Software: aide

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Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment scans all your files and creates a database. You can do a rescan every time to see what files has been changed. By default it runs once a day and sends you a mail. Of cause you should copy away the database from your server in case you think you server Read More

Link Linux is not Windows

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Here is a link to a very old page that is still actual web.archive.org -> http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm My favorite part: If you want to use it, you’re expected to invest time in learning how to use it. It was created and given to you, free of charge, by people who invested a lot of their own Read More

Cygwin: save package selection

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Save open a cygwin terminal and ander this command tail -n +2 /etc/setup/installed.db | awk ‘{print $1}’ | sed ‘s/$/,/’ | tr -d ‘\n’ Save the output string or redirect the output to a file Restore start the cygwin setup with the following options setup.exe -q -P bc,nedit,screen,vim,wget,wgf,zsh,…

tempPhoto

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create a photo without any traces in your photo library    This one is perfect to create a picture to look under your couch/bed/other hard to reach places. Features: – simple user interface – camera live view will be displayed on screen – tab on the live view and it will freeze – tab on Read More

Software: Crashplan

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Think about all your important files… Have you a backup? Where is the backup located? If you are not sure you should read on 🙂 Mac OS X has Timemachine. Mountain Lion supports multiple disks. USB or Timecapsule… netatalk is also an option. If you have the possibility to backup at two locations you are maybe good Read More

Terminal: synchronize config with git

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We have access to more than one computer and every bash/zsh/vim/… needs a configuration. I’ve tried several things to keep it in sync (rsync, unison, …), but at the end I used git. create: cd ~ mkdir .config cd .config git init vi ~/.config/1_create_links.sh #!/bin/bash now=`date “+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S”` if [ -e ~/.alias -a ! -L ~/.alias Read More

Apache: SSL settings

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check you SSL settings with this website: ssllabs.com ssl test script I’m using Ubuntu on my server and this helped me to pass the tests (exept my SSL certificate is not trusted, because it is signed from CAcert) open /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf and replace SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!ADH:!MD5 with SSLHonorCipherOrder On SSLCipherSuite RC4-SHA:HIGH:!ADH

OS X: export vcards

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To create a individual vcard file for every contact: Select all the contacts you want to export (command + A) hold down the option key drag the contacts into a Finder window