An SSH tunnel is used to route unencrypted traffic through an encrypted SSH channel. Its comes in handy for routing traffic over untrusted or hostile networks as the data is encrypted to maintain privacy and prevent eavesdropping. It is also very handy in for bypassing firewall restrictions where the usage…
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eCryptfs is an encrypted file system that works at the file system level. In this post I am going to cover the basic usage of eCryptfs and some of the situations you may want to think about using a encrypted file system. What is an encrypted file system? File system…
Read MoreInstalling SVN support in Aptana Studio 3
Its been a few years since I have worked anywhere that still uses Subversion as their day to day version control system. But the other day at work I needed to check out some old legacy code which was stored in a svn repository on an old development server. Then…
Read MoreDebugging Web Applications With Fiddler On Linux
Fiddler is by far one of the most popular web debugging proxies available. It allows you to capture, examine, save, edit and replay all HTTP / HTTPS requests made by a web based application. For many years it was available only on Windows systems. But recently the creator of Fiddler,…
Read MoreAdding MP3 Support To K3b
Being sick of the music selection in my car the other day I decided I needed for fresh blood. But not being motivated enough to replace the car stereo with one that has an auxiliary input. I tried to simply burn a few mp3 files onto a blank CD. Dragging…
Read MoreInstalling Safari on Linux Mint 15
Cross browser testing your sites is unfortunately a necessary evil. Installing virtual machines with the required browsers installed is one way to test your code. But a lot of the time I don’t want to wait for a VM to boot just to quickly test something. In this article I…
Read MoreTracing Email Sending PHP Scripts On Servers
It happens sometimes, a server you are responsible for seems to be sending out spammy emails, and its normally caused by legacy or insecure code. The mail log indicates there are plenty of potential spam messages going out that are originating locally but most Linux servers host a lot of…
Read MoreA Quick Look At Animate.css
I was browsing github today when I came across the very interesting Animate.css repository. Animate.css provides a bunch of cool cross browser CSS3 based animations under an MIT licence that you can use in your own projects with minimal effort. First things first you need to get a copy and…
Read MoreCommand Line Tips: Program Execution
Executing commands is an integral part of using any Linux system. To follow up on my post about navigating file systems from the command line ( Linux Tips: File & Directory Handling ) more effectively, I am I have picked up over the years. Discovering What Shell You Are In…
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My desktop and all of the servers I own are Linux or Unix based. So as a result I tend to find myself in a terminal navigating file systems and working with files more often than not. Command line file management allows you to wield crazy amounts of power but…
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