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Managing VPNs from the CLI in Linux

Mar

14

2013

Since I have finally made the switch on my work laptop to use Linux (Ubuntu 12.10) as my primary OS, I have found a few bugs that slow me down on a regular basis. One of the bugs is that the nm-applet will stop working correctly and won’t let me make any changes to the ...

Kegerator Build Part 2: Adding a tower 3

Nov

11

2012

Adding a tower I wrote up my initial kegerator build here and promised more details when I added a tower. Well, I didn’t do any documentation during my tower install and I took forever to even take pics of the finished project, but I finally did take a few pics, so here is a quick write-up ...

Kegerator Build Part 1: Converting the Fridge 22

Jul

20

2011

I found a good deal on CraigsList for a small GE fridge that I have been able to convert into a 2 corny kegerator. It is GE model WMR04BAPBB. I have not added a tower to it yet, but do plan on adding that in the future. There is a diagram on the back of ...

Run ASDM in Linux

Jul

17

2010

Here’s how to run Cisco’s ASDM client in Linux: First, verify that you have a compatible version of java: java -version Next, navigate to the URL of the ASA/Pix, select “Run ASDM” and save the file to you computer. Finally, open a terminal window, navigate to where you downloaded the ASDM launcher and run this ...

Find drive space hogs in Linux

Jul

1

2010

Here is a command that I’ve worked out to help find the source of drive space issues in Linux. This format will only look at directories (ie, it will not report file sizes, just size of directories) and it will recurse into subdirectories. du | sort -n -r | head | awk ‘{print $2}’ | ...

Configure Linux client for BackupPC

Mar

24

2010

Instructions to add a linux client to an existing BackupPC installation. These are also good instructions for allowing automatic login from another PC. The full how-to can be found at HowToForge. Log into BackupPC with backuppc user at http://ServerIP/backuppc. Click the link to “Edit Hosts” and add the hostname of the new client. Add the ...

Outbound mail

Dec

19

2009

I recently set up a security camera and wanted to be able to mail myself security events. The first thing I had to do was get AT&T to open port 25 from my house. This was painlessly done by asking an agent in the online support chat. Within a minute of asking if it can ...

Log onto another user’s mailbox using OWA in Exchange 2007

Nov

7

2009

It is possible to connect to another users mailbox (if you have proper permissions) using OWA. The trick is to append the users mailbox to the OWA URL. For example, if the URL to your OWA was: https://webmail.mycompany.com/owa you would simple go to https://webmail.mycompany.com/owa/[email protected] You can then log in with any user account that has ...

Edit photo timestamps

Oct

18

2009

After moving photos around my network, the file timestamps no longer match when the photo was actually taken. Using digiKam, I confirm that the exif data is correct and then use jhead to synchronize the exif data with the file timestamps. The syntax that works best for me is this: jhead -ft *.jpg I actually ...

Moved to a new host

Sep

25

2009

I have been working on moving my website to a new host over the last couple days, so here are a few of the things that “got me” along the way. I created an account with hostmonster.com to take advantage of “unlimited” drive space as well as the ability to ssh into my web server. ...