Category: Linux
I finally took a crack at getting everything to work with the iBook on ubuntu. Well sort of. I have problems with sound, and with CD-AutoMount. The CD-Automount is related to a known bug in 9.10. Hopefully 10.4 will have this fixed. I can still mount from command line, and that is good enough for me. I don’t use this iBook for sound or media, so sound isn’t important to me either. Below is my list of requirements
My requirements
1 Functional Linux OS with GUI
2 Ethernet, and wifi with WPA
3 Power management including screen dimming and quick and reliable suspend and hibernation.
4 Ability to easily install applications with apt-get for computer network related tasks. This includes wire sniffers and network analyzers as well as functional web browsers (with flash and java) to help with researching problems.
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This bug is very Windows’ish in its annoyance. If for some reason the computer crashes or is improperly shutdown then the computer will hang at its grub menu selection
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Our goal was a Moodle server with SSL logins and using Active Directory authentication. We want students to not get hassled on their logins with the profile settings and we don’t want moodle to require (or use) email. We intend for staff to regulate their classrooms enrolment using a classroom key. This streamlined login will present the least headache for our staff and students. Besides, who wants to sit at a server terminal and type things manually?
What is moodle? Well, if you don’t know what moodle is, then this information isn’t going to be very handy.
quick command line wpa with wpa_supplicant. Some older devices (like my iBook) are not real supported using gui WPA connection methods. But I can usually get the command line going.
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I rescued this 800mhz iBook G3 from the recycle bin. It didn’t even have OSX installed, the battery was nearly shot, and the case was scarred, but it was functional. The 12 inch screen is pleasant to look at and the keyboard is condensed, but it is a full size. This iBook is somewhere between a netbook and a notebook. But with old MacOS is mostly worthless, and even MacOSX isn’t very functional for my needs as a Computer and Network Technician.
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cloning VMs and imaging ubuntu break the networking. This has something to do with the MAC address changing, and the OS thinks there is a new eth device.cloning VMs and imaging ubuntu break the networking.
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I run my VirtualBox VMs in headless mode. So a user need not be logged into they system for the VMs to run. I wanted my VMs to auto power on. Not only that, in the event that they were shut down, I wanted them to turn back on. A production server should have this sort of assurance.
My tar script ( work in progress) backs up my shares on my file server from /data/shares to /backup. both /data and /backup are separately mounted hard drives.
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This proxy is a Dell Optiplex 740 with 5 gigs of RAM and it has a 1TB drive mounted as /cache. I think that the hardware especially the size of the cache drive was a bit overkill. But I wanted to build something that could keep on caching for an entire school year.