Making purchases online is very convenient, but it also exposes us to the risk of a lot of hassle. One above all is the possibility of getting screwed. It matters little whether the seller is a private individual or a large chain: on technological products (unless the brand is explicitly stated) needs to be checked Read more…
I wasn't at home yesterday… and I remembered that I have an important file in my NAS, at home. I can access my NAS via the VPN I have activated, but the document is found in a path that I didn't remember at the time, instead among the few things that Read more…
The SSH protocol (Secure SHell) is an encrypted protocol used to establish secure connections between two machines: customer e server. By itself it's already a pretty secure protocol, but with SSH keys you can close SSH access to only specific machines. Here's how. In this mini-guide we will see how Read more…
Today we see how to control a remote machine via gui with VNC through a secure SSH tunnel. For the uninitiated, in a nutshell, VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a remote display system that allows you to see an environment “desktop” (GUI) running not only on the machine on which Read more…
From time to time I happened to draw up illustrative documents to be delivered in PDF. It goes without saying that by containing every type of image and illustration, the PDF ended up weighing several MB. One of the solutions I initially adopted was to use a compression service Read more…
How many times have we happened to install a Linux distribution (or start it in mode “live”) from a USB memory? How many times have we found ourselves uncomfortable compared to what we were used to and had to change distribution (reinstalling it on the same USB stick)? How many times have we wondered if it would ever come Read more…
Webmin is a web-based user interface for GNU / Linux system administrators. Through a simple browser, the administrator can manage the server / servers with ease. Administer users, the quote, permissions, the groups, Apache, enable DNS, configuring file sharing are just some of the possibilities offered Read more…
Even today we talk about security on Linux systems. Some time ago I wrote an article on the best NAS according to Amazon, and an article on how to assemble a NAS “do it yourself”. Assembling a firewall is not the same thing, but it's not that different either. A firewall can be at all Read more…
WebDAV (acronimo di Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is an HTTP protocol extension that enables clients to perform operations on the remote server. WebDAV is nothing new, it was first introduced in 1996 and has been the de facto standard for many web applications ever since. Read more…
Today I will tell you about Tasksel: a pretty cool command line software that has simplified my life several times by letting me install bundles of packages, can also be installed individually, but which collectively perform a function “concerted”. The installation of any software present in the repositories on Ubuntu is done through apt. Read more…