Tag Archives: linux

Spider and parse any big Web site

Posted on Dec 6th, 2011 by Stephan Kristyn

Ok, the title is not for the light-hearted, but neither is this tutorial. First of all you will need a full-fledged gnu/Linux Operating System, or as we Free Software followers say, you’ll need a real operating system.   Now let’s … Continue reading →

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Bitcoin Mining on Fedora Core 15

Posted on Jun 28th, 2011 by Stephan Kristyn

I think BitCoin is a great project by a few University enthusiasts worth of my support. Therefore I will mine a few cryptological sequences on my ATI graphics card to support the project and see where it goes.

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Build Linux drivers for ATI 6450 on FC15

Posted on May 28th, 2011 by Stephan Kristyn

The 6450 is a great card, it’s cheap, cool and needs only 8 Watts. Powered by Renewable Energy I can use this card as yet another point made against energy waste. Let’s get it to running in Linux..

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SFTP with chroot jail on CentOS

Posted on Nov 10th, 2010 by Stephan Kristyn

SFTP which uses openssh was engineered by the IETF 2001-2007. It has the potential to replace the insecure and legacy FTP. Another alternative would be WebDAV. It seems like a great alternative to SFTP since it uses HTTP/TCP pipelining and … Continue reading →

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Setup CentOS and move WordPress

Posted on Nov 7th, 2010 by Stephan Kristyn

I got a vServer by Hetzner and I chose a 64bit CentOS 5.5 install. Now I need to transfer WordPress to it with all my stuff, like database, plugins, themes and special settings like pretty permalinks. I want to achieve … Continue reading →

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Install corkscrew on MacOSX

Posted on Oct 26th, 2010 by Stephan Kristyn

With corkscrew you can tunnel ssh through a proxyserver. You could get it through Darwin Ports but I like compiling from source better. That way you always have the latest versions. First get the sources [here].   Please note that … Continue reading →

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Host Europe vs GoDaddy vs Hetzner vs Rackspace

Posted on Oct 25th, 2010 by Stephan Kristyn

This is a review of web hosting services. I compared prices, customer service, backend, speed and the DNS management of the contenders.   I’m almost sure you were also stabbed in the back, spitted upon, lied into your face and … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate Guide on sharing files on Mac and Windows

Posted on Sep 21st, 2010 by Stephan Kristyn

If you recently switched from Microsoft Windows to one of those new shiny, uber-geek 27″ iMacs like I have and your beloved ones or roomies are still running on Windows boxes but you still want them to access your shares … Continue reading →

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IIS7 Setup and Security

Posted on Mar 30th, 2010 by Stephan Kristyn

If you want to host a website on your intranet and you do not have any Domain Name Service installed you still can use the Microsoft’s webserver IIS by making use of Windows’ Netbios name resolution. After configuring IIS correctly … Continue reading →

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Microsoft does look better in Linux

Posted on Mar 8th, 2010 by Stephan Kristyn

Linux does look good. It even looks so good, that Microsoft’s website seemingly looks better if rendered in Linux.   In my opinion it isn’t that surprising that Jung von Matt, Germany’s Top Tier advertising agency turned down Microsoft as … Continue reading →

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