Another great open source software.

Untangle is basically a Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution designed for SMBs (up to about 300 users, although there are people who have successfully deployed it in much bigger environments, like this one, for example, with 1600+ users). Untangle packaged all these great open source security software together and then provided a really nice and very intuitive user interface for them simplifying installation and management. They also have commercial …

I have a virtual machine set up running Fedora 9 on my home network which I mainly use for SSH tunneling and I just realized that this version of Fedora now uses rsyslog as its default syslog daemon.

I wanted to send a copy of the syslog messages for SSH to my central syslog server so I can easily keep track of login attempts to my server from the outside.

Here are the steps:

1. Open …

So I took a laptop home from work tonight to do some tests and I forgot that I haven’t logged in to that laptop with my domain account for quite some time now so I of course got the message “Domain YOURDOMAIN is not available” and I couldn’t log in.

I connect to our network over a VPN connection using Cisco VPN Client but I first have to be logged in to Windows to do …

I’ve been playing with this open source collaboration/wiki/mashup software for a couple of weeks now and I have to say that I’m very impressed with it so far.

I set up a wiki website at work almost two years ago using the MediaWiki engine mainly for sharing documentations, which works fine but it could have been much better if certain features came built-in with it.

MindTouch Deki has all these features that I wanted and …

I was looking through some old notes and found this, hope this helps:

1. PXE boot on the computer you wish to image.
2. At the first prompt, choose the option “Exit to command Prompt.”
3. Map a network drive to your distribution share and run ImageX. Example:
   1. net use x: \\bddserver\distribution
   2. cd x:\Tools\x86
   3. imagex /capture c: x:\Captures\ImageName.wim “Computer Image Description”