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My New Book on Squid Proxy Server (A Beginner’s Guide)

April 18, 2011

I have not blogged since a long time mainly because I was a bit busy authoring a book Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner’s Guide for Packt Publications. The book is an introductory guide to Squid (especially the new features in Squid-3 series) covering both the basic aspects as well as the in dept details for [...]

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Tip: Multiproxy Switch : Easily use multiple proxies in Firefox

December 19, 2009

A lot of people (especially working people with mobile devices like notebook/netbooks) need to use different proxy servers at home and office. There are several Firefox extensions available to achieve the required functionality but IMHO Multiproxy Switch(Mozilla Addon Page) is the best because Its simple and easy to use. It does what it should. No [...]

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How To: Install/Configure GNUMP3d – Streaming Audio Server

July 23, 2009

Mission GNUMP3d is the GNU Streaming MP3/Media Server written in perl. Our mission is to setup GNUMP3d and stream audio over LAN or over internet. Below are the essential steps to install and configure GNUMP3d. Download Download latest version of GNUMP3d from GNUMP3d Website. Extract [kulbirsaini@fedora ~]$ tar -xjf gnump3d-x.x.tar.bz2 Install [root@fedora ~]$ cd gnump3d-3.0 [...]

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How To: Install and Configure GitWeb

January 28, 2009

Goal Setting up gitweb (web interface for SCM software git) for your project’s git repository for public access and developer commits via ssh. Assumptions You already have your project’s git repository. You have hosting space somewhere to host gitweb. You have root access. You are using Apache as webserver. Example for this howto Project : [...]

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How To: Boot Fedora Faster

December 9, 2008

Note: These tricks apply to any Linux based OS. But I have tested them only on Fedora, so can’t say whether they’ll work on other Linux(s). My current Fedora installation is now almost one and a half years old. Yes. I am still using Fedora 7 I have Fedora 10 on my other machine. Coming [...]

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Crack: Google Authentication Services are Vulnerable

December 5, 2008

There is a vulnerability in the way Google authentication service works. Whenever you login to any of the Google’s online services like GMail, Orkut, Groups, Docs, Youtube, Calendar etc., you are redirected to an authentication server which authenticates against the entered username and password and redirect back to the required service (GMail, Youtube etc.) setting [...]

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Humour: Funny Apache Logs

December 2, 2008

The other day I was debugging my drupal installation and had a look at the Apache error logs. And this is what I found [root@gofedora html]# tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log [Fri Nov 28 21:00:16 2008] [warn] long lost child came home! (pid 23229) [Fri Nov 28 21:00:16 2008] [warn] long lost child came home! (pid 23230) [...]

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IntelligentMirror: RPM and DEB Caching Improved (0.5)

November 19, 2008

After spending a lot of time with youtube cache, now I am trying to devote some time to update intelligentmirror with required features and enhancements that youtube cache already enjoys. In the same direction here is version 0.5 of intelligentmirror. Improvements Added max_parallel_downloads options to controll the maximum threading fetching from upstream to cache the [...]

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How To: Configure Caching Nameserver (named)

November 19, 2008

Mission To configure a caching nameserver on a local machine which will cascade to another previously configured and functional nameserver (may or may not be caching. It’ll generally be your ISP nameserver or the one provided by your organization). Advantage Reduces the delay in domain name resolution drastically as the requests for frequently accessed websites [...]

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IntelligentMirror Gets Even More Intelligent (1.0.1)

September 23, 2008

Warning : This version of IntelligentMirror is compatible with only squid-2.7 as of now. It is NOT compatible even with squid-3.0. IntelligentMirror Version 1.0.1 I have been following squid development regularly (at least the part in which I am interested) and they have introduced a new directive in squid-2.7 known as StoreUrlRewrite (storeurl_rewrite_program). Using this [...]

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