I have put together a howto document to describe how the internet access on a linux computer can be filtered, and daily/weekly/monthly email reports can be sent for monitoring purposes. This was meant as a replacement for the program “Safe Eyes” as it would not run on Linux. PDF howto (6 pages) There are some… Read more Filter and monitor web access on Linux transparently
Author: mathis
JMX and firewalls
You just deployed your Java web application to production and everything is working – great! And as you always follow best practices, you included some meaningful metrics via JMX beans. You tested them locally and in test stage. But production servers have an extra firewall which prevents you from accessing any port except your web… Read more JMX and firewalls
OCR with open source tools
published by linux.com on June 24, 2008 With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses on scanning books, describes the steps you need to take to prepare pages for optimal OCR results, and compares various free OCR tools to… Read more OCR with open source tools