Author: halfgaar

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Halfgaar is Wiebe. Wiebe is a contributing author on this weblog. He also has a lot of stuff (such as long, in-depth articles) on his personal website.

Making a port forwarded machine available from within the LAN

When you forward a port to an internal machine on the network, you still can't access that host using your WAN-IP from within the LAN. This article explains it well. In short, it's because the reply the machine your connecting to makes, goes to the LAN IP directly, and not back through the router. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on July 23, 2010, at 13:07 | No comments

Disabling related after current tab open

I don't like that firefox nowadays opens new tabs after the current tab. When I open stuff, I remember in which order I opened it and I don't want that order changed by having tabs inserted. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on July 22, 2010, at 12:07 | No comments

Burning media with wodim

Every time I want to burn media, I have to look up again what the syntax is. So, for future reference, this post. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on July 22, 2010, at 09:07 | No comments

Configuring a Debian exim server for internet delivery

I wanted an Exim server which could send mail on its own without the use of another SMTP server. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on July 20, 2010, at 11:07 | No comments

Customizing displayed headers in Mozilla Thunderbird

For some reason, the new Thunderbird 3 thought it was useful to show me the content_encoding header per default, below the addressee and stuff. This header had such a long name that it disrupted the layout. Luckily, you can change what headers it displays by editing "mailnews.headers.extraExpandedHeaders" in the configuration editor. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on May 26, 2010, at 08:05 | No comments

Scroll in windows under mouse pointer in Windows

In Windows, you have to click on windows, and even window-panes, before the scrollwheel works there. With mousewiz, you can alter that behaviour, and make it like most Linux Desktops, where you scroll in the window/pane that is under the cursor.

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By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on May 20, 2010, at 12:05 | No comments

Generating a self-signed SSL certificate

This article explains nicely how to make a self-signed SSL certificate, for Apache for instance: Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on May 16, 2010, at 23:05 | No comments

Aligning partitions with RAID and LVM on drives with 4 kB sectors

Hard disks are being released that abandon the long-established standard of 512 byte sectors. I just got two Western Digital WD15EARS ones, which uses 4 kB sectors. Western Digital Refers to this as "Advanced Format". This poses some serious problems. I will describe those, and what I did to 'solve' it. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on May 13, 2010, at 19:05 | No comments

Installing Arch Linux on RAID+LVM

I just installed Arch Linux on a RAID1+LVM, which involved some work. There already is a nice article about it, but I wanted to summarize for myself. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on May 13, 2010, at 18:05 | No comments

Disabling Intellipark on the WD15EARS

I just got two Western Digital 1.5TB WD15EARS disks. This drive has a feature called intellipark, which parks the head after the disk is not used for a while. This is supposedly a power saving feature. But, as someone explains, it can also severely decrease the lifetime of your drive. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on May 13, 2010, at 14:05 | 1 comment