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Archive for January, 2008

Previous Everquest fan? Played Vanguard yet?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes – by Brad Mcquaid who was “the” original mind behind Everquest. If you are an EQ retiree like me – I spent 6 years in EQ wishing the game was like it was pre-PoP. Well, here you go! Vanguard! Feels like EQ and looks better :) Most excellent game with tons of quests and fixes that plagued the original Everquest. Attached is a nice video below:

Check me out on Seradon – Arune/Bard lvl 50

Top 100 Network Security Tools

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Top 100 Network Security Tools by insecure.org here:
http://sectools.org/

Simple Home File Server (Based On Ubuntu) – HOWTO

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

This tutorial explains how to turn an old PC with additional hard disks into a simple home file server. The file server is intended for home use. The home file server is accessible by Windows and Linux computers in the home network.

The existing tutorials do not describe how to add additional disks or have a complex authorization or access procedure. Freenas (www.freenas.org) does have too many features for home users and more important it does not support the NTFS format.

This Home File Server can work with hard disks formatted in NTFS. So when you need or want to move the hard disk into a new computer, they are accessible by Windows and most Linux operating systems.

The server is built with Ubuntu Server 7.10 & Samba. Do not use Ubuntu Server 5.04 LTS because this version does not support the latest SATA Controllers (in an Pentium II or III you likely want to use a PCI SATA RAID controller to attach SATA hard disks).

I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Requirements
To install such a system you will need the following:

* the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon server CD, available here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/7.10/ubuntu-7.10-server-i386.iso
* a fast internet connection
* a PC with at least 2 hard disks, one for the Ubuntu operating system and one for data storage

The hard disks for data storage in the file server must be formatted in the NTFS format. You can use the Gparted live CD to do this job, download the iso from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828


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