"Unlike some other OS's, Linux almost never has to reboot… or so I was told when I first started learning about it. To illustrate the point, my mentor introduced me to an app that he ran on all of his servers called uptimed." more>>
"Are you responsible for one or more Windows computers? If yes then the odds are really good that you have had to deal with cleaning viruses and malware. Did you know F-Secure offers a free Rescue CD built on Knoppix for just this purpose? Let's take a look at how easy the F-Secure Rescue CD is to use."
Just wanted to announce that I have another article published on LinuxJournal.com. The teaser is below:
"Ever wanted to instantly have Drupal, Moodle, OTRS, MySQL, WordPress, Zimbra, Bugzilla, phpBB or a slew of other open source software packages up an running in a hassle-free manner to try out or available for rapid deployment? TurnKey Linuxgives you just that."
Just wanted to post a little something to let everyone know that I am now writing for LinuxJournal.com. My first article is a How To entitled Leave the CDs in the Office. Below is a copy of its teaser:
"There are few things more aggravating than going out to a coworker's office to work on their computer and finding that to fix it you need a CD that is sitting in your office. If you have ever experienced that, or would simply like to no longer need to tote that book of CDs with you every day, then this article is for you."
So, you want to run OpenVPN or VMware on Windows 7 or Vista? Get ready to use Regedit. To make these work as they should you need to go to hklm:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} and look in the entries (there are about 17 of them) below it. Look for a driverdesc that has vmware or TAP-Win in it. In those that do, right click and create a new DWord. Make its name *NdisDeviceType with a value of 1. Beyond that, the normal setup instructions work great. I used the OpenVPN Quickstart on Windows 7 x64 Enterprise with no problem. One note though, if it is your server like mine is then be sure to change %ProgramFiles% in the server config file to the actual path since OpenVPN runs under Program Files (x86).
The reason you have to make these edits is in the way Windows 7 and Vista handle networking and is all explained at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb201634.aspx OpenVPN's special interface and VMnet1 & VMnet8 are not actually connecting to a traditional network and therein lies the problem.
Welcome! As the site name suggests, I am a techie (geek). This is my place to post on anything that is related to technology. Sometimes this will be software, sometimes it will be hardware, and sometimes it will just be random things I like. Oh, and there are bound to be references to World of Warcraft now and then :)
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