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Comment on HOWTO: IPCop-OpenVPN by Magnus Wedberg

Magnus Wedberg — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:30:08 +0000

everyone has the same problem :-) For OpenVPN that seems to stop at the router, add

iptables -A INPUT -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i tap+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i tap+ -j ACCEPT

to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or rc.firewall.local, or another start script of choice.

Comment on HOWTO: IPCop-OpenVPN by Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:45:29 +0000

They glossed over the advanced server options button on the openvpn page. On this page is options to push down information to the VPN client such as domain and dns information.

When I first set this up, I thought I couldn’t get out to the internet. After troubleshooting, I saw that I could get pages via IP but not by name. I added IPCOPs internal address to this page and restarted the server, and my internet access is back :-)

Comment on How to install Python eggs by Perberos

Perberos — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:40:53 +0000

http://web.archive.org/web/20071001201743rn_1/northwe.st/blog/2006/02/how-to-install-a-python-egg-fi

Comment on HOWTO: IPCop-OpenVPN by Mirko

Mirko — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:39:44 +0000

Hi all,
I have the same problem that Dan had on 17 March 2008 at 12:47 pm.
From the vpn client I can reach ipcop but not any lan host.
For example I can reach the server that has the address 10.7.0.1 but not an internal host with address push 192.168.0.1.
The GREEN address of ipcop is 192.168.0.253/255.255.255.0.
I tried to add “route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0″ at /var/ipcop/ovpn/server.conf but I have the same problem.
Did somebody solved it?

Comment on HOWTO: Secure Firefox and IM with PuTTY by SSH Tunneling through web filters | s-anand.net

SSH Tunneling through web filters | s-anand.net — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:46:57 +0000

[...] You can go further and use any software (such as Skype) if you install FreeCap. More details are in this article on Secure Firefox and IM with Putty. [...]

Comment on HOWTO: Secure Firefox and IM with PuTTY by Shawn

Shawn — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:36:15 +0000

Cool article – with censorship and blocking these days, it would be nice if everyone could do this.

I use a cheap commercial service that just sprang up called Lockfox (www.lockfox.com). Basically provides ssh-tunnel’d firefox browser for the non-technical user. For $5/month it works for me!

Comment on Another dissatisfied Dell customer by john

john — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:50:23 +0000

Mike’s story does not contradict the other’s at all. If your computer works right and you like then there is not a problem. The issue is when you don’t like the computer or it breaks. Which does happen sometimes, no matter how good Dell’s description and quality control are. Then you enter the Hell.
Mike, I’d like to hear back from you after you try to return a computer to Dell.

My experience:
email on wednesday to start the return.
Get a response on saturday informing me I need to call M-F from 9-7.
Then I call monday, talk to 3 people who transfer me around for 30 minutes and eventually disconnect me.

Now I’m on hold for 15 minutes.

This is Hell. And it could be so straight forward. I am biased towards Dell since I live in Austin and have been a fan. I cannot recommend them any longer. I’m jealous of the great support my brother is getting on his HP laptop. I’m trying them next time.

Comment on Debian on an Ultra 5 by Blah Blah Black Sheep

Blah Blah Black Sheep — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:04:46 +0000

I just bought 2 Ultra 5’s from a guy for $10 (LOL!) I’ve been banging my head against a wall trying to get them to boot from CD just to figure out he wired the ide cables weird (solved that), then found out ubuntu’s sparc distro doesn’t seem to support ultra 5’s.

I was JUST about to try Gentoo on the U5 until I stumbled across your post. I figured Gentoo would get compiled and optimized to work great (and maybe since it’s 2009 it would be easier to do). However, I’ve never used Gentoo, and I really don’t like the prospect of messing with CLI to much to get something up and running. Your post has helped me make up my mind to go with Debian. Maybe I’ll try Gentoo later. I’m just trying to get this U5 up and running as a BOINC cruncher for the moment.

Thanks for the comments about the hdd error warnings. It’ll keep me from freaking out if/when I see them. (crosses-fingers)

Comment on Calculate a hailstone sequence by Animated Collatz sequence using Gosu | Thinkhole Labs

Animated Collatz sequence using Gosu | Thinkhole Labs — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:52:29 +0000

[...] my obsession with the Collatz conjecture, I took some of my Ruby code from the other day and mixed in some Gosu 2D [...]

Comment on Apple iMac flickering display by Antonio

Antonio — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:26:48 +0000

Argh!!
I have the same problem!!
A lot of people have the same problem!