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1 About this website
2 Recent Additions
3 Popular microHOWTOs

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

2012-05-12	Hide part of an HTML or XHTML document when it is printed
2012-05-04	IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tutorial
2012-04-15	Configure Subversion to trust a given SSL certificate
2012-04-07	Get the index number of a Linux network interface in C using SIOCGIFINDEX
2012-03-31	Get the MAC address of an Ethernet interface in C using SIOCGIFHWADDR
2012-03-23	Persistently change the hostname of the local machine (Debian)
2012-03-17	Determine the fully qualified hostname of the local machine in C
2012-03-12	Create a host principal using MIT Kerberos
2012-03-01	Remove the passphrase from an existing OpenSSL key file
2012-02-26	Create a self-signed SSL certificate
2012-02-18	Send an arbitrary IPv4 datagram using a raw socket in C
2012-02-17	Fetch the content of a given URL in Perl

Popular microHOWTOs

2010-11-25	Configure an Ethernet interface as a VLAN trunk (Debian)
2010-12-19	Connect to a MySQL database using Perl DBI
2011-01-29	Increase the size of an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem
2011-01-23	Configure BIND as a slave DNS server