OpenVPN with Webmin

These people did a great job on the OpenVPN Module for Webmin. Download to your computer. Open Webmin, Webmin Configuration, Webmin Modules. Then upload the file (example: openvpn-2.5.wbm.gz) and tada!...

Linux Software RAID1

Some useful commands for software RAID1 on Linux. mdadm commands: Query and get details about the RAID. mdadm –detail /dev/md0 Fail Drive: mdadm –fail /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 Remove Drive: mdadm –remove /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 Install new drive and copy...

Personal PC Protection

I have been working on several family members computers lately. Many of them having either expired AntiVirus and/or no AntiSpyware. As a general rule here is the software that I install to protect personal computers. General rules for Windows XP. Grisoft AVG 8.0 Free...

User Agent Switcher for Firefox

One problem I have had is that many websites require Internet Explorer instead of Firefox. An addon “User Agent Switcher” for Firefox will fool the website into thinking that you are using Internet Explorer and show the content anyways. I’m still...

SSH Utilities

Putty and WinSCP are two indispensable utilities for controlling and administering Linux boxes. More for my own purposes I have uploaded the installers but I put the websites down also. Putty Official website: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ WinSCP...

SCP CLI from Linux

Most of the time I use Putty and WinSCP from Windows to my Linux boxes. I often forget the syntax for scp on the command line. Here’s a quick note. scp -P [port] file.tar.gz root@[IP]:/path/to/file.tar.gz

IPCop Update Accelerator

I had run out of space on / on the IPCop box. The installer sets /var/logs as the largest partition because once you install IPCop its supposed to sit forever and just log stuff. So when Update Accelerator installed it stored the update to /home/httpd/html/updatecache...

Move IPCop Update Accelerator Data

The update Accelerator keeps everything under /home/httpd/html/updatecache. Then it puts it under Adobe, Linux, Microsoft, Symantec, Avast and such. The real thing is that if your needing to transfer everything from one computer to another and across the Internet,...