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If you want things done properly

Posted on zo 12 maart 2006 in services • Tagged with dns

do it yourself apparently.

Two of my domains are down, because the registrars systems seem to think they expired. It's not true, of course. And a quick creditcard payment did not help either. People visiting the affected webpages are presented with a nice default search page. Great :-(


Data synchronisation using Unison

Posted on za 18 februari 2006 in services • Tagged with open source

Some time ago I found a small utility called unison. I used it for some time to sync my homedir on a Linux box to my Windows laptop, but later decided to go with the Winows built-in 'Offline files' thingie (bad idea, don't do it).

What is Unison?

Unison resembles …


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Offshoring to the US

Posted on vr 03 februari 2006 in services • Tagged with open source

While big companies are trying to offshore IT from the US to India, I'm getting ready to offshore some stuff from my home DSL connection to a Linode™ located in sunny California, the US. First thing on my list is to expand my OpenVPN network to the virtual host and …


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Virtual ethernet using OpenVPN and software bridging

Posted on za 14 januari 2006 in services • Tagged with open source

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 backup, rsync

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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