Tag Archives: open source

Presenting NamedManager

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Jethro Carr

A while ago I had a project to build a DNS management application for a client, which has since been refined and improved further, and finally released as “NamedManager” now that I’ve had time to re-do the documentation for a … Continue reading →

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Point & click Procmail with MailGuidance

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Procmail is a rather old, but still very useful Unix/Linux application commonly used for writing mail filter rules on Linux servers. I typically use it for user-level filtering, such as defining mailbox filters for all my emails. It’s also useful … Continue reading →

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Introducing FlatTraffic

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Jethro Carr

FlatTraffic is an AGPL web interface for analyzing NetFlow records and showing statistics designed to make it clear and easy to determine which hosts of the network are consuming data. It’s still in beta stage, the application is functional and … Continue reading →

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virt-viewer remote access tricks

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Sometimes I need to connect directly to the console of my virtual machines, typically this is usually when working with development or experimental VMs where SSH/RDP/VNC isn’t working for whatever reason, or when I’m installing a new OS entirely. To … Continue reading →

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Fixing Blogging

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Jethro Carr

I’m finding an increasing number of friends and people using services like Tumblr or Google Plus as blogging services, or at least as a place to make posts that are more detailed an indepth than typical micro-blogging (aka Twitter/Facebook). The … Continue reading →

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Introducing Smokegios

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Having a reasonably large personal server environment of at least 10 key production VMs along with many other non-critical, but still important machines, a good monitoring system is key. I currently use a trio of popular open source applications: Nagios … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Sync Server RPMs

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Jethro Carr

A few weeks ago I wrote about the awesomeness that is Mozilla’s Firefox Sync, a built-in feature of Firefox versions 4 & later which allows for synchronization of bookmarks, history, tabs and password information between multiple systems. (historically known as … Continue reading →

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Die Flash, Die!

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Jethro Carr

“I hated flash whilst it was still cool!” — Jethro Carr, Internet Hipster Adobe Flash has to be one of the more polarizing internet technologies out there, people either love it or hate it, but either way, it’s difficult to … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Firefox Sync Awesomeness

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Jethro Carr

When I recently rebuilt my laptop, I switched back from Google’s Chromium browser to instead use Mozilla Firefox. Whilst I really liked Chromium, there were a few specific reasons which push me more towards Firefox: I trust the Mozilla Foundation … Continue reading →

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100% pure freedom phone?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Jethro Carr

As per my earlier rant about Android’s openness, I’m not particularly happy with all the binary components on my phone, nor am I particularly happy with the Android Market’s control and lack of clarity around licensing. There’s multiple issues with … Continue reading →

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