I recently switched my hosting provider to 1&1 IONOS Shared Hosting. I couldn’t find anywhere else that came close to the features offered for the price that this hosting company was offering. (I mean, $24 and I was able to …
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Enable Upload Progress and OPcache Modules for PHP 7.3 on 1and1 Shared Hosting
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on January 14, 2019
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Installing a Transparent Squid Proxy Directly onto a DD-WRT Netgear R7000p Router
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on January 5, 2019
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This guide will show you how to setup a transparent Squid proxy with HTTPS support directly on DD-WRT. Let’s dive right in! NOTE: Links will open in a new tab\window. Prerequisites The only requirements are that you have a SSH connection and …
The Kinect as a Skype Webcam on Ubuntu
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on June 17, 2014
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Using the Kinect as a webcam for Skype (or any other application) is fairly straightforward and already built into your kernel if you have a kernel version >= 3.0. The Kinect’s camera, microphone and motor are automatically enumerated and added …
Using SSH, Wireshark and tshark to remotely analyze packets…
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on July 21, 2012
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At home I use ClearOS (free) as my firewall/gateway. The one thing that ClearOS lacks is a graphical packet analyzer. However, the combined use of SSH, Wireshark and tshark solves this problem perfectly. Our first step is to setup a …
ClearOS and Dynamic DNS Client ‘ddclient’
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on June 27, 2012
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If you would like to update your dynamic IP address to a dynamic DNS service using ‘ddclient’ and are using ClearOS, then you’ve come to the right place! Let’s get started: First, log into ClearOS. You can do this physically …
Shared printer offline after reboot fix…
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on March 24, 2012
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When you add a shared printer in Windows 7 that needs to have credentials to be able to connect, it might only work the one time immediately after adding it. After a reboot, it will be offline and you can …
OCR with OneNote…
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on February 25, 2012
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A useful tip I learned not too long ago was that Microsoft OneNote has OCR (Optical Character Recognition) built in. Simply insert whatever image you want and then right click that image to get the option ‘Copy Text from Picture’. …
ClearOS, Web Proxy, Content Filter and XboxLive…
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on January 23, 2012
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When using ClearOS’s transparent proxy and content filtering system, XboxLive will no longer work. Even if you add the Xbox’s IP address to the exempt list on the content filter, it will not work 100%. The content filter seems to …
ClearOS: Automatically focus login input field
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on December 24, 2011
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I find it annoying to have to manually click ‘Login’ on the login page when administering ClearOS. I use Firefox’s password manager and when I type my password for the password manager I am used to hitting enter twice, once …