Ad-Blocking with BIND9 and NGINX

31. Oktober 2015 in Administration, GNU/Linux.

In my intranet, where hosts are in a subnet 192.168.2.0/24 and domain names in a domain mydomain, I use BIND9 as DNS, running on host intradns.mydomain , and NGINX as a webserver running on intraweb.mydomain. I would like to rewrite all subdomains of certain public domains (spammers and trackers) using my intranet DNS to a […]

I18n of Bourne Shell Scripts Using “gettext.sh”

18. August 2015 in GNU/Linux, Programming.

This article shows how to make a Bourne Shell script translatable by means of the “gettext” toolchain and how it then operates with natural language strings translated into the user’s language.

“jack-autostart” – Setup and Start Scripts for jackd

9. September 2015 in GNU/Linux, Multimedia, Programming, Technology.

“jack-autostart” is essentially a start script (I use it for my XFCE sessions) that starts „jackd“ with appropriate command line parameters and configures as many applications as possible to route playback to the JACK service. For this purpose, redirect all ALSA playback to JACK, and set JACK as default audiosink/-source for GStreamer.