All_about_network

Firehol is an nice and easy overlay for IPtables – which means it will allow you to manage IPtables without going really learn their syntax by providing simple config file and few scripts that will do the work for you.

For better description see the FireHOL’s  homepage. As this is not a firewall in the real meaning of the Continue reading

After some serious stuff about networking there is going to be a small article about some useful Linux thingies.

First of all small reminder about programmes and background processes.  If you want to run programme in background there is a very easy way how to do it. Just add & sign after the command. Like in this example with top.
tnk@charon:~$ top &
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As time passed I encountered an very strange behaviour of phomyadmin – all tables were created in Swedish language by default which is not very useful when all your application are written to use utf8. I made some digging around the web and found following information

1. My first thoughts were that the problem with misinterpreted characters in phpmyadmin were only problem

Recently I had faced a  problem of merging two binary files together.For some very strange reason DELL has decided that the iso images of the bootable cd for their servers (4GB) will be split into 400MB files… well if you want to burn this image you have to merge them somehow. Well at firs I was thinking of some program doing the work for me but after Continue reading

Recently i was playing a little around with my debian and found this page nice and extremely useful. It is all about
linux account format, syntax and tools . Of course this is 100% valid for any linux in general. But also specific commands for debian are mentioned.

There is also a lot of very nice tutorials on how to forge Especially tutorial on Continue reading