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- Configuring Pidgin to connect to a Tor hidden service.
It is, in theory, possible to configure any network service to be reachable over the Tor darknet. This includes instant messaging servers, like the XMPP server EjabberD .
- Getting yourself set up on Terasaur.
Long-time members of the open source community no doubt remember iBiblio.org , which is one of the first and largest online archives of open source software. It doesn't se
- Protip: Finding all of your Git repositories.
How to find all of the Git repositories in the current working directory: find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -name '.git' -print | awk -F/ '{print $2}' How to update all of them i
- Linux on the Dell Inspiron 17R (N7010)
As I mentioned a couple of days ago I had to buy a new laptop because Windbringer's old hardware became unstable due to cumulative heat damage. I drive my machines pretty
- Dealing with the Maryland DMV.
Possibly the second worst thing about pulling up roots and moving someplace new is all the paperwork: You can only accomplish so much until you brave the outermost ring of
- Giving datalove in HTML.
Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed that I've been playing around with the theme for my website in subtle ways (mostly so that, if I do screw something up it won't hose my
- Running a Tor node from Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud.
Updated: 8 March 2011. After a discussion on the torservers mailing list about setting up lots of Tor bridges for people to use to connect with the network in areas where
- Yahoo killing off Delicious.
It was announced by Yahoo a few days ago that, amidst layoffs they will be shutting down a number of popular services, among them the online bookmark repository-cum-social
- Open source desktops and closed source video drivers.
When you have a workstation running some variant of Linux , the Gnome desktop and you have an nVidia graphics card in the box, do yourself a favor and install their driver
- VMware Server, Firefox 3.6, and you.
Something that VMware quietly changed with the release of VMware Server v2.0 was that they deprecated the use of their stand-alone management console application - if you
- Leave nothing to chance.
Something that I keep meaning to write about is the topic of practical data backups – how to back your data up in such a way that you won’t go bonkers trying to manage it,
- Arduino cross-development kit on Gentoo.
While I’m sitting here hacking around, here’s the exact command that I needed to run to get the Arduino development kit to install properly on Windbringer: It should be no
- Practical whole disk encryption, or, how to frustrate data forensics.
When you get right down to it, the best way for an attacker to get hold of your data is to shut the box down, pull the drive, and rip a sector-by-sector image to analyze o
- Network update: Leandra back online.
Maintenance on Leandra is finished. I took her offline around 2100 ESET5EDT on Saturday night to remove a dead DVD-ROM drive, remove a pair of 512GB memory modules that we
- Synching the wild Palm Treo...
I'm a big fan of the open source pilot-link package to back the contents of my smartphone up to offline storage on the off chance that something goes wrong and I need to b
- Linux, UDEV, HAL, and removable drives.
Now that I've metabolized the caffeine from the two-and-an-unknown-fraction pots of coffee I've drunk today (don't ask), I have it together enough to write about an unusua
- The origin of and solution to Google Calendar spam... for now, anyway.
Early last month I wrote a short article about having recieved spam to my Gmail account that automatically added itself to my personal calendar . As I'd expected, I wasn't
- Linux on the Dell Inspiron 1520
Linux distribution successfully used: Gentoo Linux 2007.0 Currently running kernel: sys-kernel/vanilla-sources v2.6.24.1 I'll put everything else behind the cut because it
- Working with software RAID in Linux.
This post assumes that you've worked enough with Linux to know about the existence of software RAID in the Linux v2.6 kernel series, though not necessarily much about it.
- Backing up PalmOS devices using open-source software.
When using the Pilot Link toolset with an open source operating system to back up a PalmOS device such as the Palm Treo 700p , remember two things: One, when you connect t
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