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19 Aug
2010

PCL to PDF conversion on CentOS 5.5

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It's all pretty much the default stuff, except for the required libs and the fonts
19 Jul
2010

Useful VPN Services

Say you're living in China, and you have no web freedom whatsoever. Or in the Netherlands, and your favorite linux distro download site… Read more has been blocked by the corrupt "elite". Then having a tunnel to outside the country could be very useful. I found two VPN services that seem very
28 Jun
2010

MS Core fonts on Fedora 13

Due to copyright issues, Fedora cannot include the "core" fonts Arial, Times, Verdana etc. Instead, Fedora offers an alternative under the name "Liberation fonts… Read more". Well, great. Except that 99,9% of all documents received use these core fonts, and I'm not planning to do a find and replace with
21 Jun
2010

Speed up your website: Preloading and caching images

For a customer, I'm building a website that has a pretty large header jpeg that is different for every single page. To speed up loading several pages, I've taken several steps:

1. Force browser caching… Read more

You can tell a browser to keep certain files in cache longer than normal. In
23 Feb
2010

Share one VPN connection

My personal Linux laptop is a real spider in the web. It's got OpenVPN connections to the office, to the datacenter, to serveral family members, etcetera. I love it. But sometimes, there are some tasks that Linux simply can't do, like running a vSphere client. For those situations, I use… Read more
3 Feb
2010

PXE Boot with old-style dhcp and tftp

In this article I'm covering the use of old-style dhcp and tftp, which is useful for company networks that have/need a complete dhcp server running. Personally, for smaller setups, I now prefer dnsmasq to do the job.

Booting from PXE… Read more

With most modern onboard and PCI network interface cards (NICs),
1 Feb
2010

Running VMWare Remote Console outside the browser

Firefox 3.6 update broke my VMWare WebAccess.

Since I updated to Firefox 3.6, I have not been able to run the vmware remote console plugin anymore. Running Linux, this is a pretty important program, as there is no vSphere client for Linux.

How to run VMWare Console from the bash … Read more

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