https://wiki.alienbase.nl/ 2026-04-15T22:30:41+00:00 https://wiki.alienbase.nl/ https://wiki.alienbase.nl/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2006-03-28T20:04:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:admin&rev=1143576244&do=diff Administering your Linux system Security issues Linux is secure, or so they say. Take a Windows box, it will get hacked and compromised in no time. Linux, that is a different league. Of course, you have to watch out with dogmatic ideas like that. Linux is inherently more secure because of the way it is built, while Windows carries with it the legacy of the DOS age. The fact that Windows platforms must maintain compatibility with their older cousins to a large degree does no good to their leve… text/html 2006-11-06T20:21:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:cryptoloop&rev=1162844472&do=diff On the fly encryption in Linux using CryptoLoop On the fly encryption, or OTFE, is a method to have your data safely tucked away in a filesystem hidden inside an encrypted container (either file, or disk partition, or another block device) and be able to mount this encrypted filesystem in such a way that access to the data is transparent - the computer user does not even have to know the data in the container is de/encrypted on the fly when it is accessed. You will need a kernel device driver f… text/html 2006-03-18T22:17:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:firefox&rev=1142720279&do=diff The Firefox browser [Firefox logo] Much of what I explain adheres to Firefox' bigger brother Mozilla of course. Tabbed browsing Ever wondered why Firefox in Windows does things differently than Firefox in Linux? Well I don't :-) But it is a fact that some of the Firefox default preferences in Linux are different from what you are used to in Windows. One such difference is the middle-mouse click on a tabbed window. In Windows, this closes the tabbed window; in Linux, this will paste the curren… text/html 2012-08-20T00:23:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:kernelbuilding&rev=1345422188&do=diff Building a Linux Kernel from source This is how I build my 2.6 kernels. X and su I run the commands from an X terminal, and at some point start the X based kernel configurator. I run my desktop as “myself” but I build my kernels as root. In order to let root use my X display, I do the following in my X terminal: get root rights; merge my own (alien's) Xauthority file with the one from the root user, and set the DISPLAY variable. After doing that, I can run X applications from the text/html 2009-01-06T19:11:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:linux&rev=1231269115&do=diff Linux in General There is much to tell about using Slackware, but even more to tell about using Linux. This page serves as the starting point for writing down my experiences with Linux in general. For example, from time to time I bump into the peculiarities of certain applications, read interesting stuff on the internet or in magazines, that I feel the need to comment on. Let’s see what this will bring text/html 2007-01-15T09:49:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:pine_gpg&rev=1168854551&do=diff Email encryption with Pine and GPG Pine is a nice but powerful console mail client, and just like GPG, it is available on many Linux and Unix based computers. It is not hard to make Pine read and send GPG-encrypted or -signed messages. Several tools are available that glue gpg and pine together, and I use text/html 2010-04-24T19:25:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:rsnapshot&rev=1272137111&do=diff The rsnapshot backup solution ---------- Rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals. See the text/html 2006-03-30T22:37:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:sitebar&rev=1143758259&do=diff Centralized Bookmarks As you might already have noticed, the Wiki's toolbox portlet on the left has a link called “ Alien's bookmarks”. This links actually transfers you to my private installation of a SiteBar bookmark server. Now you ask, “what is a bookmark server, and why would I use it? text/html 2010-04-24T19:20:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:slug&rev=1272136836&do=diff A backup server using NSLU2, unslung and rsnapshot [LinkSys NSLU2] In a previous article I explained how you can use rsnapshot to build a backup server that stores daily/weekly/monthly data snapshots in a disk-efficient way. The assumption there was, that you would use a Slackware Linux machine as the backup server. text/html 2009-01-12T20:53:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:thunderbird&rev=1231793631&do=diff Mozilla Thunderbird [ Thunderbird logo] The Thunderbird mail client inherits a lot of it's bigger relative Mozilla Mail, but the small and fast bird has a feature set that makes it a worthy alternative. Showing new mail in IMAP subfolders The folders in your IMAP account will by default not be shown with the number of unread emails. You can change this through the user interface, but then these folders are not automatically monitored for the arrival of new mail. There is a user preference lin… text/html 2006-10-03T21:26:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.alienbase.nl/doku.php?id=linux:truecrypt&rev=1159910803&do=diff TrueCrypt, cross-platform OTFE On the fly encryption, or OTFE, is a method to have your data safely tucked away in a filesystem hidden inside an encrypted container (either file, or disk partition, or another block device) and be able to mount this encrypted filesystem in such a way that access to the data is transparent - the computer user does not even have to know the data in the container is de/encrypted on the fly when it is accessed.