Da jeg selv bor i Spanien, ved jeg hvor besværligt det er at tilgå danske tjenester som f.eks. Sputnik, DR NU og ViaPlay. Der findes ikke rigtigt nogle gode proxy-udbydere i Danmark, så det har været svært at komme til at se mine favoritprogrammer på de danske kanaler. Det besluttede jeg mig at gøre noget ved.
Jeg har startet tjenesten DanskProxy.com, som er en dansk proxyserver for danskere i udlandet. Serveren hostes i Danmark, hvilket betyder, at du kan logge på serveren og derved opnå en dansk IP-adresse, som tillader dig at se tv fra Sputnik og de andre.
Du kan billigt få adgang til serveren. Da jeg blot har planer om at få serveren til at løbe rundt, har jeg sat priserne så lavt som muligt:
Serveren hostes hos Exaweb, som er en af Danmarks mest stabile hosting-udbydere. Det betyder for dig, at du kan være sikker på altid at kunne forbinde til servicen og dermed se tv fra Danmark, når du vil.
Kig forbi www.danskproxy.com, og kom i gang allerede inden for 5 minutter. Har du spørgsmål eller kommentarer, skal du være velkommen til at kontakte mig på: info@danskproxy.com.
Amazing week in Madrid. Welcome, Spring!
I recently had a discussion with an American friend of mine. The discussion was rather political as we discussed different ideologies, what works and what doesn’t work in a society, what is right and what is wrong and a number of other topics. My friend was shocked over the introduction of the recent “Fat Tax” in Denmark, which is a tax on unhealthy foods (see video here). She meant that Denmark sounded like a society greatly inspired by communism. So after I got home and I decided to write a blogpost about Denmark’s economy and society.
I wanted to write a post about how we live in Denmark. Though, I won’t write much, as I am more interested in finding sources that explain how we actually live in Denmark. Hence, this post will actually be more of a collection of articles rather than my opinion about Denmark. So here we go. I will focus on a number of topics and link to a number of online articles, which I will save using WebCite, discussing each topic. Happy reading!
Economy
Taxation
Business Environment
Happiness
Transparency
On a small side note, here’s something about Denmark’s sports culture:
Sports
I wrote this blogpost and spent time on finding the articles linked here mainly for my own sake because of the discussion with my friend. This process has learnt me even more about my own country. So in a nutshell: Yes, Denmark has some of the highest tax rates in the world. But we rank #1 on happiness, work-life balancing and transparency and we are in the world top 5 on topics such as “ease of doing business” and nominal GDP per capita. We work and pay some and we get some. That’s how Denmark works and it works well!
I’m writing this blogpost because I recently got myself a virtual private server (VPS) from the German provider Hetzner.de. I chose a small one (512 MB RAM, one CPU core, 40 GB space) for just 7.90 euros per month (including German tax that can be deducted if you’re a non-German citizen, which I am). I fired it up with Ubuntu 11.10 (the minimal version) and I wanted to get Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin running right away. So I started checking stuff out via Google and I learned a number of things. In this blogpost, I will boil these things down to a simple step-by-step guide. So here it is:
First of all, many VPS providers ship minimal versions of Linux (whether it be Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu or any other distro). So to be able to use VNC (remote desktop), you would want to setup the desktop interface. I’m running Ubuntu 11.10 here but the same commands might work for other systems. Log in via SSH and, once connected, run these commands. Setting up the desktop:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Setting up and configuring the Gnome Desktop Manager and XServer:
sudo apt-get install gdm
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Now, we would be having a fully working desktop interface on our Ubuntu server that started off being “minimal.” With this in place, we can install the VNC server that would let us connect to the server via remote desktop. I tried out different VNC servers for Ubuntu and I liked TightVNC the most. So that’s what I’m going to use:
sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
Installing TightVNC via the package manager doesn’t take long. The next step is to configure the first instance of the server. When you connect to TightVNC from your client desktop, you would normally connect via port 590x (where x is the number of the instance you want to connect to). Let’s setup the first instance:
vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -pixelformat rgb565
You will be asked to set a password. This can be of 8 characters at the most. Set the password and you’re done. Now, there is one last thing that we would need to do and that is to make TightVNC use the Gnome Desktop Manager. This is not configured by default. So open up the TightVNC config file with either VIM or nano. I will use nano here:
sudo nano ~/.vnc/xstartup
We don’t want to use x-window-manager so comment out that line by adding a number sign (#) in front of the line. Add this line to the bottom of the file:
gnome-session &
Restart your VPS by this command:
sudo reboot
Wait a minute or so before connecting via SSH again. Once the VPS has restarted, connect to it via SSH and start your TightVNC server. TightVNC does not automatically start when you reboot your VPS:
vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -pixelformat rgb565
That’s it! You’ve got VNC running on your Ubuntu server with desktop interface. Connect to it with your favorite VNC client (the Chicken of the VNC client is good for Mac and the TightVNC client is good for Windows). Use the IP or hostname given by your provider. The port to connect through would be 5901 and the password is the one you configured yourself. Done!
We’ve configured VNC for our Ubuntu VPS but in this part I will work entirely through SSH. For operations like this I prefer SSH because it’s a lot faster. Check the following blogpost for this part of setting up your LAMP server.
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As I have published on various media, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and a variety of forums, I am moving to Spain on the 26th of August to pursue my graduate studies in business administration and quantitative methods. I’ve been accepted to a great university in Madrid called Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). I’m going to study there for 2 years (starting this September) on the program MSc in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods.
I was in doubt about choosing Spain over other grad schools that I had applied to. Though, in the end, the choice came to me naturally as moving to Spain, perfecting my Spanish, living in the vibrant Spanish culture and hooking up with a lot of new Spanish friends was too appealing. I got into the school, booked my flight ticket and found myself a place to live. My address will be:
In connection with all this, I had to do a minor task of translating my diploma (in English) that I got for my BSc degree at Aarhus University. UC3M required it to be in Spanish so I checked out a couple of certified translators in Spain. I ended up choosing Leon Hunter and I am very happy about that. I had a great experience with Leon who helped me quickly and who was rapid in answering my e-mails. That was cool.
There are a lot of different translators out there — I reckon many of them might be quite rotten. For that reason, I am happy that I chose Leon and I would recommend you to do the same if you, too, are in a situation where you need to get something translated. He knows Spanish and English and has the official Spanish certification to offer those services. Check out his website here:
When I arrive to Spain (in just one week from now), I will come up with another update. I am thinking about bringing my old travelblog, www.enjoyinglife.dk, back to life. That might be fun! :-)