Articles in the How-to Category

Wanita & Komputer - A website for women in computing
By paan
Posted in How-to, Links on 3 April 2008
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I have stumbled upon Wanita & Komputer. The tag line says it all “Tips mudah komputer hanya untuk wanita”.Roughly translated into ”Easy computing tips just for women”.

I think what makes me so excited about this site is that it does perfectly what I am trying to do most of the time. Give simple tips to ease [...]

Compiling slocate on Solaris 10
By paan
Posted in Featured, How-to on 25 March 2008
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The gnu secure locate utility or more commonly known as slocate is a very usefull utility to have. Not only does it index the drive so that seaches are done to a compressed database instead of the filesystem to speed it up, slocate also apply security restriction to searches so that you can only see the [...]

Solaris 10 has nothing on me.. Yeah.. (Solaris 10 OpenLDAP SASL KerberosAuthentication)
By paan
Posted in How-to on 26 January 2008
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For the whole of last week, I was busying myself with trying to get OpenLDAP to do Kerberos-SASL(GSSAPI) authentication on a Solaris 10.
I ran into quite a few problems on the way and by showing everybody the problems and their solution I hope I can save everybody else some time and effort.
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