Tape Backup Script
MRTG Sidewinder Firewall
MRTG Sidewinder Firewall
SSH Pubkey Authentication
Login to a remote server from another server with SSH Pubkey Authentication, and avoid the password prompt.
OpenLDAP Server With Server-Side SSL/TLS using Self Signed Certificates
This document assumes that you already have OpenLDAP installed. We used the OpenLDAP 2.3 RPMs available from: http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/buchan/openldap/rhel4/. There is some good documentation on installing setting up OpenLdap at http://web.singnet.com.sg/~garyttt/Installing and configuring OpenLDAP for RedHat Enterprise Linux3.htm . OpenLDAP should be configured and tested without TLS to make sure it works properly. Once you can authenticate […]
Debian, Asterisk and Google Voice For Free Home Telephone Service
We’ve decided to cut costs. One big cost is Cable and the phone service that is bundled with it. With some research I realized we could use Debian, Asterisk and Google Voice For Free Home Telephone Service.
Windows 7 Telnet
OK, not a huge Windows fan, but Win 7 is ok… until you have to troubleshoot a network issue. I like to telnet to ports to see if they are open and if they answer (telnet 192.168.1.13 993). Windows always wants to pretend that it doesn’t have telnet and has never even heard of it […]
Gamin with Courier Imap
I just wasted my entire day fighting an issue I thought was a courier-imap or courier-imap-ssl 4.10 authentication issue in Debian. It turns out it was a Gamin package error. If I killed the Gamin process I could temporarily log back in. My fix? Uninstall Gamin and then ‘apt-get autoremove’. This will likely remove all […]
Installing Honeycomb on a ViewSonic gTablet
The ViewSonic gTablet hardware was capable of so much more than the stock ROM would allow. Installing Honeycomb on a ViewSonic gTablet
My All-in-One home server
One day not to long ago I realized that my sweltering office was heating the entire house. It was so bad that our basement, that used to be very cool and temperate had become a sauna. My family room is in the basement so everyone was suffering. I decided to assess what I had running […]
Wanted: CCTV card
Looking for a 4-8 port pci or pci-e CCTV card if anyone has one. I am building a home security DVR using ZoneMinder. If you have one you’d like to donate please let me know!