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About this website
Documentation for Open Source software is often presented in the form of a HOWTO: a set of instructions that tell you how to use the product. A miniHOWTO is a shortened HOWTO that covers the main points only, and a microHOWTO is shorter still.
On this website each microHOWTO:
- provides instructions for a single defined task;
- includes advice about testing and troubleshooting;
- lists the systems on which it has been tested; and
- is presented in a standard format.
Recent Additions
| 2018-12-15 | Capture Ethernet frames using an AF_PACKET ring buffer in C |
| 2018-12-08 | Capture Ethernet frames using an AF_PACKET socket in C |
| 2018-04-22 | DNS zone file tutorial |
| 2017-02-19 | Mount a partition located inside a file or logical volume |
| 2016-01-10 | Make an AJAX request using XMLHttpRequest |
| 2015-04-26 | Convert leading spaces to tabs in a text file |
| 2015-04-25 | Iterate over a map in Java |
| 2015-02-28 | Pad an integer with leading zeros in C++ |
| 2014-10-04 | Configure an Ethernet interface as a QinQ VLAN trunk |
| 2014-09-07 | Ensure symmetric routing on a server with multiple default gateways |
| 2014-08-25 | Inspect the value of a cookie in JavaScript |
| 2014-07-28 | Delete a cookie in JavaScript |
Popular microHOWTOs
| 2011-01-29 | Increase the size of an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem |
| 2010-11-25 | Configure an Ethernet interface as a VLAN trunk (Debian) |
| 2011-01-23 | Configure BIND as a slave DNS server |
| 2010-12-19 | Connect to a MySQL database using Perl DBI |
| 2011-03-30 | Change the MTU of a network interface |
| 2011-03-13 | Reduce the size of an LVM logical volume |
| 2010-12-01 | Configure an Ethernet interface as a VLAN trunk (Red Hat) |
| 2010-12-13 | Connect to a PostgreSQL database using Perl DBI |
| 2011-01-07 | Mirror a Subversion repository |
| 2012-01-14 | Make the configuration of iptables persistent (Debian) |
| 2011-01-30 | Increase the size of an LVM logical volume |
| 2011-03-16 | Reduce the size of an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem |