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How to add a proftpd user?

proftpd is the FTP daemon used on Host Europe Linux VPS servers, so these are the instructions you need if you want to add an FTP user there without (!) adding a domain in Plesk and creating a user that way.

It’s simple:

In the command line, use the adduser command: adduser somename Do NOT [...]

How to avoid that e-mails sent from Host Europe VPS arrive as spam?

When sending e-mails from a Host Europe virtual server (here: Virtual Server Linux), they can arrive in the receipient’s spam folder. This depends on the spam filter configuration of course, but did at least happen with a near-default SpamAssassin setup as available on Hostgator Baby Plan as of 2011-10 (valuating a mail with 7.2 points, [...]

How to use KiCAD to create wiring diagrams?

While a schematics capture application is more targeted for PCB circuits, it can also be great for wiring diagrams. Here are some tips to get the most out of KiCAD for that purpose:

Wires cannot be annotated with name/value pairs in KiCAD. But you can create a point-type “wire meta component” yourself, maybe looking like [...]

What open content Unicode fonts can be recommended?

We now have quite a good variety of free software Unicode fonts available, as can be seen from the Wikipedia free Unicode fonts overview. With that comes the difficulty to choose. So, here is my analysis in the context of searching a complete set of great free fonts for writing a thesis document:

My recommended [...]

How to back up a complete hard disk to compact size?

This is my current (2011-09) technique to create a compressed image of a complete hard disk and to restore it later. It works both for disks and partitions wth an operating system and with just data on it (it does not care at all what is on the disk). You should be able to restore [...]

What time banking software can be recommended?

Background: alternative economy concepts

A financial-economic crisis (like this or this or this) makes us think what’s wrong with our economic systems, and search for alternatives. For example, one would search for grassroots ways to organize mutual service and exchange of goods without using legal tender, as the latter can be a scarce resource due [...]

How to write a thesis in FreeMind?

Note: This is a work in progress as it documents the experiences I currently make while writing the paper. So it might not present the optimum solutions yet.

Is FreeMind adequate for writing a thesis?

My last thesis was written in OpenOffice.org (now LibreOffice), and the one feature I really missed there was a comfortable [...]

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