Update from CentOS 5.5 to 5.6

Posted on Wed 20 April 2011 in Linux • Tagged with CentOS

CentOS 5.6 was released and I updated nearly all of my CentOS machines to the new version. Up to now only one machine made some smaller problems and needs some love to work like it did before the update.

The procedure is quite simple if your are on CentOS …


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Use SSH for more secure browsing in public networks

Posted on Wed 20 April 2011 in Security • Tagged with Firefox, privacy, security, SSH

In the time of free wifi and free internet connections in every hotel, bar or cafe you should be sure your connections are secure. In some cases you can't trust the connection but you need to go online and read some mails or share some documents. In this case some …


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SubEthaEdit

Posted on Wed 20 April 2011 in Mac • Tagged with SubEthaEdit, Texteditor

With SubEthaEdit for Mac I found a nearly perfect text editor for my needs. It has nice features like syntax highlighting for the most important languages, collaborating features over Bonjour and works stable and fast for me.

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GPGMail for Mac

Posted on Wed 20 April 2011 in Mac • Tagged with GPG, GPGMail, Mail

In some cases I like to add a signature to an email or encrypt it to be sure the information is only useful for the person I am sending the email to.

On my Mac I'm using Mail with GPGMail to handle all my encryption stuff with email. The index …


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Install KVM on CentOS

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS, KVM

How to install KVM virtualization technologie on CentOS 5.4. This Howto explains step by step how to install KVM and how to create a VirtualMachine using Virtual Manager GUI.

Before you install KVM you need to verify that your CPU is compatible.

One of the following keywords needs to …


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Huawei UMTS USB stick with Snow Leopard and Lion

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Huawei, Mac, Mac OS X 10.7, Mac OS X Lion, UMTS

Howto make the Huawei E176 USB UMTS Stick running with Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6. Update: I am actually running Mac OS X 10.7 alias Lion on my Macbook Pro and it still works with the new driver for Snow Leopard on the Huawei website.

I bought …


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Problem with Mac Client and NFS Server

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Firewall, Mac, NFS

I ran into a problem using my Mac with my CentOS NFS Share.
I was able to connect but everytime I tried to upload the connection was lost and the device was unmounted. After some research I found that you must have firewall turned off on your mac to have …

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Install Tomcat with Eclipse

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development • Tagged with Eclipse, Tomcat

Howto install Tomcat with Eclipse IDE on MacOS X.

What we need:

Tomcat

Eclipse JEE

1. Extract Eclipse into your Applicationfolder and Tomcat to your prefered location for example into your home directory.

2. change into the apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin directory and make all .sh files executeable

cd <pathtoyourtomcat …

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Install ADempiere on Mac OS X 10.6

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in ADempiere • Tagged with ADempiere, Mac

This Howto more or less just lists the points you need to do. ADempiere is installed the same way on several different unix systems so on MAC OS X. For more information please use the search functionality on wikipage.

ADempiere needs to be setup with correct DNS services be sure …


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Install Nagios on CentOS

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS, Nagios

Install CentOS 5.3 using the Server template.

After you installed the system log in as root and run update the system:

yum update

If the kernel was updated reboot the system.

reboot
Now we have to include the rpmforge repository to install Nagios 3.0.x.
If you are …

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