A quick note this time around: After installing Docker on my Linux Mint laptop, I wanted to be able to run it with my normal user account and not have to SUDO every time I wanted to start a container. (Please be advised that doing so can be considered a HUGE security hole, but since I am just …
The TOR project was started by United States Naval Research Lab employees in the early part of the 21st century as a way to protect intelligence communications online. It was open sourced in 2004, and continues to be supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. As privacy as continued to decline on the Internet, interest in the Tor Browser and Tor …
NoSQL databases are multiplying faster that anyone could have imagined when Google released their Google File System and MapReduce papers in 2003 and 2004 – the inspiration for a host of NoSQL database developers. The NoSQL project that became Apache Cassandra was originally developed at Facebook as the back-end for their Inbox Search feature. It was released as open …
Linux Mint has been consistently at the top of the DistroWatch top ten list for more than a year due I am sure to its ease of use and solid performance. As a general purpose distribution, Mint is offered with several different desktop environments, but interestingly, no separate server distribution. However, it is possible to configure Mint …
This is part 4 (the last part) of my series on using Apache Directory Server (ApacheDS), an open source LDAP implementation. Parts 1–2 covered getting ApacheDS installed, as well as connecting the configuration application to it to make changes to the structure of the directory. In part 3, I walked through adding a new Organizational …
In part 1 of this series, I covered installing the Apache Directory Server (ApacheDS), an open source LDAP server and in part 2, I discussed configuring the Apache Directory Studio application to connect to your ApacheDS instance. In this third part, I will look at replacing the default Example schema in ApacheDS with a new …