Subversion Installation on Debian with Plesk – Without Security Issue

Available at http://www.bluehelp.de/tutorial/svn-debian-plesk.html there is a good (German) description on how to set up a Subversion repository on a Debian system if also Parallels Plesk Panel is installed. However, there is one thing that needs improvement there: When generating the HTTP password file it is being generated with unix rights which can pose a security thread to your system. This post describes how to fix that.

Windows 7 Home Premium and QEMU in SMP mode

I recently played around with a Linux Kernel as host operating system and having Windows 7 Home Premium as guest. My intention was to implement an easy-to-use sandbox system for someone in my family (a good starting point may be here). The hardware should be a Core 2 Duo processor. As he will most likely …

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Logon with SSH takes long until the password prompt is being displayed

Since some time I experienced the problem that it took me ages to logon via SSH to some of my maintained servers on the web until the password prompt is being shown on the command line. After googling a bit I found a post describing my problem which I would like to recommend to the …

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