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Guide: HAProxy HTTP Basic Authentication for specific sites (SSL Termination)

Objective I use HAProxy to serve multiple SSL/TLS enabled sites with HAProxy doing SSL termination. The sites serve regular HTTP while users see proper HTTPS sites (with free certificates from LetsEncrypt). My objective was to provide HTTP Basic Authentication as a second layer of protection for certain applications like NextCloud (DropBox clone) or Gitea (GitHub […]

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Why more decision makers prefer SaaS Solution

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Economic Impact of Bad Code ~ 85B USD GDP Loss

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SOGo Groupware database update after yum upgrade is not normally necessary as it merely reduces the number of tables created for a new collection.

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Pros and Cons of Hosting your own Nameservers

Benefits of hosting your Nameservers Ease of changing hosting providers: Having your own nameservers make it easy when you are changing your hosting providers for two reasons: Zero downtime in switching Minimal change on Domain Register (change Nameserver and Hostname reords only) Other nameserver changes can be done easily with your own nameserver, even scripted […]

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Chrome: How to view YouTube at 3x Speed

When viewing a YouTube video you may want to quickly skip through introductory section or boring/repetitive parts. The following solution will allow you to toggle between high speed and normal viewing. 3x speed-up is not offered by YouTube. With little practice you can understand even at that high speed, you need to be a bit […]

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Grails: Validating User Domain class

Grails provides support for validating fields. Here is a typical User class with field validation. It ensure that email address & url is of proper format, login is unique and password is not openly displayed. package com.taragana class User { String login String password String email String url static constraints = { login unique: true […]

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Script to kill all GradleDaemon processes – gkill

GradleDaemon sometimes redundantly runs in the background and Grails gives erroneous responses. The simplest solution is to kill all the errant GradleDaemon processes and run the app again. Below is a simple script which will run all the errant GradleDaemon processes. The same can be used for killing any processes like say Firefox. Just substitute […]

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Bash: How to trim leading, following spaces from text

Many Linux/Unix commands are shown formatted like ps -ef for instance. As such it becomes difficult to process them subsequently in the pipeline, like for instance passing it to xargs kill for killing the filtered errant processes. The command below, when part of a bash / sh pipeline will remove the leading and following spaces […]

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How to incrementally mirror FTP site regularly

Daily Business Data, like NAV, is often made available via FTP servers which stores and makes available the data for limited time duration (like a week). We need to not only download the data for the day but also want to ensure that the historical data remains intact. Today I will show you how you […]