My Home Network Diagram

I updated my server load-out post with a diagram of my current network layout. Complete with system specifications. Check it out here.

Completion of Symbolic Links to Directories

By default Bash will not append a trailing forward-slash to sybolic links pointed at directories. This is because a symlink is seen as a file instead of a directory. Adding the following line to your ~/.inputrc will add this missing forward-slash and make your terminal use easier.

set mark-symlinked-directories on

Command Line RSS Interface

Everyday we follow the lives (nearly in real-time) of our family, friends, news, and favorite blogs using some type of ticker. Whether it be on the “wall” of a social networking site, on our phones, or on the television in our living rooms, we thrive on instantaneous notification of events we can’t be present to experience first hand.

So why not my server? It happens to be one of my closest friends, can’t I be informed of current events occurring in it’s life as well? With the help of an RSS feed interfaced by the command line, I now can.

Multiple Monitor Setup Using Both nVidia and ATI Video Cards In Linux

I recently received the ‘go ahead’ to install Ubuntu on my work computer. After locating alternatives to my frequently used development applications (most of them already supported under Linux) and testing my productivity under VirtualBox, I downloaded Intrepid, fired up Wubi and took my lunch break.

Once returned, I noticed two of my three monitors were in stand-by mode. I wasn’t too surprised. Ubuntu automatically configured my dual monitor setup at home, but I suspected hiccups with three.

My Ubuntu 8.04 Server

It’s no beast, but it’s more important than my left leg.  With a 2.2Ghz x86_64 AMD LE-1600 processor, 2Gb RAM, and just under 3Tb of combined disk capacity all on a 3Mb /s connection…my home server isn’t breaking any speed records (actually I’m considering some upgrades as I write this).  But you can find me logged in to it more often than WoW.

Torify Torrentflux-b4rt

In my quest to anonymize all traffic leaving my home network, I ran into the problem of torifying my bittorrent transfers. Routing the actual transfers through Tor would be far too slow so I will be showing you how to anonymize only the tracker requests. But remember, pirating is bad mmmkay.

Tab complete ESSIDs in Bash

Do you ever find yourself having to transfer AP information between terminals while using Aircrack?  Thankfully the new version supports BSSID resolution from ESSID, but what when a user names their AP “mY$up3RuNh@ckAbl3AcC3SSp01nT“?  Sure, that makes for a great password but it’s not going to stop anyone from cracking your 64-bit WEP encryption.  What it will do, is cause me frustration while typing and hassle while copying/pasting.

Customize Your Ubuntu MOTD

There was once a time when I was enthralled with Linux; Building Gentoo from scratch, customizing every possible configuration for optimization,  compiling binaries and such. I’d spent hours perfecting my ANSI MOTD using carefully placed escape sequences. It was beautiful.

But the novelty wears, and as I fell to the dark side of precompiled binaries, my motivation toward fancy MOTDs waned as well. Here I will show you a simple method of presenting colorful ANSI logos at login in Ubuntu.