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My quick and dirty walk through of how to get utorrent installed and configured on Openmediavault, a Debian based network attached storage solution (NAS). I used this package. wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24928836/utserver/deb/utorrent-server_3.0-25053_i386.deb dpkg -i utorrent*.deb point your browser to: http://omv-ip:8080/gui The default is: 8080 The user name is admin with no password. Additionally you will have to add utserver to the machice startup: update-rc.d utserver defaults Reference utorrent.com forums

VOIP is an area that I have a strong interest. Asterisk and Freeswitch are two of my favorite pieces of software and I am always looking for ways in which they can save me some money. I have not been able to get my hands on low power hardware which has always been a deal breaker for me. With the cost of electricity being what it is in Jamaica leaving your gear on 24×7 is just not an option. ...

Who needs CDROM drives? Can I tell you that burning a DVD/CD is the devil’s work! I always prefer using a USB Flash or External USB drive. To prepare a USB disk for Windows 7 you’ll need to make it bootable by using DISKPART. Format the drive by executing the following commands one by one . Make sure you replace Disk 1 with proper Disk number . select disk 1 clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=NTFS QUICK assign exit Copy contents of Windows install media to USB device. References ...

CVMTV’s Olympic coverage has been less than stellar and that is putting it in a very nice way. I’ve spent the first two days of the Olympics trying to find out what was possible in terms of alternate video sources to watch events, both live and recorded. I tend to like the coverage of BBC. They usually have excellent commentators who are very knowledgeable on the athletes and their respective events, unlike what passes for commentary on NBC (US). BBC iPlayer was my first choice to watch the opening ceremony. To access iPlayer you have to reside in the UK or be connecting from a UK IP address through the use of a VPN. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a technology used to access a network, securely over a public network such as the internet. It is usually used to access work or home networks remotely. ...

This was harder to accomplish that I thought it would be. I am accustomed to doing this by changing the runlevel in /etc/init.d/inittab. With upstart this has become very foggy for me. Thanks to this Link, I was able to get this done. Step1:Just edit /etc/default/grub with your favourite editor: sudo gedit /etc/default/grub find out this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” change it to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash text” Step2: Update grub and done! ...

The machine on 192.168.1.153 is my server running Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS. I installed the tftp-hpa package: aptitude install tftpd-hpa Now the files were in place so I needed to tell inetd.conf to find the files in that folder, so edited /etc/inetd.conf. Source

Configure DD WRT The following settings needs to be a dded under: Services->Additional DNSMasq Options Code: dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,,192.168.230.1 Configure tftp In this case we are using tftp-hpa Code: apt-get install tftpd-hpa mcedit /etc/default/tftpd-hpa TFTP_USERNAME="tftp" TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp" TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69" TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure" References Source

The way to follow Eventually replace the 10.0.0.x by your addresses Go to Administration -> Diagnostics and click on run Enter ifconfig vlan1:1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0<br></br> and click on Save Startup Enter /usr/sbin/iptables -I POSTROUTING -t nat -o vlan1 -d 10.0.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE<br></br> and click on Save Firewall Source

Debugging PPPoE Problems PPPoE is used mainly for handling connections via Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL). Remember: The WRT54G / WRT54GS doesn’t have an integrated DSL modem, so you need an external one. Cabling After connecting the WRT54G(S) router to the DSL modem on the port labeled Internet make sure that the Internet LED at the front panel is lit. If not, check cabling. Reboot your DSL modem after you connected the router to it. ...

From the time I installed my first wireless router I have been wondering if there was a way to have the wireless router manage the public IP address. I wanted the ADSL modem to function as a modem only. I have seen this setup on a few occasions when a static IP address is configure but I never had a clear understanding of the process. My wireless router has all these wonderful features and yet I would have to let my router function as an access point. The other option was to connect the router to the WAN port on the Router, from the ADSL modem. I then would connect my computers to the LAN ports on the router. I hate the latter setup as I would have to double NAT and this prevented me from connecting to a VPN at work. Also I had to spend too much time setting up port forwards for BIT TORRENT on both devices. ...