Published by manu on 09 January 2010 at 7:37 PM
Modified on 16 February 2010

There are many tutorials about OpenVPN, the most I've found where either too detailed to get something running real quick or way to short to actually understand what's going on. I like finding docs that get the crap running real quick and then goi... .. .

Published by manu on 08 July 2009 at 8:19 PM

Using SSHFS to mount distant filesystems

Sometimes you want ("need") to mount a distant filesystem but you don't want ("have the time") to install NFS or something like that just for this particular need. .. and then you also r... .. .

Published by manu on 01 June 2009 at 3:52 PM

Trickle is a program that can shape bandwidth of TCP traffic. I find it quite useful when I want to upload large files without eating up all the bandwidth, at least that is the most useful usage for me.

I have tried using trickled with t... .. .

Published by manu on 18 April 2009 at 12:38 AM

Modifying Workaround.org ISP Style Email to have Amavis per user settings

This article is intended for those who have already installed Workaround ISP-style Email Server, how... .. .

Published by manu on 23 December 2008 at 7:10 PM
Modified on 27 December 2009

This page is complementary to the Debian Wiki page dedicated to this machine.. so here are some things that are not (yet) on that page and are maybe a tiny bit off topic (kde related) etc.. I mig... .. .

Published by manu on 30 November 2008 at 9:20 PM

The idea is to totally replace a hard drive with a new one, this means copying all the data from each partition of the old hard drive to a new one. why? :

• Your hard drive is old and/or "almost" broken (see

Published by manu on 29 November 2008 at 4:36 PM

Smart is a system for surveilling the health state of hard drives, for more info please visit wikipedia. In short it's a great tool that one should use.

What you need

Published by manu on 04 September 2008 at 11:49 AM

so you have a bluetooth GPS reciever and you have a computer running linux with bluetooth capabilities, maybe you have not yet used them together. .. well here are a few things that may help. this tutorial has been written using Ubuntu, actually ... .. .

Published by manu on 20 August 2008 at 1:10 PM

i originally wrote this tutorial when i first started using linux, at the my debuts i suffered and so i decided to help myself and others by writing a little howto for the first (or almost first) steps with linux. . i started by writing some note... .. .

Published by manu on 11 August 2008 at 2:52 AM

NFS stands for Network File System, and yes this does mean that you can share files over the network.. . basically what you do with this is mount folders from a server onto a client. NFS uses IP addresses for "authentication", also it uses the... .. .

Published by manu on 07 August 2008 at 1:54 PM

this little howto shows how to get a usb stick to act like an install cd for debian.. .

need:

• the image file: boot.img.gz (hd-media)
• the iso image: iso debian-xxx-netinst.iso

Published by manu on 06 August 2008 at 12:28 PM

the acer aspire one is one of those new tiny laptops with an SSD disk drive, i got the one with linpus linux which of course is useless for someone who does "things" with his/her computer.. . so i decided to install linux.. :] instead of putt... .. .

Published by manu on 17 May 2008 at 11:52 AM

here are some notes about how to get some sieve filtering action while using the Workaround ISP style email system. basically i use the workaround tutorial (with one slight modification... .. .

Published by manu on 18 March 2008 at 12:21 PM

tis a small tutorial on Awstats, we suppose that you already have Apache installed and working on your serrver.

get and uncompress the program

you will need to get Awstats from

Published by manu on 30 September 2007 at 3:54 PM

Munin is a program that gives you some graphs about your system that you can visualize from a web page.

there are two parts to this, the server and the client, you can have one server and as many clients (nodes) as you may need, and so fro... .. .

Published by manu on 25 September 2007 at 11:11 AM

This program allows one to automate mounting and unmounting of different types of filesystems, be it a usb drive, samba share or nfs, and for sure others. It is like fstab but on demand.

What you will need

• A kernel w... .. .