One of my university modules tasked me with developing a Caesar cipher decryption tool. The tool had to be able to decrypt any encrypted text without knowing the offset used to encrypt the text. The code is surprisingly short and…
Owncloud does not prevent brute forces attacks by itself and a hacker could try thousands of passwords continuously until they crack it. Fail2ban can be used to prevent this type of attack. Owncloud does not log failed login attempts by…
I recently decided to install Arch on my desktop and thought I’d give KDE another go. I have been using Gnome 3 on my laptop for a while and I wanted to try something else. One issue had been integrating…
I got a secure certificate from StartSSL which is completely free. This has the advantage that it is a fully validated certificate so you will no longer get those warning messages from browsers. I used a 2048 bit key which…
This has been very frustrating as I initially thought Ubuntu would not sleep because of the graphics drivers. I figured out it would not sleep when the mythtv backend service was running. It would just sit there with a blinking…
I like to use the network applet within Linux instead of using the supplied openVPN terminal tool. Download the ovpn file which by default is called client.ovpn Now we need to extract the following from the file into new files:…
This post will show you how to add multiple custom fields to Horde 5’s Address Book Application. Annoyingly the system only has an email field by default but there are several ways to easily enable a workEmail and HomeEmail field.…
This information has been sourced from the owncloud documentation. owncloud Documentation The following has to be added to the /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php file if you would like owncloud to send password reminder emails. I have created my own mail server and therefore…
