Author Archives: Adam Mallul

About Adam Mallul

DevOps/IT Specialist, Musician. IT Manager - Faculty of Exact Sciences, Bar-Ilan University Personal Website

WordPress SSL Encryption using Apache and mod_ssl

Overview

WordPress SSL Encryption has several options so you can encrypt just the Log-in page, the entire Admin area or the entire WordPress instance.
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OpenVPN ALS Adito SSL VPN Gateway on CentOS

Overview

OpenVPN ALS Adito SSL VPN Gateway is a web-based SSL-VPN server written in Java and it is completely free and open-source.
The installation on CentOS 6 Linux Operating System is fairly simple using the next few steps (we will use CentOS Minimal x86_64).
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SSH X11 Forwarding Display using MobaXterm on Windows

Overview

SSH X11 Forwarding Display is a tricky thing to establish on different Windows operating systems.
MobaXterm is a free Xserver and tabbed SSH client for Windows Operating Systems which allows you to run native Linux Applications like they are running on your Windows.
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Tiny Core Linux Remote Desktop Kiosk

Overview

THIS TUTORIAL ONLY SUPPORTS TINYCORE 4
FOR TINYCORE 5 THERE IS A SOLUTION IN THE COMMENTS BELOW BY Alejo


Tiny Core Linux is one of the smallest Linux distributions out there.
We will show you how to customize Tiny Core Linux Remote Desktop Kiosk so it will automatically launch a Remote Desktop client and set a Static IP address.
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Red Alert 2 Windows 8 Fix

Overview

The famous RTS game Command & Conquer – Red Alert 2 by Westwood Studios was released on October 2000 but there are still many who consider this game a must.
Westwood Studios was bought by Electronic Arts (EA) in 1998, and closed by EA in 2003.
With the release of Microsoft Windows 8 the game Red Alert 2 stopped working.
Follow these next few steps to Fix Red Alert 2 on Windows 8 x32 and x64 bit.

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Apache VPS Optimization

Apache VPS Optimization – Memory Usage Tuning

I’ve recently had the need to optimize my VPS plan so it won’t consume that much memory.
The main culprit was Apache with more then a few processes using over 50MB.

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Load Balancing SSH Connections using Pen on CentOS Linux

Overview

Load Balancing SSH Connections using Pen, a load balancer for “simple” tcp based protocols such as http or smtp.
It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside and automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.

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Load balancing Remote Desktop Services using Pen

Overview

Load balancing Remote Desktop Services using Pen, a load balancer for “simple” tcp based protocols such as http or smtp.
It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside and automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.

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