socks proxy

SSH as SOCKs 5 proxy

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series SSH Best Practices

Let’s say, for example, that “someone” is traffic shaping our peer 2 peer connections or eavesdropping traffic in general, blocking myfavoritesite.net or any other domain/service… Here’s a really cool antidote: SSH proxy. I think it’s a really nice gesture to give someone the access on something that’s been blocked without his permission. To use ssh […]

socks proxy

Linux user account with ssh-only permissions

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series SSH Best Practices

SSH (among other things) is a secure way of proxy-ing your traffic, web browsing or accessing a  service remotely  which is blocked by a firewall. In case we want someone else to have that access or securely proxying his traffic etc etc,  we need to provide a user account with ssh-only access to our ssh […]

VLC media player - vlsub has been updated to 0.9.8! 1

VLC media player – vlsub has been updated to 0.9.8!

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series vlsub plugin for vlc

Vlsub is a well-known vlc extension for downloading subtitles automatically in various languages, based on movie’ s file hash or title. The new features and bug fixes applied from previous and current version are: search subtitles for videos file inside an archive Add language automatic detection from os environment Simplified interface Add a success message […]

exif data

Delete your personal info from your photos with Exif tool

When you create an image, take a screenshot, take a picture with your smartphone or your computer etc, that picture is tagged with some metadata which can be used to track your location or your identity. In which file types are these metadata applied? Image files (scanned documents too), audio files. What info are embeded in photos? […]

Linux home directory encryption 2

Linux home directory encryption

Encrypting the $HOME directory under ubuntu/debian and other dists. In my case my $USER is “ubuntu” so be careful to replace that with your own user. Be sure to have more than the double free space in your $HOME than the size of the files to complete the migration, else copy your files temporarily in […]

How to install mod_security for Apache 3

How to install mod_security for Apache

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Cacti installation for monitoring servers and routers 4

Cacti installation for monitoring servers and routers

This is done with Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, but, it may be done with othe distros too. First install the required packages:

Go to /var/www/ download cacti, unpack it and rename it:

Create a database for cacti, a user for the database and insert the cacti tables in it:

 

Edit […]

Thunderbird backup/transfer mail settings 5

Thunderbird backup/transfer mail settings

If you want to recover just copy the folder into home folder. Mind permissions when you copy this folder.

Move Window Buttons Back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 6

Move Window Buttons Back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10

One of the more controversial changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta is the Mac OS-inspired change to have window buttons on the left side. We’ll show you how to move the buttons back to the right.

The key that we want to edit is in apps/metacity/general. Click on the button next to the […]

Teamspeak client Troubleshooting 12

Teamspeak client Troubleshooting