Category Archives: Debian

OpenVPN on Tomato with Android and Linux Clients

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Don

I’ve been wanting to do this for a very long time. When away from home I sometimes need access to the systems (or data residing on those systems) back at home. I wanted to set up a secure means to … Continue reading →

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gLabels Avery 5167 Template Problem

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Don

Was having trouble printing some 5167 Return Address labels using gLabels. The alignment was significantly off in my set-up using the default predefined template installed with gLabels on my Linux Mint LMDE netbook. In comparing the template definition file with … Continue reading →

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Recovery of Files from a Unbootable VirtualBox VDI

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Don

I do most everything computer-wise with open source software, but the one hold out remaining that requires the use of a proprietary OS is TurboTax. As a result, TT ran in a Windows XP virtual machine under VirtualBox on my … Continue reading →

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Train Firefox mailto: to use Google Apps – Take 2

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Don

In a prior post I’d detailed the method of using a javascript entry to add an external mail resource to allow clicking on mailto: links to use the Google Apps version of gmail. Unfortunately, when I tried to repeat that … Continue reading →

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Password and Files Encryption/Sync/Backup: Gettin ‘er Done!

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Don

One of my to-do list items for quite some time now has been to get my computer files organized and to set up automated backup and synchronization across my computing devices. I’d kept putting this one off because I wanted … Continue reading →

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Palm GnuKeyring Conversion to KeepassX

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Don

I was a very early user of the original PalmPilot device. Way back when I actually had the PalmPersonal syncing with my ’90s era Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 4 work calendar and email, etc. I eventually moved on to a Treo90 … Continue reading →

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Linphone: a VOIP Softphone for Linux (and others)

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Don

In an earlier blog post I mentioned I was using Twinkle as a softphone client for my VOIP service from Galaxyvoice (GV). As I also mentioned in this entry I’ve now switched my netbook over to a Debian Linux. I’d … Continue reading →

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Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) on an Asus EeePC 1000HA

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Don

I’m a long time user of UNIX-based computers and have been using Linux exclusively for my primary computing for close to 10 years now. For the past couple of years Linux Mint has become my favorite distribution for desktop and … Continue reading →

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