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Using an iOS (iPad/iPhone) to access the webserver with virtual host on your computer

Oct

22

2014

If you are doing web development and you want to debug your web application on an iPad it usually is not that hard to do. Just connect the iPad to the same WiFi your computer with the web server is running on and go to the LAN IP of that machine. But what if your ...

Troubleshooting Apache on Mac Os X

Jul

17

2013

Recently I switched over to Apache on Mac Os X Mountain Lion. I had some trouble getting it to run correctly, because I was copying a configuration from another old installation of Linux. In this brief article, I will show you how to get it up and running if running it is not going as ...

Install SSH on Ubuntu 12.04

Dec

18

2012

Setting up an SSH Server on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) is very easy. Open a terminal, and type: sudo apt-get install openssh-server After it has installed you can connect to your machine. Configuration of the port If you want to change the configuration, then you have to edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. To open the file ...

How to: connect to SSH on your OpenWrt router over internet

Dec

16

2012

Here is a simple how to on connecting to the SSH server of your OpenWrt router over WAN/internet. OpenWrt has a very good firewall. It has several layers which you can configure. To connect to SSH in your router from the outside world, execute the following steps. 1. Configure your dropbear Dropbear, the SSH server ...

Installing OpenWrt on a Linksys WRT160NL

Dec

16

2012

Earlier I tried using DDWRT, but after a lot of troubles with using packages and having seen the name ‘OpenWrt’ while searching for solutions quite a lot on the net, I thought… lets give it a try! I looked up information between the differences of DDWRT and OpenWrt and found that the packages can be ...

Ubuntu 11.04: Restart the sound system without rebooting

Nov

19

2012

To restart the sound system when it sounds garbled, distorted or when you have no audio at all, use the following command: sudo /sbin/alsa reload

VIM: Search for the word under the cursor

Feb

6

2012

VIM is packed with a lot of handy features to edit textfiles efficiently. Here is another trick which I recently looked up. How to search for the word under cursor? That is actually very easy. When your cursor is on the word, use the following keys to navigate around: # – find previous match of ...

Het treintijdenbord van Utrecht Centraal

Jan

22

2012

Het treintijdenbord van Utrecht Centraal is in oktober 2011 verwijderd om plaats te maken voor een nieuw digitaal bord. Het oude bord met het voortdurende ratelende geluid wat de vertrektijden, richting en perrons aangaf voor de treinen op Utrecht Centraal is verplaatst naar het Spoorwegmuseum Utrecht. Het hangt echter nog niet in het museum, maar ...

Have you met snipt.net?

Dec

29

2011

Update April 30, 2014 Unfortunately snipt.net is no longer offering free accounts. An alternative is GitHub Gist. Original article: Recently I have discovered snipt.net, whose tagline is “the long term memory for coders“. You can add snippets here for/from various programming languages and publish it (or just store it for yourself if you don’t ...

More coming soon.

Dec

27

2011

Welcome to my new blog. I am editing new articles right now to give back to the web.