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zget

Wednesday, December 09 2015 @ 23:43 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 351

zget is a simple, Zeroconf-based, peer to peer file transfer utility, for situations where you and your peer are sitting next to each other and want to transfer a file quickly (and can shout the filename across the room). Might be useful.

Samba - tuning - handling large directories

Thursday, November 26 2015 @ 19:35 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 346

If you run Samba, tuning is important.

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Fedora 23

Tuesday, November 03 2015 @ 22:29 CET
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 435

Fedora 23 has been released. Release notes, common bugs,

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Linux: System Hardening resources

Wednesday, October 21 2015 @ 11:52 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 378

From The Linux Works blog: List of Linux System Hardening Resources. Good to know about.

OpenBSD 5.8

Wednesday, October 21 2015 @ 11:38 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 409

OpenBSD 5.8 was released on October 18th, 2015.

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Qubes 3.0

Saturday, October 03 2015 @ 11:48 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 538

Qubes 3.0 was released (announcement) on October 1st, 2015. See previous writings about Qubes to find out what it is..

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zfs on Linux

Wednesday, September 30 2015 @ 23:16 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 460

Maybe I should play with ZFS on Linux? First there is ZFS on Linux, with packages for Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and more.

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OnionShare

Monday, September 28 2015 @ 12:40 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 402

OnionShare is an open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size.

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miniLock and MikroLock

Monday, September 28 2015 @ 12:32 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 493

miniLock makes encrypting files and sharing them with friends easy. It's a modern standard for file encryption. It is an addon to the Chrome / chromium web browser.

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quick tip: make ssh retry until the host is up

Thursday, September 24 2015 @ 22:19 CEST
Contributed by: tingo
Views: 362

if you are waiting for a host to boot so you can ssh into it, automate the process: $ until ssh -o ConnectTimeout=2 $host; do sleep 1; done

(found in a message on the freebsd-stable mailing list)