Author: ai7pz

  • How to install peerblock to improve web/p2p privacy in debian?

    Peerblock is a program that prevents some peers to connect to your host when you use some P2P application. On Debian I wanted to install something similar, to avoid defining the firewall policies by hand. Moblock is the name of the Debian side solution that corresponds to Peerblock. It’s documented on the source forge page…

  • What to buy to implement a raspberry pi based media center?

    Raspberry Pi (Photo credit: barbourians) If you want to setup a raspberry-pi based media center, you will need to buy the following elements: A raspberry pi computer An SD card to host the OS of your raspberry pi. 8 Go are sufficient for this. Of course, you will need a way to configure the raspberry pi.…

  • How to check if you respect web design standards and best practices?

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    webmaster desktop (Photo credit: FSA 2006-07) Do you know how to check if your web page respect web design standards and best practices? If no, the following web page provides a great checklist, which permits you to verify (or discover) if you have designed your website correctly:  http://webdevchecklist.com/ It may be a good idea too…

  • Debian clock problems: solution to permanent time shifts problems in the clock

    For french people: ce post dรฉcrit une solution au problรจme d’horloge sous debian (squeeze) quand l’horloge de gnome est dรฉcalรฉe en permanence d’une ou deux heures. Solution: sudo vim /etc/default/rcS In this file, change the UTC line as follows: UTC=no#UTC=yes Reboot, and the clock should display your local time.

  • Mounting shares permanently in debian

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    Have you ever wondered how to mount shares permanently in Debian? That’s a question I see often on forums. In fact it’s simple once you have understood the role and syntax of the famous “/etc/fstab” file. First, get an idea of your disks and partitions:   root@myDebian:/home/toto# df -h -T This command provides the list…

  • Debian, what to do if the numerical keypad does not work?

    In Debian, what do you do if the numerical keypad does not work? In fact it’s a very common problem! To solve it, you just need to know this killer tip: try pressing shift + numlock instead of just numlock. It works in most cases. Otherwise, your keyboard might be miss-configured and you should have a look…

  • Privacy: how to delete all old e-mails from gmail

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    The amount of personal and sensitive information stored in e-mails is huge, and the risk that someone compromises this information increases with time. So, here is the method to delete old emails from gmail. I also advise you to use a strong password on your emails to prevent identity theft and spying for instance. First…

  • How to use html tidy with python to validate HTML content?

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    Html-source-code (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ttidy is a famous toolset for validating HTML and XML content. It identifies mistakes, and corrects them auto-magically. To use it from python, you can use pytidylib: sudo apt-get install tidypip install pytidylib   Or alternatively easy_install pytidylib   Or if you are behind a proxy: pip install pytidylib –proxy “prxy:port”…