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Sender Policy Framework

UPDATE Thu Nov 26 11:28:05 EET 2015 Does SPF break forwarding? (like in mailing lists) - Yes, it does break forwarding. So learn from my mistake and think this through. Wednesday, 25 November 2015...

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adaptation IPv6 the wrong way!

There are some companies that have just started to dual stack (IPv4 & IPv6) their infrastructure, like twimg (the twitter hosting images site). Reminder that IPv6 is preferable on the Internet (by...

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Reproducible Builds

I had the opportunity to participate on an Athen’s Hackerspace event with a dozen debian developers about the issue with reproducible distribution’s package builds. I had never thought of this thing...

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RHEL 7/CentOS 7 networking bonding without NetworkManager

First remove NetworkManager: # systemctl stop NetworkManager # systemctl disable NetworkManager rm '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/NetworkManager.service' rm...

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HestiaPi is more than just a thermostat

How about if you could control your entire home temperature and hot water/central heating etc etc, through your smartphone over the internet ? You are going to think that this is a dangerous IoT...

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one step closer to 32c3

As we getting closer to the amazing 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) we must consider some privacy steps to our electronic devices. Perhaps it’s idiotic to take a smartphone to this conference,...

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Build your own Access Point

I have started (for some time now, to be honest) to transfer my router’s function to my ODROID-c1 that runs Archlinux arm so I have my favorite distribution on this beautiful development board. # uname...

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ODROID-C1 specs

CPU # cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l) processor : 0 BogoMIPS : 3.27 processor : 1 BogoMIPS : 3.27 processor : 2 BogoMIPS : 3.27 processor : 3 BogoMIPS : 3.27 Features : swp...

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MySQL UDF

A colleague asked me to install MySQL UDF (MySQL user defined functions) on a server. So here are my notes on the subject, for a CentOS 6.7 linux box: First you need to have mysql-devel on your system...

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sourceforge & subscriptions

I am not trying to resolv this issue, I have lost any faith on sourceforge a long time ago. Although, it is sad. Once, if you wanted to download free software for your linux machine, SF was the place...

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Create an archlinux docker image from archlinux

Some time ago, I wrote this article: How to create an archlinux docker image from the latest bootstrap but I think the below approach is even better. Step 0 This step is optional. If you want to reduce...

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Create a debian docker image with debootstrap

debootstrap is a very powerful tool that most of debian/ubuntu people already know about. It’s really super easy to create your own basic debian docker image, even if you are not running debian. I used...

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audiobooks feb 2016

I spent a lot of time on commute, so the last year I’ve spent a lot of time listening to podcasts and audio books! Here are the latest books (in random order) I’ve heard: Little Brother by Cory...

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bottle.py and static files

I’ve started a new project with bottle.py and had some hiccups with static files and templates. My project layout is (something) like that: / app.wsgi bottle.py static/ static/css...

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Baïkal - CalDAV & CardDAV server

Baïkal is a CalDAV and CardDAV server, based on sabre/dav, To have your own CalDAV & CardDAV server is on of the first step to move out from any “cloud” corporations and keep your data yours....

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Top Ten Linux Distributions and https

Top Ten Linux Distributions and https A/A | Distro | URL | Verified by | Begin | End | Key 01. | ArchLinux | https://www.archlinux.org/ | Let's Encrypt | 02/24/2016 | 05/24/2016 | 2048 02. | Linux Mint...

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Open compressed file with gzip zcat perl php lua python

I have a compressed file of: 250.000.000 lines Compressed the file size is: 671M Uncompressed, it's: 6,5G Need to extract a plethora of things and verify some others. I dont want to use bash but...

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Read It Later or Read It Never ?

  I really like this comic. I try to read/learn something every day.   Sometimes, when I find an interesting article, I like to mark it for reading it later.   I use many forms of marking, like pin...

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JS get HTML code from a DIV element

Most people -reading this blog post- will scream in their chairs … PLZ keep in-mind that I am not a developer and perhaps the below workaround is just that, a workaround. I have this case that I need...

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Find your hard disk model

# /bin/find /sys/devices -type f -name model -exec cat {} \;  KINGSTON SV300S3 WDC WD10EURX-63F WDC WD10EZRX-00A VB0250EAVER      VB0250EAVER      # udisksctl status MODEL                     REVISION...

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