Category Archives: General

Installing Citrix on Fedora 14

Some of you my be familiar with my adventures with installing Citrix on Debian based systems, well I’ve been trying out Fedora 14 and came across a few issues as well. You can make life a lot easier for yourself … Continue reading

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Rebooting on the command line

I was prompted to write this post after listening to Jonathan Nadeau talk about accessibility in Ubuntu. He mentioned not knowing how to shutdown a GNU/Linux system from the command line yet. As it happens the command to use is … Continue reading

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XP guest in a virtual box losing network mappings

I had a strange situation where my XP guest would login fine to a domain and everything would work for a period of time. Suddenly the CheckPoint client would pop up even though I did not request anything in the … Continue reading

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The JakAttack is back (Again)

It was an ordinary day. A day like any other when suddenly… As I was transferring my ogg casts to my ogg player I realised that there was a new JakAttack episode. The show is by Jon Watson and his … Continue reading

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WordPress Plugin – Are you sure ?

This is the second time that I have pressed publish when I meant to press preview. The solution – I hope – is the “Are you sure ?” plugin. All it does is ask you are you sure when you … Continue reading

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Secure browsing on a open wifi network

Most of the traffic on the Internet is sent in the clear – fact. Back in the day the Internet was a trusting place. You’d think that given it was developed as a Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) project … Continue reading

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HPR: Shot of hack:BSOD on Kubuntu

Some of the guys complained that my 22″ analogue clock screen-saver was a bit boring. So I thought that I would pull the fake blue screen of death screen-saver one on them. The screen saver … … BSOD – shows … Continue reading

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HPR: A private data cloud

In this months Hacker Public Radio show I talk about setting up a secure ‘private data cloud’ solution where I use rsync over ssh to backup my data to a remote location. Continue reading

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How to install Checkpoint ssl extender vpn (snx) under Debian/Kubuntu

Another in my series of 6 months from now posts. There is a Linux client for Checkpoint’s ssl extender vpn. The binary is called snx and it works quite reliably after you get over the problems of getting it installed. … Continue reading

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Say Thanks.

I was preparing to write up the scrip/show notes for my next HPR on the way home from work tonight. Rather than listen to a technical podcast I decided to put on some background music. As luck would have it … Continue reading

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