Author Archives: Matti

Compile a (CentOS) Kernel And IPTables With TPROXY Support

Posted on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Matti

A default (CentOS) kernel doesn’t have TPROXY support, which is needed if you want to it to behave as a transparant proxy. This is useful if you have a cluster set-up with one or more loadbalancers, but you still want … Continue reading →

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Increase A VMware Disk Size (VMDK) Formatted As Linux LVM

Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 by Matti

To increase the size of your VMware Virtual Machine, you need to do 2 major steps. First, you need to increase the disk’s size in your vSphere Client or through the CLI. This will increase the “hardware” disk that your … Continue reading →

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Compiling, Running and Cursing on Chromium OS – Getting It To Work

Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 by Matti

Here’s how to get started on compiling Chromium OS from source, and running the operating system inside a virtual machine. The cursing part is mainly to set it all up, as it’s quite cumbersome. In order to inspire you to … Continue reading →

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Exclude Local Networks Via Juniper NetScreen-Remote VPN

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Matti

If you’ve configured your Juniper NetScreen-Remote VPN to route all your traffic through your VPN tunnel, you’ll find you get stuck when accessing local IPs on your (home) network, such as a NAS, printers, computer shares, … This is usually … Continue reading →

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WordPress v3.x: Don’t Replace Double Dash (--) With Single Dash

Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 by Matti

WordPress has a built-in feature that will replace a double dash (noted as “--”) with a single, but slighly longer, dash. This is great if you’re a writer or reporter, but it’s damn annoying if you’re trying to write Linux … Continue reading →

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