Category: Debian GNU/Linux
Creating a wireless access point in a few minutes
July 27th, 2010For some any reasons, you need to get a wireless access point running (let say you router or ISP box has just failed:()If you have a spare laptop and an Atheros based wireless card (a Cisco AIR-CB21AG-E PCMCIA is that great!), then you're in luck.1… more »
Debian unstable, CUPS 1.4.1: Sharing printers
October 30th, 2009Configuring a shared printer with CUPS is something quite easy. Nevertheless, it appears that I haven't been able to print from a Mac OS X client (I haven't tried from any other client OS).
Trying to print a document from the client has lead to the foll… more »
Networker 7.5.1 client on Debian GNU Linux 5.0 / Ubuntu 9.04
September 28th, 2009Networker client for Linux only comes "rpm packaged".
Here are a few stepsIn order to install Networker Client on Debian or Ubuntu linux servers:
Install alien package converter
root@deb:~# apt-get install alien
Convert the networker client p… more »
Encrypt a kinda confidential file...
September 23rd, 2009and protect it with a password...
I won't deal here with hard drive or file system encryption, and you can do a little googling to know more about this ;)
So let's secure a single file using OpenSSL and the AES-256. Because the script is explicit… more »
Syncing Google contacts with Mutt aliases
August 9th, 2009As I, most of the time, access my emails by ssh-ing my server, and use Mutt (www.mutt.org), I was wondering how to get the same let say contact list when using Mutt than the one I have in my gmail account.Hopefully Google as released APIs for tons of t… more »