Posts Tagged ‘Linux’
Your own VPN in the cloud
Last week I saw that major credit card companies are blocking payments to VPN services: This is bad news if you want to protect your stuff online (or pretend that you’re in another country). One way to deal with this is to run your own VPN service in the cloud. This is of course of […]
Filed under: cloud, CohesiveFT, howto | 3 Comments
Tags: Access Server, android, cloud, iOS, iPad, iphone, Linux, MAC, OpenVPN, VNS3, vpn, VPS, Windows
One of the things that attracted me to buying a Chromebook was reports I’d read that it would run Ubuntu (and run it fast). Today my 32GB Transcend Class 10 SDHD card arrived, so I set to work installing ChrUbuntu – Ubuntu 12.04 packaged up for the Chromebook[1]. Like some others I hit an issue […]
Filed under: technology | 4 Comments
Tags: ARM, Chromebook, ChromeOS, Chrubuntu, crosh, dev mode, Linux, parted, SD card, SSH, Ubuntu
OpenVPN
For some time I’ve used SSH tunnels as a means to pretend that I’m somewhere else to avoid geography filters, or to otherwise sneak past content filters. This is fine for regular HTTP(S) traffic from a browser, where it is easy to define a proxy server, but doesn’t work so well for other applications – […]
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Tags: cloud, filter, iOS, iSSH, Linux, OpenVPN, PrivateTunnel, SSH, SSL, tunnel, Ubuntu, vpn, VPS, Windows
One weekend, four upgrades
I found myself upgrading a bunch of stuff over the last weekend, which gave me cause to reflect on what was good, and what was not so good. Android First up was my ZTE Blade, which I’ve had running Cyanogen Mod. I wasn’t super impressed with version 7.0. There were few things that it did […]
Filed under: could_do_better, did_do_better, grumble, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: 11.10, android, cyanogen, Cyanogen Mod, distribution, iOS, iOS5, iPad, iphone, kindle, Linux, upgrade, ZTE Blade
I run a bunch of Linux (mostly Ubuntu) VMs on my main machine at home, which happens to be a laptop. I use VirtualBox, but what I have to say here is probably applicable to most host based virtualisation environments. My requirements are pretty simple: The VMs need to be able to access the Internet […]
Filed under: howto, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: bridged, eth0, eth1, host only, howto, internal, Linux, NAT, network, networking, Putty, SSH, Ubuntu, VirtualBox, virtualisation, virtualization
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