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The Best Filesystem for an external hard disk of 1TB with cross platform support.

Feb 012012

Disks are becoming cheaper and so it’s becoming common to have on our desk an external (usually USB) hard drive with a size of 1TB or more.
Now, once that we bring at home our new gadget the first question for us is: “which Filesystem should i use with this big disk ?”

There are a lot of options and the main point is once again a simple question: do you want to use this disk with several different operating systems ?
Perhaps you have a computer with a dual-boot with a Windows operating system , or perhaps you plan to use that external hard drive also with your Macbook…or connect it to a TV.

Let’s take a look at some options you have to suit your needs. Continue reading »

Redirect all (TCP) traffic through transparent socks5 proxy in Linux

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Jan 282012

SOCKet Secure (SOCKS) is an Internet protocol that routes network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. SOCKS5 additionally provides authentication so only authorized users may access a server. Practically, a SOCKS server will proxy TCP connections to an arbitrary IP address as well as providing a means for UDP packets to be forwarded.

As SOCKS (as it was already marked above) transfers all data from a client to a server, nothing adding from itself, from the point of view of a web-server, a socks proxy is a client. Therefore anonymity of this type of proxy servers is really always absolute.

In this article we’ll see how to use redsocks to achieve a SOCKS proxy.
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Explore large files with Rowscope

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Jan 232012

Sometimes it happen that: for mistakes, because you don’t rotate your logs or perhaps they growth up really quickly, that you need to analyse a large file (> 1GB) for searching a specific pattern of text. Probably you’ll go nowhere if you try to open them with vi or worst with a graphical editor like Gedit or libreoffice, and if your resource are low you risk to use all the memory and put your linux box in hang.

But don’t worry, like many things in Unix/Linux, there is a specific tool that can help you in this operation: Rowscope
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XBMC!How to turn your Ubuntu into the Media Center of your dreams.

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Jan 232012

Do you have a nice TV or projector? You are in the right place. Today we will see how to make an incredible and surprising combination of a low-performance PCs and a nice TV or projector. Our goal is to turn that old PC into a fantastic Media Center, which will give you many possibilities. From the view of Film and/or video, to listen to music (excellent if you have connected a good sound system), an excellent way to show photographs and browse the web with a simple click .

All of this will be possible with XBMC

Introduction to AppArmor

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Jan 212012

If you use Ubuntu or Suse you probably already have Apparmor installed on your system, so take a moment and see how this software can help you.
And also if you don’t use these distributions, this article can be interesting if you are interested at the security of your Linux Box.

AppArmor (“Application Armor”) is a security module for the Linux kernel, released under the GNU General Public License. AppArmor allows the system administrator to associate with each program a security profile that restricts the capabilities of that program. It supplements the traditional Unix discretionary access control (DAC) model by providing mandatory access control (MAC).

It was included as of the 2.6.36 version of the mainline Linux kernel. Since 2009, Canonical contributes to the ongoing AppArmor development.
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