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OpenVPN

A quick HOWTO on setting up OpenVPN on a FreeBSD server and Kubuntu Linux client.

Shrinking ibdata

After doing some high performance MySQL work, i found that my big databases increased the size of ibdata (expected), but dropping the databases did not reduce ibdata again (oh?).

Home Directories over NFS

Something simple that turned out to be PITA at first.

FreeBSD Software RAID Howto

How to setup disk partitions, labels and software raid on FreeBSD systems.

HL-4040-CN on Kubuntu Gutsy

A tale of how i got our new Brother printer to play nice with our Linux boxes.

Remote Crypto FS

How to safely store data on untrusted systems.

wvdialer configs

wvdialer configs for fonic.de and vodafone.de

Turn off the boot splash screen

How to turn off the boot splash screen in Kubuntu, Ubuntu