Jitsi is a video conferencing system that you can install on a private host. Traffic is encrypted from client to server, but is decrypted at the server in order to relay the audio/video to conference participants. I chose to run my own server so that decrypted communication is kept on… Continue reading
This is another article in my continuing adventure in running Linux on my new Sager Laptop. To recap, I bought a Sager brand laptop because it had the same specs as a System76 Unit but at about 60% the cost. I figured if System76 can get a working desktop then… Continue reading
This is how I setup a port forward on a Ubuntu host. Let us say there is an application with a web interface that runs HTTP but on an odd port, like 8080. We want to accept HTTP traffic for that application on the normal port 80 instead of 8080… Continue reading
Do you like having clear and easily manipulated controls on your desktop? I sure do. There seems to be a rush to get to a pure minimalist desktop UI. Where there are limited controls and everything is flat grey on a white background. I, for one, don’t consider my desktop… Continue reading
The South Florida Amateur Astronomers Association is currently working on a project to coordinate multiple Radio Telescope collection points. This would require very precise time stamps on recorded data, much more accurate than what public NTP server pools could deliver. So we successfully built as close to… Continue reading
This is my list of my most used chaining operators in Ubuntu. 1 . Semi-colon operator ; The semi-colon allows you to chain multiple commands so that they run in-order. # apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; echo ‘upgrades are done’ 2 . Single Ampersand & The single ampersand… Continue reading
This quick how-to steps you through a simple installation of OwnCloud to a Ubuntu 14.04 server. First, you need some prereqs: sudo apt-get install php5-gd mysql-server To begin, you need to add the repository for ownCloud for ubuntu 14.04. wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/xUbuntu_14.04/Release.key -O Release.key apt-key add – < Release.key Next,… Continue reading
This is a working strongswan ipsec config that can be used for a roadwarrior setup for remote users utilizing certificate based authentication instead of id/pw. This is a pure IPSEC with ESP setup, not L2tp. This is not 2 factor, it is cert only. To get started: sudo apt-get install… Continue reading
Since my ISP blocks port 25, preventing me from running my own in-house email, I relay all my in-house emails and notifications generated from various components though the ISP email servers. This allows me to have internal components send messages to my in house server on 25 and those messages… Continue reading
Openswan 2.6.37 Symptom: OpenSwan to Cisco ASA Site to Site Tunnel has one way traffic. Description: The Ipsec Tunnel builds, both the openswan host and the ASA show the tunnel up but traffic only flows from the ASA into Openswan, traffic does not flow back from openswan. No errors were… Continue reading
Mike's Guides to Learning Boto3 Volume 1: Amazon AWS Connectivity and Basic VPC Networking
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