by admin | Dec 14, 2008 | Linux, Web
I have a server that sits at a desk all by itself, not running anything terribly important, and frequently I found myself needing to have a workstation there. Since Ubuntu Server doesn’t come with a GUI I went ahead and installed it via… apt-get install...
by admin | Dec 14, 2008 | IPCop, Linux, VPN, Web
The Zerina (OpenVPN) addon for IPCop is an excellent VPN addon. One thing it does for simplicity is the keys are compiled into a pkcs12 (*.P12) file, which contains the Certificate Authority, the Certificate, and the Key for authentication. Which is great if you are...
by admin | Nov 23, 2008 | Linux
I just had a Ubuntu install with an older Linksys Wireless card. Long story short I tried the ndswrapper from command line to install the driver without luck. I usually like to try and figure these things out however I didn’t have much time to play this time. ...
by admin | Nov 21, 2008 | IPCop, Linux
I recently replaced my IPCop firewall computer and had a perfect chance to test my backups. I like to customize my IPCop install so I have the Advanced Proxy, URL Filter, Update Accelerator, Block out Traffic, ntop, Zerina (OpenVPN), Firewall Logs (Pie Charts for...
by admin | Sep 29, 2008 | Linux
hdparm -t /dev/sda Should see something like this… /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 728 MB in 3.00 seconds = 242.41 MB/sec This was taken from a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with RAID5.
by admin | Sep 16, 2008 | Linux
I was needing to decommision an old SLES9 install with eDirectory. To properly remove eDirectory at the console run: ndsconfig rm -a cn=admin.o=CONTEXT Sucessfully removed eDirectory for a fresh install of SLES 10.1 with OES.
