Jun 192011
 

crontab-visual-editor-guiThese are some sites i use to do specific jobs, i hope they can serve you well too.

Corntab
Corntab is a simple crontab web GUI

With Corntab you can ensure that you always have the correct crontab syntax.

Don’t worry about forgetting the proper crontab format because Corntab let’s you click on all of the crontab options and outputs your crontab entry in real-time.
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Jun 182011
 

ssh Today I present another excellent article by Domenico Raffaele originally presented in his blog (in Italian) where you can find many other interesting articles about hacks and VoIP. This is his second article about ssh.

Here you’ll see some example of SSH Port Forwarding, sometimes called SSH Tunneling, which allows you to establish a secure SSH session and then tunnel arbitrary TCP connections through it. Tunnels can be created at any time, with almost no effort and no programming, which makes them very appealing.

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Jun 182011
 

languagesI’ve found this funny article by Mike Vanier.

This is an update to an old series of jokes about computer languages being like cars. I’ve added some more modern languages to the list. Any suggestions are welcome!

  • Ada is a tank. A butt-ugly tank that never breaks down. People laugh uncontrollably if you tell them you drive Ada, but really, do you want to be driving a sports car in a war zone? [from Amit Dubey]
  • Assembly Language is a bare engine; you have to build the car yourself and manually supply it with gas while it’s running, but if you’re careful it can go like a bat out of hell.[From “Subterfug” off digg.com:]Assembly Language: you are the car.

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Jun 182011
 

firewallI use iptables by many years and used it also for complex solutions and only recently i’ve discovered ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall), the ubuntu version, or better developed to ease iptables firewall configuration, ufw provides a user friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall. By default UFW is disabled.
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Jun 162011
 

nginxOn my site I had a small problems with feeds, i’ve them managed with feedburner and I’ve 1 feed for every language, so you can choose to have the feeds in English or in Italian. The problem is that I’d like that when a user write http://linuxaria.com/feed it land on my feedburner page for English while writing http://linuxaria.com/feed?lang=it he should lands on the Italian feed page.

I’ve tried with the wordpress plugin for feedburner, but that it’s good only if you have 1 feed, because it blindly redirect everything to 1 feedburner address, so it’s not a good solution for my 2 bilingual feeds.

And so I’ve done it with a rewrite in Nginx.
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