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Time Machine for Linux – Bash and Rsync
Recently i made “the switch”! Not in the way you might imagine though. Ever since 2003 i have been a passionate mac user. I still use macs at home and work and am still passionate about them. Before 2003 i was playing a lot of games. Linux was and is something that i have been [...]
Aug 29th, 2009 | Filed under Computers -
Shell Script Examples: case, count, for, if, while and User input
If you, like so many other people these days, switch to Linux you will come in contact with something called unux scripts, shell scripts or bash scripts. These scripts are text-files that execute commands just like bat-files in Windows. I prefer shell-scripts because i think they are more powerful then bat-files but that is just [...]
Apr 17th, 2009 | Filed under Computers -
Updated: Ubuntu 9.04 on the Asus Eee Pc 1000H with ACPI and WiFi/Wlan working
This article should also apply on the newly released 1000HE and maybe the 900 series of EEE Computers. If you can verify that this is the case please let me know. A few days ago I got myself the Eee Pc 1000H from Asus. My first impression about the hardware is that the build quality [...]
Mar 27th, 2009 | Filed under Computers -
Simple iptables firewall script with NAT and SFQ sceduling
I have been working with firewalls and security for quite many years at this point. Therefore friends and people I know ask me every now and then to write a firewall script for them. So instead of basically writing the same script over and over again I decided to write this article that explains how [...]
Feb 10th, 2009 | Filed under Computers -
A solution to Potential DNS DDoS: named query (cache) ‘./NS/IN’ denied
During the last couple of weeks i have been seeing a lot of messages about denied cache queries on my DNS servers. month day time server name named[6518]: client ip number#port number: query (cache) ‘./NS/IN’ denied At first they looked quite innocent and I thought nothing much of them. But after a while the number [...]
Jan 29th, 2009 | Filed under Computers -
A simple Mac OS X maintenance shell script
I, like so many of my fellow Macintosh users want to keep my OS X installation well maintained. So i sat down and read a few man pages describing those nifty cli utilities that are included in OS X. Since OS X is a UNIX style operating system I decided to create a small shell [...]
Jan 26th, 2009 | Filed under Computers
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