This is one of the very few posts that go "off topic", not much though, as this is about WordPress, an excellent open source and widely used blogging platform. I have finally completed the move from a pure HTML web site to a wordpress weblog. The old links to my articles’ HTML pages still work…
This article will guide you through the process of using your CUPS printer by issuing commands in the terminal and also outlines the available print job options you can set in order to fine tune the final prints.
Secure your data in encrypted partitions and removable volumes, or even volumes within a file, using dm-crypt and the flexibility of LUKS. In this article I describe how I encrypted a ZIP diskette and a partition contained in a file.
How to prepare CD-RW and DVD±RW media (formatting, creation of UDF structure) and mount them for use as large floppy diskettes.
This article describes how to become your own Certificate Authority (CA) and issue your own server certificates. Be advised that noone else, apart from you, your internal network’s people or your friends, will or should trust this kind of certificates (self-signed). These are intended only for providing secure communication with your own services or for testing purposes.
This article describes in brief how to configure VNC server instances for one or multiple users on a remote machine, how to use VNC to start graphical applications on boot and finally how to enhance security by connecting to the server through encrypted SSH tunnels.
In this article I describe how to configure the SSH server, so that users authenticate using keys, how to generate DSA keys using ssh-keygen, how to configure ssh-agent and finally how to use ssh-add to manage cached passphrases.
The original Red Hat RPM Guide, which had been released under the Open Publication Licence is no longer available under fedora.redhat.com. However, a more recent revision of this document, named the RPM Guide, is available as part of the Fedora Project Documentation and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-BY-SA).…
This Nautilus script was written because gnome-print does not list the user-defined or system-wide CUPS printer instances in the printers list. "Printer instances" are just sets of settings, so that a user does not have to type them for every print. Check the CUPS documentation for more info. So, in order to use your defined…
I’ve written this script so that I can download multiple files of the same type from a web page. The file extension can be defined in a dialog box that appears as soon as the script is run. It uses Lynx to parse the web page for links and Zenity for the dialogs. The desired…