As I wrote in an older post there is a simple solution using ssh to tunnel your webbrowser traffic through an ssh connection to a secure and trusted endpoint. This is a very simple solution to secure your access to the web while you are in a public wifi network or old fashioned cable network. [...]
This video explains in a very basic way the bad goal of ACTA. Help to inform more people about ACTA and help to stop it. We want to have our free and open internet as it is and don’t want to introduce this kinds of laws in this undemocratic way. Recommend on Facebook Buzz it [...]
If you want to have the latest version of nginx on your CentOS system the easiest way is to use the official yum repository from the nginx program. The version contained in the EPEL repository is quite old. Create a new repository file: vi /etc/yum.repos/nginx.repo copy the yum repository information into it and save it: [...]
The NX protocol is a remote X protocol and software quite similar to VNC but over ssh. While using it for a machine there was this strange behavior that the session was not working anymore and can’t be reestablished. Reinstalling and configuring the nx server software didn’t fix the problem. In the end I fixed [...]
Here again I found a wonderful video explanation about Flattr: Would be nice if you join this nice idea and leave some bugs on each thing you enjoy on the internet. This micropayment system is a good thing to give something back to the people who helped you out with a problem or created some [...]
VMware offers a free tool to convert virtual machine files in different formats for example from .vmx to .ovf. This tool can be used to convert: VMX -> OVF VMX -> OVA OVF -> VMX VMX -> vSphere Or you can deploy a OVF directly to a ESX host. It’s more powerful than it looks [...]
Searched for an alternative for Microsoft RDP client for Mac and found CoRD. It’s a nice free and open source tool for Mac and works fine unitl now. Nice features are: Bookmarks All sessions in one window Quick connection Share folders I will include a more detailed review of this nice tool when I have [...]
If you are running a webserver with https you maybe get a certificate for your site some times in a different format as you expect it. The easiest way of converting the certificates is using the openssl tool. For example if you get a certificate in .pfx format you can convert it easy to a [...]
If your iTerm or Terminal needs some time to start and the bash needs some time to appear if you create a new window. Short solution is to delete the logs if they are to big: sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl Here the source from os x daily: http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/06/speed-up-a-slow-terminal-by-clearing-log-files/ Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share [...]
In every software development project there is the need for quality assurance and quality management for the code. To make this work more efficient there exist a big number of tools to do this task. For the ADempiere and iDempiere project I was working together with Redhuan (red1.org) on some Fitnesse test integration to run [...]
