Category Archives: Computing Tips

IT Tips and tricks that I will occasionally use while doing my job. Why?
Because i’m happy to share and it will also help me remembering things.

Making outgoing IRC DCC work with NAT and XChat

Posted on November 9, 2011 by billy

This is basically a reminder to myself in case I need to set this up again, if you want to do this for more than one PC behind a NAT firewall-router, then you will of course have to use a … Continue reading →

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The Register

Posted on October 25, 2011 by billy

It looks like the tech website “The Register” has managed to accidentally send my e-mail address to 3000 other people. Thanks for that! *sarcasm*, I do understand that these things happen, and nothings fool proof, still, if you slag other … Continue reading →

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Secure Shell login attempts

Posted on July 11, 2011 by billy

After getting the following secure shell login attempts, I’ve decided to remove winbind from my home linux boxes. It’s not a big deal as I’ve only got a few workstations and I’m not running Active Directory at home. They are … Continue reading →

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Generating a simple directory listing with apache and autoindex

Posted on March 22, 2011 by billy

Setting up a simple list of files on an apache webserver. The list looks like this: # File /etc/apache2/httpd.conf # http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html # for more options. IndexOptions IgnoreClient IndexOptions FancyIndexing IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting IndexOptions SuppressDescription IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble IndexOptions SuppressIcon IndexIgnore  mystuff #IndexOptions … Continue reading →

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Setting up a IPv6 Gateway on Hurricane Electric using Ubuntu 10.04.2

Posted on March 8, 2011 by billy

First thing you’ll need to do is register at the Hurricane Electric website and create your tunnel. I’m not going to go over that since there’s a lot  of help on the Hurricane Electric Website about it. These instructions only … Continue reading →

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