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Category: OpenBSD

My calendar to schedule meetings

Posted on 2018-08-11 19:17:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

As you know, I'm using Openbox + Tint2 on OpenBSD. Tint2 is a very nice panel bar which has lot of flexibility. On this page I'm presenting my calendar application which allow you to copy/paste the selected dates. I do no know if this will be useful, but it was fun for me to develop it. I spent only few hours to have it. And it's rare to mention, it runs on windows too.

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Tell your BSD story

Posted on 2018-08-06 22:17:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD

Roman Zolotarev contacts me in order to answer some of his questions. Basically his idea is to help beginners to discover and use BSD operating systems and related projects.

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Hardening your openbsd machine.

Posted on 2018-07-13 12:42:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Firewall

You have selected OpenBSD because this is one of the most secured OS (maybe the most secured :-) ), but people around you ask to go further. Your current machine is directly facing internet and some people fear that this machine could be compromised. In this blog I will explain what I did to secure one of my machine.

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A cron for laptop and non permanent machines.

Posted on 2018-07-11 14:06:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop vdcron

I'm a big fan of cron on my servers to trigger several tasks: monitoring reports, backups, security checks, ... But I was annoyed that on laptops such tasks are not possible. Mainly because the laptop does not always run, or is not always connected to the correct network. So, as explained in one of my previous [blog](http://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20180521), existing solution does not fully fit my needs. So, vdcron was born. This blog mark the release 0.5.3 of vdcron

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Network Manager Control for OpenBSD

Posted on 2018-05-26 15:14:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop nmctl

nmctl is no more maintained
Some additional words concerning my nmctl script: improvement, communication, ...

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A cron for laptops

Posted on 2018-05-21 12:17:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop vdcron

I was looking for a simple cron like tool that help me to perform tasks on one specific day on my laptop and desktops. Unfortunately the embedded cron in OpenBSD is not foreseen for workstations or laptop that we shutdown (or hibernate) regularly.

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Network Manager ControL for OpenBSD

Posted on 2018-04-11 15:11:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop nmctl

nmctl is no more maintained
[In this blog](/post/post_20171023) I've shared with you my small script allowing a easier Network management tool for OpenBSD. This blog will present some enhancements on this tool

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Tint2 snippet for Battery

Posted on 2018-03-30 19:25:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

As discussed in this [blog](/post/post_20180310), I'll detail battery snippet for Tint2.

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Tint2 snippet for Audio

Posted on 2018-03-29 19:29:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

As discussed in this [blog](/post/post_20180310), I'll detail my Audio snippet for Tint2.

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Tint2 snippet for network

Posted on 2018-03-28 20:38:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

As discussed in this [blog](/post/post_20180310), I'll detail my Network snippet for Tint2.

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