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Many know that SSH offers the possibility to forward single ports over a secure connection. What many people don’t know is that SSH can work as SOCKSv5 proxy. This way you can securely surf the web from any public WLAN. ssh -D8080 username@my-server.ch This way you have a SOCKSv5 proxy on localhost:8080. You now need to configure Firefox to use this this as you proxy. One way to make your surf adventures even more secure is to tell Firefox to use your proxy for DNS queries to.

Update: The NetSync module seems not to be included in VLC 0.9.x! VLC the VideoLan Media Player has the ability to play sound synchronously on different machines. This module is called NetSync Unfortunately the documentation about this functionality is not very useful. I had to search several sources until I finally managed to get it working. I will provide a short tutorial here: The Server (Streaming Server) OS: Ubuntu IP: 192.

Recently I had to write a tools which acts on data stored in a database managed by Django. As I didn’t want to implement the whole logic around the database I opted to use the Django ORM in my external tool. In an earlier version I used: import os os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'settings' to configure Django with my settings.py. But recently I found a better solution in the excellentDjango Documentation.

The Dialogue Flybook A33i is a nice device but one problem I had until now was the missing WPA support of the internal WM168 network device. But now I finally found a solution, it is based on informations if found here. A quick overview of what I did: You need Windows XP Service Pack 3 Deactivate your WLAN Card via button on the keyboard Download the Modified AVWLPUSB.