Ubuntu Linux: How to setup a VPN connection to a SonicWall router using Openswan and Pre-shared Keys (PSK) Pelago :: web design, web development blog ::
Background Pelago is a web design and development agency in Santa Barbara, California. Since our humble beginnings in August of 2000, we’ve seen the Internet landscape evolve exponentially in the last nine years. Our most current challenge as a creative and engineering agency is in embracing diversity in platforms and the inevitable shift towards the remote office. Our SonicWall router makes it easy enough to establish a VPN connection using Windows. The problem, as most Linux users out there already know, is that setting up a VPN connection in Ubuntu Linux is not very easy. Configuring the SonicWall Router Login to your SonicWall router admin and make the following adjustments to the VPN settings. Click on the VPN link and note the Unique Firewall Identifier for your SonicWall router. Installing Openswan If you are using Ubuntu, open a terminal window and type in:sudo apt-get install openswan The install will ask you a few questions about how you want to set it up. Configuring Openswan
30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows
Recently, I received a fresh new laptop from Dell. Upon receiving it, I did the traditional “installation of Windows from scratch” on it to remove a lot of the garbage that is preinstalled on Dells. Then I got really busy installing tons of great software that takes care of pretty much every software need I have. Not only was all of the software free, every piece of it was open source, which means that the code is peer-reviewed; no spyware here! What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages. Now, if only there were an open version of The Sims 2, I might go the whole way and switch to Linux… Thirty Free and Open Software Programs Worth Downloading 1. Replaces Internet Explorer If you haven’t switched to Firefox for your web browsing needs, do it now. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Replaces AIM, Windows Messenger, etc. 8. 9. 10. Dia
Switching to Linux - Grokdoc
From Grokdoc This page is meant to be a repository for requirements and tips for those thinking about switching to Linux. It should contain short descriptions and links to pages giving more details. Switching to Linux What should be considered when deciding whether to switch Email that started this page (insert responses below, not in this email!) Hi PJ, Having read Groklaw for a long time and seen the countless arguments for and how to switch to Linux, I would like to suggest a new site: GrokWindows2Linux (or something similar :-) ). Basically a site documenting how to convert to Linux from Windows. There are many sites that documents bits and pieces, or that documents how they converted to linux, or how to convert a single application, but there are, AFAIK, no single site that documents "all" in one place. Information I would like to see is on a site like this would be things like (in no particular order): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Additional consideration Reference cases
99 Performance Tips for WindowsXP
Beginners Guides: 99 Performance Tips for Windows XP From faster boot times, to speeding up your current hardware, PCSTATS has 99 Tips to make your computer run quicker, better, and more efficiently. - Version 2.2.0 Welcome to PCSTATS' massive Tech Tips and Tweaks Guide! This time around, our focus is on making your Windows computer perform better, and faster! Whether this means booting and shutting down quicker, achieving better 3D gaming performance, or just making your PC feel more 'snappy,' chances are there's a tip or two in here to help you speed your current PC up. PCSTATS will also cover the basics of overclocking the processor, memory and video card, so as not to miss out on this important area of extra performance potential.
The Blog Joint » Top 10 Open Source Programs
The Blog Joint.com list of the Top 10 open source programs. I guarantee that most of you used some of these programs in the past, and if you haven’t you probably will use it in the future and if you know any programming you can make it even better. Thanks to all those people working hard in the open source community. eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client. Audacity is a free cross platform digital audio editor. {*style:<b> 8. The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. Ogg is a patent-free, fully open multimedia bitstream container format designed for efficient streaming and file compression. PHP is an open-source, reflective programming language. Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client. Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a computer operating system.
