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Mod_Rewrite in Apache2

Just incase you forget how to fix this the easy way: Enable mod_rewrite for URL voodoo

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What to do when Ubuntu Device-mapper seems to be invincible!

I’ve been trying a dozen different configurations of my 2x500GB SATA drives over the past few days involving switching between ACHI/IDE/RAID in my bios (This was after trying different things to solve my problems with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx) ; After each attempt I’ve reset the bios option, booted into a live CD, deleting partitions and [...]

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My Experience with Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

Updates(26/3/10): Thought I’d give the liveCD another go (this time using the dailyx64 image and using unetbootin), thinking it must be something simple; so during boot i just kept pressing escape, before the splash screen came up. This got me around the splash screen issue and it seems as if everything is fine. Also, I [...]

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Chmod on lots of files

My lil-NAS has plenty of space but is maddeningly underpowered. I came across a permissions issue where, depending on how the files in question got there, they would not be accessible to my windows boxes because they were owned by root (I have no doubt that its my fault!) So, first attempt was nice and [...]

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Installing and Configuring NS-3 on a Ubuntu System

NS-3 Appears to have a staggeringly steep learning curve so I hope these posts help out someone else (or me, when i forget all this in a month).

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Line Parsing Reminder (Duplicate removal)

So, say you have a long list of instruction (like multiple apt-get install lines) and you want to eliminate common words?

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GSOC or Having a go at Network Simulator

I had been looking at this years Google Summer Of Code google group and saw the list of  organisations that are getting involved. While i was alooking at it, I knew i didn’t want to even consider the big boys (I’m looking at you, Debian, Drupal, KDE, Apache, X.Org, etc), they’re too big to get [...]

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So what can you do with 32 Million Passwords…

My partial analysis into the passwords uncovered by the RockYou! breach.

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Any Port in a Storm

While working on an IDS Solution for a client, I came across Untangle, and I loved it so much that I pulled out an old box and loaded it up as my office firewall. One thing that is lacking, from my perspective (at least in the ‘free’ edition) is the firewall interface; Untangle uses an [...]

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Ubuntu / Windows Sharing a Dropbox folder on NTFS

Take one Dual-Boot laptop, with three partitions: /dev/sda1:Windows File System /dev/sda2:Linux File System /dev/sda3:Data Partition I already had Dropbox installed on the Windows side and didn’t want to have things duplicated on the linux side, problem is Ubuntu currently does not mount internal drives automatically on boot, so every time I fired up Ubuntu, I [...]

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