After 2 years of bad cellular service and having to deal with a locked down cell phone platform and proprietary software to sync MY data, MY pictures and MY contacts, I decided it’s time to break free. I dumped the cellular carrier (ATT), paid my early termination fees for my service and my wife’s too, […]
Package management goodness Debian style
After being a RedHat user until about 2002, which is about the time of Redhat 7 or 8, I decided I didn’t want to play the RPM game any more. You know the game, “Dependencies, dependencies, Oh Gosh no, DEPENDENCIES!” Why must I download a bunch of stuff just to install an RPM, and heaven […]
Cloning a hard disk to a smaller hard disk
I have 2 identical laptops. One had a hard drive failure and I had to replace the 80 GB disk with an extra 60GB disk that I had lying around. I wanted to clone Laptop A to Laptop B. I had a working install of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic and so far I dislike how Ubuntu 10.X (10.04 […]
Installed Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 today
I had my laptop’s hard drive fail today. It’s been going out for a while, but I had convinced myself that I could fsck the drive and fix it…over and over and over again. After I replaced the hard drive with a spare I had lying around, I couldn’t find the Ubuntu 10.04 disk that […]
OpenLDAP Server With Server-Side SSL/TLS using Self Signed Certificates
OpenLDAP Server With Server-Side SSL/TLS using Self Signed Certificates This document assumes that you already have OpenLdap installed. This was written using the OpenLdap 2.3 RPMs. OpenLdap should be configured and tested without TLS to make sure it works properly. Once you can authenticate and OpenLdap works predictably you can move on to […]
Tunnel web browser through an SSH tunnel
This is for people who want to browse, but not have their traffic snooped on. Tunnel web browser through an SSH tunnel!
RDP to a host behind a firewall
Here is a quick tutorial on how to RDP to a host behind a firewall.
Simple MRTG
MRTG (The Multi Router Traffic Grapher) is a application to graph data. It is designed to graph network devices through put and loads, but can be tweaked to graph anything that you can get a numeric value for. Prerequisites: Apache or other web server. I use apache for this tutorial. (apt-get install apache or apt-get […]