I wanted to passthrough a dual tuner TV card (Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T-500) to an openVz container in order to use tvHeadEnd. The procedure should be th[……]
Category: How To
Tutorials and guides on how to install software, tweak and personalize your system…
Use Remmina to satisfy all your remote connection needs
Remmina is a remote desktop client that supports multiple network protocols — RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH — in a nice and very user-friendly GUI.
In i[……]
Test email from command line
When you set up email forwarding or configure a new MTA, you will want to confirm it is working before relying on it for alerts. A quick test is all y[……]
PHP: remove duplicate elements from a multi-dimensional array
This post is over 3 years old, so please keep in mind that some of its content might not be relevant anymore.
PHP’s array_unique() is great for[……]
Ban offending IP addresses – fail2ban
If you run a public SSH server, you will see failed login attempts in your logs constantly. Fail2ban monitors those logs and adds firewall rules to bl[……]
Send system emails using gmail as smtp server
I wrote before about sending system emails using sendmail as a smarthost. Here is an alternative approach using Gmail SMTP servers — often simpler to[……]
How to shred/wipe disks/partitions
When you delete a file normally, the data stays on the disk — the filesystem just marks the space as available. The data can be recovered with the rig[……]
Root HTC Wildfire (Android 2.2.1), install Cyanogenmod 7 and fix GPS
I have been using my HTC Wildfire for quite some time now. It is not a bad phone but it is somewhat limited, mainly in memory and speed. Plus, I reall[……]
Formatting a partition from command line
When you need to format a partition from the command line, a few commands are all you need. Here’s the typical workflow.
First, create the files[……]
Logical Volume Management basics
I have explained how to activate an LVM logical volume before, but never talked much about LVM itself. Here is a brief introduction.
I have been playi[……]