T'Krin's Realm

Upgraded and surprisingly, no issues.  w00t

Sun assumes the X2100s are going to be run headless, and therefore, configures it output via the serial console. If you plugin a monitor into the video port on this nice little pizza box, you’ll end up w/ a blinking underscore. So, some safe advice… make sure you have access to a PC or laptop w/ a serial port and the appropriate cable. What makes this worse is that no where does it mention this in the supplied documentation. Doh!

I’ve not been willing, as with many of my peers, to install solutions from the big three AV vendors. Read on and come to your own conclusion.

Why popular antivirus apps do not work

It was surprisingly easy to get the Airport card working. First download and install the firmware files in a deb package format from:

http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/dists/dapper-cafuego/bcm43xx/

It puts firmware files in /lib/firmware.

Next create a little script such as:

#!/bin/bash

interface=eth0 #interface of your wireless card

#Turning off wired network...

ifconfig eth1 down

modprobe bcm43xx

#Starting up wireless network...

ifconfig $interface up

iwconfig $interface essid MY_ESSID

iwconfig $interface mode managed

iwconfig $interface key off

dhclient $interface

You can also use the Network Settings tools to manage the wireless connection. A thread at Ubunt Forums, http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=142727 was a good source of information.

We get a call from a new client, which is always nice. He proceeds to describe that the company he hired to create a new website for his company hosed his web server, SBS 2003 running IIS, which is sad by itself. I’m told that the company develops on either Linux or OSX and Apache and don’t seem to know IIS at all. They end up causing all these problems and not only does the client’s web site stop working, so does the clients intranet site. Sheesh. These guys even put the directory containing the website in the desktop directory of a user account rather than C:\inetpub. Sheesh! I’m no Windows fan, but it’s sad to see people messing up things like that. While it makes my company money, which I won’t complain about, it’s sad that we will now have to smooth things over.