’ve described how to install it and configure Google Voice with it in the past. Setup is quite complicated for a newbie to get started. I...
View ArticleLog output for screen
The one thing that annoys me when I use screen is that I can’t scroll up after a long output has printed. To log outputs, add the following near the top (required!) of your screenrc file...
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