October 2009
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Drupal Inline Popup Reference Field
It seems that I am spending some time learning Drupal so the content of this post may defer from the editorial line a bit but as usual, I hope it may help someone.
The current drupal installation I am working with has CCK and Popups: Add and Reference (let’s call it PAR for future (shorter) references) modules. Unfortunately, by default the links added by PAR are in a new div tag below...
August 2009
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Drupal Private Download Folder
Still working with Drupal and still learning a lot… The challenge I was facing was to let users upload files to a specific folder but to restrict access to that file so that it cannot be downloaded by anybody simply by giving the file path (private download). Therefore, users are allowed to post content but not access it (otherwise nothing prevent them to access files from other users...
July 2009
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Share Firefox Profile Between Computers
It is no secret, it is easy to share a firefox profile. I am running a dual boot Linux / Windows and was therefore interested to share my Firefox profile between the two. But in the process, I actually became interested to be able to access that profile from my work computer. After all, there are already extensions to store bookmarks remotely so why not do the same with the complete profile.
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Install Linux Mint on Lenovo X200
In my previous post, I detailed how I partitioned the drive of the X200 in order to install Linux. I will now give a few words about the installation process of Linux Mint 7. The focus of this post is set on how to keep your boot loader as it is and allow a dual boot windows/Linux from the Windows boot loader.
There are only a few things that I changed from the default installation. The first...
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Partitioning Lenovo X200 to Install Linux
I wanted to install Linux on my computer (Lenovo X200) but I was a bit afraid to mess with the partition table due to the fact that there is a hidden Restore & Recovery partition available at boot up when one press on the ThinkVantage button.
I did want to keep Windows available as there are a few programs that can come handy and I didn’t want to mess with the default behavior of...
June 2009
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Create SOCKS Proxy to Bypass Censorship
Using the method described in my previous article, you can easily see the benefit to bypass censorship. By using the set up previously described, you can encrypt all your traffic through the proxy and therefore appear as if you are only having one long SSH connection.
But in addition, it can be a good idea to configure firefox to use the proxy to resolve the DNS requests (in case the DNS ...
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Access Pandora Outside the USA
If you enjoy Pandora or any content that is restricted to the USA, it is quite annoying when you cannot access it because you are out of the country (Ha! Good old Europe).
Fortunately, proxies can help you fix the problem quite easily. I used to employ GPass. It is an easy solution to use under Windows but last time I tried to start it, it couldn’t find any tunnel. There is however an...
December 2008
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SSH Console Under Windows
While looking for an easy (and immediate) way to get an SSH console to windows, I found MobaXVT. It is describe as a “Free portable X server with Unix/Cygwin utilities”. As the description suggest, it is actually a Cygwin encapsulation into a nice multi-tab interface that has a built-in (among other things that I didn’t test) SSH client. Anyway, if you are just looking to...
April 2008
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SSH with PAM and private / public key...
Following the article where I explain how to install a SSH server on the Lacie Edmini, I will explain how to allow authentication through the use of private / public key so that you can use the method explain in this article to backup your files on your local server.
During the installation of the SSH server, we didn’t touch anything in the SSH configuration files. The result was that...
March 2008
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Add SSH on a LaCie EdMini v2
In a previous post, I explained how to make automatic backup on a server using SSH. I was suggesting that the server was somewhere on the Internet so we didn’t have to deal with any SSH installation. However, sometimes some data are to sensible to be stocked somewhere on the Internet so a good idea is to have your own little server running SSH. In addition, once data are backuped on...
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SSH restrictions
A few days ago I was explaining how to backup your important files using rsync and ssh. This solution allowed to transfer some content to your server in a secure way. Of course, I was using this solution myself, but I got some problems while using it due to SSH limitations with my webhost (webhostingbuzz). Indeed, after 30 minutes of connection, the SSH session was killed and therefore rsync...
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Find Other Websites Hosted On Your Server
If you are using a shared webhosting like I do, it can be interesting to know which websites are located on the same server. Indeed, if you find your site too slow, it may be because another website is consuming too much resources. There can as well be some problems if you are sharing your IP address with some site that are censored abroad. Indeed, if one of the site of the server is blocked,...
February 2008
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Backup your file with rsync and ssh
If you have many important files on your computer, you probably saved them somewhere, from time to time: usb key, CD, server… the choice is yours. But the problem is to maintain this backup up-to-date. So what about making a backup à la “time-machine” to save your files on a regular basis and be able to access previous versions or the latest one easily. We will realize a...
January 2008
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Restricted Access
I am sure that you have already seen some dialog like that:
This kind of dialog appears when a folder is protected on an Apache server. It allows some files to be accessible to a limited amount of people with special rights. This kind of protection is done by a little file: “.htaccess” put in the directory containing the content to protect.
I will give here a basic example...
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Create a proxy
I guess that you have already been in a situation where you couldn’t access some websites whether you are at school, work, library, or in some country that practices censure.
There are many proxies (thanks Korben for the info) that you can use to bypass these limitations but they can be slow and / or with a lot of ads and pop-up windows. But if you have your own web hosting, there is an...