The goal was to setup a server that allowed authenticated users access to a VPN. Here are the important bits from server configuration:
port 1194proto udpdev tundh dh1024.pem server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 ifconfig-pool-persist...
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November 12, 2007
Most of the hardware on the Lenovo Thinkpad X61s works with the Debian standard kernel. The few things that require a bit of tweaking are described here.
Supported Hardware Components
CPU: Intel LV7500 Core2 Duo, 1.6 Ghz....
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August 03, 2007
Eclipse allows custom formatters for variables displayed in the Debug view. This great feature can be used to print stack traces from exception objects:
java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream out = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();...
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July 03, 2007
Unfortunately Eclipse 3.3M3 broke the key-binding for 'Quick Switch Editor'. I stumbled across 'Quick Access' (Window -> Navigation) the other day by pressing Ctrl-E in a Mylar editor. It seems a bit slower but it offers a little...
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January 17, 2007
After failing to get Ekiga or Kphone working with sipgate.de I have finally found a VOIP application for Linux that works with sipgate.de. Twinkle can be installed with apt-get in Debian/unstable and is straight forward to setup....
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January 16, 2007
I recently got an AVM Fritz!Box and I was curious how much effort it would take to extend the Linux system running on the box. I had no incentive to replace the original firmware by a completely different image since it does...
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August 28, 2006
After evaluating quite a few of the image gallery plug-ins for Wordpress I ended up using Photoshow. It has good documentation and a great user interface which makes it really easy to use. It even displays a progress bar when...
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July 30, 2006
Today I uploaded an updated version of the Time Tracking patch. The patch has been improved significantly due to contributions by Magnus Sandberg. The following changes have been made:
The milestone page now show time tracking...
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July 29, 2006
Konqueror would not play wmv videos with the mime type application/x-mplayer2 on my Debian system so I manually added the mime type to konqueror’s file associations which fixed the problem.
Here is a screenshot of the...
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July 18, 2006
A preview release of the Mylar Trac Connector has been uploaded to the Mylar dev update site (Eclipse 3.2 only): download.eclipse.org/technology/mylar/update-site/dev. Please uninstall any releases installed from the update site...
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July 18, 2006
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