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Welcome to my personal blog. The main purpose of this blog is to describe the projects that keep me busy in my spare time and hopefully this will help other people out who are working on similar projects.
Feel free to ask any questions concerning the topics described here! Use the contact form to contact me.

How to configure the firewall on Ubuntu using UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall)

Posted in "News"Ubuntu firewall

This article was last updated on Saturday 25th of April 2020 @ 16:16 PM CEST
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The default firewall configuration tool for Ubuntu is Ufw and stands for "Uncomplicated Firewall". It was developed to ease ip-tables firewall configuration, and provides a user friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall. Ubuntu already has a very good tutorial on how to use Ufw which your can...

 Read more Article was posted on Wednesday 15th of April 2020 @ 17:09 PM CEST   comment(s)

How to setup Sendmail as a smarthost on Ubuntu LTS

Posted in "News"Ubuntu mail sendmail

This article was last updated on Saturday 25th of April 2020 @ 16:15 PM CEST
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Some Internet service providers (ISP) do not allow you to have a working mail server due to anti-spam policies, they block all outgoing traffic on port 25.

However, you can use the mail server of your ISP to send your mails. In this article I will describe how to set up sendmail...

 Read more Article was posted on Monday 29th of August 2011 @ 06:47 AM CEST   comment(s)

How to setup NTP time synchronisation server on Ubuntu.

Posted in "News"Ubuntu NTP time synchronisation

This article was last updated on Saturday 25th of April 2020 @ 12:32 PM CEST
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Note: Although the below guide is still usable, you should be aware that since Ubuntu 18.04LTS, NTP has been replaced by Chrony instead. More on this here: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/network-ntp 

NTP is a TCP/IP protocol for synchronising time over a network. Basically a client requests the current time from a...

 Read more Article was posted on Wednesday 15th of April 2020 @ 17:40 PM CEST   comment(s)

Build your own media-center (TV-Vlaanderen)

Posted in "News"MythTV Kodi TV-Headend TV-Vlaanderen Satellite Mediacenter

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I haven't posted anything for a year now because last year, 2012, has been quite a busy year, and still some busy times ahead though. But I thought it was really time to post something new, in particular a mix of old and new information about the media-center build. I'll try...

 Read more Article was posted on Sunday 10th of March 2013 @ 09:12 AM CET   comment(s)

Ubuntu MythTV iPhone and iPad remote

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If you the owner of an iPhone, another type of smart-phone or even an iPad, it could come in handy to have them to act as a remote control for your MythTV installation based on Ubuntu (this works on MythBuntu too!). I was planning to write some sort of remote control...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzyhNuTU4k

 Read more Article was posted on Wednesday 14th of December 2011 @ 09:21 AM CET   comment(s)

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