I finally put out a little money to get a low-end storage solution for the house. I wanted something with fast network access and removable hard drives. The solution I finally picked was the DLINK DNS-323, with 3 1T SATA drives which, while having some problems it is very customizable. Read More...

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Apparently there is an evil bug in the Samba implementation of Ubuntu Server that can cause segmentation faults on all logon attempts. This will affect email, ssh, secured web logins and console logins. Read More...

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Apparently the remote management will fail to install on the latest Ubuntu 8.10 image. This is too bad since it is the recommended remote management tool for Ubuntu 8.10. Read More...

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I finally found a few hours free to load a Debian Linux system onto a compact flash card. I chose voyage-linux for its customization options and rw filesystem. It was a little easier than I had expected since I was able to load the voyage install iso through vmware directly into a Compact Flash Card using and IDE adaptor. From there I just followed the voyage instructions.

After that, it was simply a matter of configuring the prism and atheros wifi cards as clients to my network and running apt-get update. I've added in a few other useful softwares such as quagga, nano-tiny, ntpdate, iptraf, wavemon, iperf, whois, wondershaper, mc.

I wanted to also install ntop but I am having problems getting it to run in the ro environment. I just need to get Captive Portal working now, and maybe look at the mesh version. Every so often I run out of memory when I try to use dselect but using mainly apt-get works great.

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