Use LDAP for authentication with OpenERP

Posted on Fri 22 June 2012 in OpenERP • Tagged with ldap, openerp

Install LDAP authentication module:

You need to install the module for authentication. It's quite as easy as every installation in OpenERP. I am using OpenERP 6 an the module was available.

Navigate to: Settings-> Modules -> Enable all the Buttons to search for extra packages, too like shown in the screenshot …


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GNUbLIN another ARM Board

Posted on Wed 30 May 2012 in Embedded Devices • Tagged with arm, embedded, gnublin

I am quite interested in all the ARM stuff. It's everywhere around us in all this nice and powerful smartphones, cameras, routers and other devices. When I saw an advertisement in the German Linux Magazine I ordered one of this small boards called GNUbLIN. It's a project created by the …


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Very nice blog

Posted on Wed 30 May 2012 in Security • Tagged with Apache, http, SSH

Some time ago I wrote two articles about tunneling HTTP traffic through a SSH session or OpenVPN. This is useful if you need to secure your webtraffic in an untrusted network.

Today I found this blog: http://mark.koli.ch

You should review it, there are some nice articles. I …


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Gimp 2.8 for Mac

Posted on Mon 28 May 2012 in Mac • Tagged with foss, free software, gimp, graffic, Mac, photo

Gimp 2.8.0 is available for Mac OS X now.

You need to have XQuartz installed on your Mac for the new Gimp version.

Why should you upgrade to Gimp 2.8 ? For me there is one major change I am waiting for years now. The one window mode …


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How to publish an open source software?

Posted on Fri 25 May 2012 in Blogging • Tagged with foss, free software, opensource

There are millions of free and open source software available at the internet. Most are done by private persons in their spare time. Some bigger are supported by companies or organizations like the Apache foundation.

This blog post is about how and where you can publish your software source code …


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Torproject needs your help

Posted on Fri 18 May 2012 in Security • Tagged with Tor, torproject, torservers

In this email to the public world the tor projects is asking for help in testing and improving the QA process of the Tor-Bundle.

As you maybe know I am a supporter of the tor project and spend some time in the past of writing some howtos to help improving …


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Sigint12

Posted on Fri 18 May 2012 in Blogging • Tagged with singint

This year I made it to the Sigint in Cologne/Germany. It is the third Sigint organized by the well known CCC (Chaos Computer Club). Since the congress at the end of the year in Berlin (28C3) became really big I am not so interested in it anymore. But Sigint …


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FreeNAS usb stick ROOT MOUNT ERROR

Posted on Sat 10 March 2012 in FreeBSD • Tagged with FreeNAS

Had some trouble booting a usb stick with FreeNAS 8.0.4.

The error message said: ROOT MOUNT ERROR

The problem was that the usb stick was to small. You should use a stick > 2GB. Some of the 2GB sticks are working some not. If you have this problem your …


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Secure your browsing in a non trusted (wifi) network

Posted on Fri 03 February 2012 in Linux • Tagged with CentOS, OpenVPN, Linux

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 …


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Why the free and open internet needs to be protected.

Posted on Fri 27 January 2012 in Blogging • Tagged with ACTA

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 …

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