There are quite a few online companies that offer to monitor your website and alert you when it becomes inaccessible from different places around the globe. They send you email and SMS messages along with reporting features. And there are a few good ones that offer this service in a limited function for free.

This is the simplest way I know to get samba up and running. This isn’t the most secure, best, smartest, etc. It’s just for testing and getting up and running as quickly as possible.

When you try to connect to a remote virtual machine host server and get the Virtual Machine Manager Connection Failure window shown below, the problem should be one of only two things. Either libvirtd really isn’t running and you need to start it, or you don’t have openssh-askpass installed.

Bonding multiple interfaces together is kind of a pain. After trial and error, I got trunking working between Debian Squeeze and a switch with LACP support.

I was very disappointed because my time was very limited that night. I couldn’t watch it later, my only free time was at that very hour. However, I found out later it was not a connection problem on my end. Netflix was completely inaccessible to everyone in my area. And then this morning, I found this in my inbox.

Did you know there’s a 237 mile point-to-point WiFi link in Venezuela that achieves 3 Mbps throughput? They used Linksys WRT54G wireless routers, one on each end. Both are running Linux-based firmware.

ooking to sniff your VoIP traffic? ccording to the sourceforge site, UCSniff is a VoIP & IP Video Security Assessment tool that integrates existing open source software into several useful features, allowing VoIP and IP Video owners and security professionals to rapidly test for the threat of unauthorized VoIP and Video Eavesdropping.

Linode is cheaper than many of the other big names in VPS and they offer plenty of storage and bandwidth too. Monitoring their status page for a few days/weeks should give you a good idea of the kind of downtime you’ll be looking at.

Instead of killing the process in order to run dhclient to get a new lease, just release it. See? No need to kill it. Now you can ask for another lease.

10 tips, each summarized in a sentence or two. Speed up your WAN, Build a lab, know your apps, virtualization pitfalls, speed up backups, and more.