Running a Ubuntu server on VirtualBox
I created a virtual Ubuntu server on my Windows HTPC box using VirtualBox and VBoxVmService. This is a great setup as I can have a HTPC that's always on with a Ubuntu server running on top. The…
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Nagios
I Nagios is a wonderful tool to monitor your network devices. Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. Designed…
Latest Toastman Tomato Firmware
The latest version of Toastman Tomato Firmware is really nice (i'm using 1.28.7500.4). You can now monitor IP Traffic by IP, so you can find out if you have a rouge device on your network…
kmod-Nvidia and Centos 6
Centos 6 comes with the nouveau which doesn't work very well for my needs and the Nvidia driver works better. So heres the step to install kmod-nvidia as root. run "rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm" run "yum…
AirPrint and Ubuntu 11.10
In Ubuntu 11.10, setting up AirPrint is easy. 1. Have a Standard install of Ubuntu Desktop 11.10. 2. Go into the CUPS interface and make sure "Share published printers connected to this system" is enabled…
Ceiling Fan
Today I finished installing a ceiling fan in my son bedroom. This was a new experience and a first for me, it took a few hours and a lot of hard work. We got the…
System Administrator Appreciation Day
Today July 29, 2011 is System Administrator Appreciation Day. So Happy SysAdmin Day everyone. More information on SysAdmin Day can be found at http://www.sysadminday.com/
iPad 2 review
iPad 2 is apple second generation tablet device, it's faster, slimmer and has more RAM than the first generation iPad. Specs: 1GHz dual-core A5 CPU 512MB RAM 16GB, 32GB, 64GB storage options Front & Rear…
Export settings on a TomatoUSB router
I copied this from Toastman: Flashing a new Toastman firmware version over an older one usually won't erase your old config. However, try this method: 1) If you paste "nvram export --set" into the "Tools/System…
Converting a SSL certificate from CRT format to PEM
Some Linux applications (e.g. webmin and dovecot) require pem certificate files, to do this we use OpenSSL to convert them to pem. Step 1: openssl x509 -in ssl.crt -out ssl.der -outform DER Step 2: openssl…