SSH Tunneling

If you are able to connect to a ssh server, you can connect to the whole world. How does that work? ssh -N user@remote.ssh -L 6667/target.host/6667 The command in pieces: -N circumvents that a shell gets spawned. user is the user on our remote ssh server. -L is the command for the tunnel. Its three parameters are Local […]

XMMS I will miss you

I don’t know how many people out there are having two or more soundcards in their systems – but I surely know, I do. As I am using the KDE sound daemon arts, my primary soundcard is occupied. As this card isn’t great I am using it for the usual system sounds. For listening to some music, I […]

OCR for Spamassassin

The fuzzyOCR PlugIn for Spamassassin was a failure. By today I took it out of my system as it gave me bad results. It was masked in the portage tree for a good reason. But loosing OCR doesn’t really hurt me, as the spamfilter does a great job here, using the usual plugins. The only problem I am […]

fuzzyOCR

As there is far too much spam around, especially image spam – I am evaluating a new SpamAssassin PlugIn called fuzzyOCR But what’s that thing all about? Let’s have a look: Optical Character Recognition using different engines and settings Fuzzy word matching algorithm applied to OCR results Image hashing system to learn unique properties of known spam images […]

Walking the line

What kind of internet connection do I need? 2 MBit? 4 MBit? 1 Mbit? Well – I had to face that question the last days. So I started to look at the services hosted on my machines: Webserver Mailserver Fileserver / FTP DNS services I have to admit that a 4 MBit SDSL Line sounds delicious, but is […]

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