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Virtual ethernet using OpenVPN and software bridging

Posted on za 14 januari 2006 in services • Tagged with security

Recently I converted my routing based OpenVPN setup to a ethernet bridging setup. You can read about it on my OpenVPN virtual ethernet page.


Offsite backups using rsync

Posted on ma 02 januari 2006 in services • Tagged with backups

Linux/Unix has a lot of good software. Some of the tools really stand out for being so very useful. rsync is one of them IMHO.

rsync lets you synchronise two directories by only exchanging the differences between files/directories. local from disk to disk or remote using a special …


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Hello world (again)

Posted on zo 01 januari 2006 in website • Tagged with plan

The last couple of weeks there seemed to be nothing going on around here, other than the occasional outage of bits and pieces. I've actually been quite busy doing backend stuff.

Webcams

Of you are a regular on my cam page, you propably noticed that the cams were all relocated …


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My return to Applezealots Anonymous

Posted on zo 01 januari 2006 in desktop • Tagged with apple

Ever since Apple announced Mac OS X I felt I really needed to try this Operating System. Mac OS X is basicly a unix kernel / OS with Apple eyecandy running on top.

When I decided I would switch from my Apple LC475 to a Pentium 200MMX way back in the …


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Offsite backups using rsync - intro

Posted on zo 01 januari 2006 in backup • Tagged with blog

Just finished a small page on my offsite backups using rsync.

Other things worth mentioning: This will not have autogenerated graphical headers, spiffy themeswitchers or a RSS feed. I will try to keep things simple. Because activity will occur on a irregular basis, you can subscribe to the newsletter, which …


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