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Online Budget with Gnucash + MySQL + SSH

Nov 022011

Article by Jimmy, first published on his Blog and the BGLUG in Italian

Gnucash is a great tool to keep the budget of the family, and from the version 2.4.0 supports connection to a database, SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage. Using a local database, however, tie to a specific computer for its use. Instead I want to be able to open a GnuCash session from any computer and connect to a single, remote, database.

Enable remote connections to the database from the whole net is very unsafe, but a SSH tunnel gives me a lightweight and reliable alternative . Continue reading »

7 Uncommon uses of Iptables

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Nov 032010

On the web there are plenty of guides related to iptables, the firewall included in all the latest Linux distributions.

iptables is a user space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains and rules it stores. Different kernel modules and programs are currently used for different protocols; iptables applies to IPv4, ip6tables to IPv6, arptables to ARP, and ebtables as a special for Ethernet frames.