Here's how to create a site-to-site VPN between StrongSwan and SonicWall. This has been tested with Ubuntu 14.04 and StrongSwan 5.1.2, and SonicWall with SonicOS 5.9 at the other end.
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Here's how to install the OpenStreetMap Nominatim service on your own server. It can be used to geocode and reverse geocode addresses and map coordinates. You will also get a web interface which loads map tiles from openstreetmap.org while doing geocoding requests using your own server.
I was faced …
How to install the latest node.js on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove nodejs nodejs-dev npm sudo apt-get install nodejs
Smbclient which works with BackupPC on Ubuntu 12.04:
Unlike IPv4, which uses DHCP for configuration, IPv6 uses the Neighbor Discovery Protocol to configure addresses and gateways. Unfortunately, originally the protocol had no means of providing addresses of DNS servers to clients, making it necessary to use DHCPv6 for that purpose. Modern Linux and Mac OS X machines are …
Sometimes you have an executable which does not fork to the background, but you need to control it with init scripts, so that it does indeed run in the background. Here's a pretty generic init script for that. It allows you to configure these:
DAEMON_NAME="My Little Daemon" DAEMON_EXECUTABLE="/opt …
HP seems to have set up a package repository for Ubuntu 12.04, which is an improvement since I last checked a few years ago. To use the repo, add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://downloads.linux.hp.com/downloads/ManagementComponentPack/ubuntu precise current/non-free …
