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Play peg solitaire on the Linux command line
Peg solitaire rules Peg solitaire is a very old game that you can play alone to kill some time. Classic versions are made of a wooden playfield with indentations for either wooden pegs or glass...
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Linux multi-player command line games (daemon-games)
Daemon-games is a set of multi-user console games for Linux. The name is a tribute to the well known Debian “bsdgames” package. A “daemon” is defined in Wikipedia as: In multitasking computer...
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Tutorial: Apache 2.4 as reverse proxy
This post explains how to configure Apache 2.4 (the version that comes with Ubuntu 14.04) as a fully transparent reverse proxy. If you have a single website that has multiple paths that are actually...
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Web development in VB.net or C# on Linux with Nancy
I will make my first Linux web application in Microsoft’s “.net” platform. Since I do not run Windows I am going to using Mono (“.net for Linux”) and the MonoDevelop IDE. I am not so much a fan of...
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So I encountered some legacy VB.net code that I wanted to compile into a cool Nancy-based application that runs under Mono on Linux. After trying to compile my code with an outdated (2008?) Mono VB.net...
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Finding bad RAM with memtest86
Lately Firefox started to crash randomly without an apparent reason. Also other software on my computer started acting weird. It took me a while to found the cause of the problems. It turned out one of...
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Detecting torrent traffic on a Linux box
At home I am sharing my Internet connection with several other family members. Sometimes my Internet is very slow with high latencies, causing my interactive SSH connections to stutter. The problem is...
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Windows compatibility broken in Linux kernel (fixed)
I’m running Ubuntu Linux and today I found that Steam did not work anymore (nor did some other Windows applications). Steam could not find my games and the store was not working. I remember installing...
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Docky makes Xubuntu look pretty
Xubuntu is my favorite Linux distribution. It is fast, pretty and minimal. Right now I am running version 15.04 and 14.04 (LTS). Previous versions used to have a sort of a dock on the bottom, but...
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Linux commands “astu” and “astsu” in Mr. Robot
People told me that the hacking in “Mr Robot” was pretty accurate. Mr Robot is a TV series about a hacker named “Elliot”. I had to see it, but until now I was lacking the time. Last Sunday was a...
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