http://www.routerboard.com/index.php

http://www.wdlsystems.com/modperl/view_services.cgi?r=detail&prod_num=1EBX454&aisle_id=1031

http://www.soekris.com/net4501.htm – personal experience with this board, case, and pfSense firewall is my best bet.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/ProductDetail.jsp?id=710

http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/security/

http://www.checkpoint.com/products/index.html#gateways

http://vanilla.co.za/linksys_special.php

• Click Start, and then click Computer.
• On the Organize menu, click Folder and Search Options.
• On the View tab, click Show hidden files and folders, and then click OK.
• Click the “Start” Button, in “Start Search” box, type: “%systemroot%\System32″ (without quotes) and press Enter.
• In the open system32 folder, look for following files.
• OGAEXEC.exe
• OGACheckControl.dll
• OGAAddin.dll
• OGAVerify.exe
• Right-click rename them to
• OGAEXEC.old
• OGACheckControl.old
• OGAAddin.old
• OGAVerify.old
• Note: If the OGAVerify.exe cannot be found, please disregard it.

Desktop versions include KDE 4.3 and Gnome 2.28. Gnome users will taste a new UI called Sonar.

For more improvement and release details, visit the Open Suse pages at:

http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.2#What.27s_new_in_openSUSE_11.2.3F

Download Ubuntu 9.10

You can download Ubuntu 9.10 from the offical repositories here, or obtain the images from my server here. I operate a web site called OlyUbuntu as a local resources for Ubuntu users in Olympia, WA.

dpkg –list – lists all software currently installed

chage -M 100 userNAME – forces the user to change their password in 100 days

adduser userNAME admin – adds a  user to the admin group

mdadm –detail /dev/md0 – provides soft RAID detailed information

netstat -tulpn – lists all open ports and associated programs

nmap olyubuntu.com – maps ports of a domain

hddtemp /dev/sda – lists temperature of hard drive (must install hddtemp)

cat /proc/mdadm – lists active RAID arrays

DOWNLOAD Ubuntu 9.10RC VMware Image 678.3MB

VMware Image Details: hostname:guest, username:guest, password:password, LosAngeles timezone

GnomeTools is the new alpha alpha version of Gnome panel and window manager. Test installation requires Gnome 2.26 or higher, which means that Ubuntu 8.04 will not function – I tried… I’ll get to it, here is a screenshot (photo credit).

Installation

You can try out GnomeTools with the following terminal commands.

<ul>
  <li>curl -O http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell-build-setup.sh</li>
  <li>/bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh</li>
  <li>jhbuild build</li>
  <li>jhbuild build -f -a -c</li>
  <li>cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src</li>
  <li>./gnome-shell --replace</li>
</ul>

Results

Initially, I tried out the procedure using a VMware image of Ubuntu 9.04. My build process was still going after 4 hours, so I aborted and moved on to try it on a real 9.04 installation. After 2 hours of waiting for the build process, I aborted again. Hopefully, you will read this, try it on your machine, and get back to me with the results! Also, if anyone is successful in creating a VMware Image (.vmx), I would be happy to host the download. Good luck!

Resources

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

http://maketecheasier.com/gnome-shell-your-next-desktop-environment/2009/09/09

INSTALLATION

A RAID1 installation requires 2 identical hard drives (they can be different capacit drives but need to be of the same brand and model). Using your Ubuntu Server install CD, create 3 partitions that are RAID arrays. I used three partitions because it works well. 1 partition of 1GB for the boot loader, 1 partition of 2GB for the swap, and the remaining space for your distribution. Back to the installation… I created these 3 partitions on each drive and made them RAID (not ext3 – that will come later). When you are done with that, create a RAID MD device (actually 3 of them) You have to remember which partitions are for what. For instance, sda1 and sdb1 are for the /boot and so on. the RAID MD is where you specify ext3, swap, and /boot.

Finish the installation and verify your installation with the commands below.

Verify your md0, md1, and md2 software RAID partitions with the command below. You need to check all of your md* partitions to ensure that you did your job correctly. Initially, you should see that your array is syncing as a percentage. Depending on your hard drive size and processor, it could take 30 minutes to several hours to complete the mirroring.

sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0

sudo cat /proc/mdstat

md2 : active raid1 sdb3[0] sdc3[1]
242236032 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md4 : active raid1 sdb2[0] sdc2[1]
1951808 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md3 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sdc1[1]
979840 blocks [2/2] [UU]

If you have further questions make sure to comment here or check out this guy’s page (http://kuparinen.org/martti/comp/ubuntu/en/raid.html).

fstab

I saved most of the .conf files along the way including the fstab. But, what I realized is that the UUID’s for my old schema were not the same as my current configuration. Therefore, I had to reinstall twice because I was stupid! Several posts indicated that a user could run a LiveCD and copy the fstab from the directory. However, as I found out, the LiveCD’s only mount swap partitions and not the drives. The best solution was to reinstall and immediately make a copy of the fstab and put it in the /etc/ directory.

sudoers

Next, I tried to add my username to the /etc/sudoers file using vi. Unfortunately, I made  a syntax error and basically locked myself out of sudo. The solution was to use a LiveCD of Ubuntu Server and edit the sudoers file using /usr/sbin/visudo. The best way of adding your username to the sudoers file is by the following Terminal command:

sudo adduser user-name root

The next task was to add the 9 domains to my apache directory and configure bind for all of them. I am telling you now, make sure that you backup all of your files before you reinstall. Here was my list:

ssh, fail2ban, bind9, apache, web files, interaces, resolv.conf, hosts, smb.conf, php.ini, and ufw

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