Solution to vmnet1 down after suspend

I rarely shut down my laptop, but I use suspend all the time. Right now I have like 14 days of “uptime” which would have been a lot more if it wasn’t because I just installed Edgy :) I have VMware Server installed on it which I use for my work. I have all the machines on a host only network which works just great. But every time I suspend my laptop the virtually device vmnet1 seems to “go down” and I have to make a:

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Using PHP to connect to an Active Directory

I am looking into authenticating users on Solaris 9 via Active Directory (AD) as an LDAP server. To chop the problem into smaller problems I started to try and connect to the LDAP interface of the AD from a platform which I know. I’m no Solaris expert :)

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New infrastructure at home

Trough the last year I have been really wanting to do something to my home infrastructure :) I got wires running all over, and my little trusty server makes to much noice. I would like to hook up all my clients (2 workstations and a laptop) to a wireless network, maybe even my server, to get rid of all the wires cluttering my floor. I have been playing around with the thought of of trashing my current server totally, and find a new one wich is more home friendly (less power and noise). Even though webalizer tells me I have 1.5G traffic to emcken.dk each month, its not like I need a 2.0GHz processor and 1GB ram for it. I have searched the net for devices which could help me do what I want with a minimum of devices. Beneath I have gathered all I found out so far but first I want to sum up my list of my requirements. Here is what I want my home network and computers to do: * Linux server * Minimum noise * Minimum power consumption * Fair amount of disk space (minimum 60GB) * Apache / PHP / MySQL (for my website / blog) * Samba server (to share files to my Windows machines) * Wireless access * IP telephony * A firewall * Preferable Linux * With the possibility for QoS / traffic shaping to make IP phone work under heavy network load. In the future I might want the following: * Support for [Slimdevices][1] and their [slimserver][2] * Support for multimedia streaming server like MythTV and stuff * Have a running [Teamspeak][3] server [1]: http://slimdevices.com/ [2]: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServer [3]: http://www.teamspeak.org/ Read more...

More encryption in Ubuntu

For those who found my post about encryption of USB devices interesting yesterday… you might wanna keep an eye on this one which I stumbled upon it today. A feature request for the next Ubuntu release, Feisty Fawn:

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Encrypted USB drive in Ubuntu

Today I went to the Linuxforum BOF day where I attended a session about encrypting your personal files. This made me remember a post read some time ago (check out the screen cast). I guessed that this functionality would be in Ubuntu Edgy by now so I just went ahead and tried to make my USB pen drive encrypted.

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