Continuation

Finally after months I’ve created a vhost on hamerica for hosting Firma HRP website. It no longer shows my munin stats.

I’ve even started some consultations on what they wish to have there.

web, website

Found a quick howto to setup JMeter which will launch me in the world of properly tested web applications.

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I am about to change my E61 for something new. I am looking for something what will not be only new but will has more features as well.

So far I have found that :

Palm is thinking that Europe loves only Windows Mobile - I don’t! The two of the latest Treos are not showing in EU - these are 755p and Centro. HEY! I want one of these ( actually two! )

Nokia: E61i would be on my list but it does not feature A2DP what is stupid! E90 has all the features I desire, plus it has a [tab] key on internal keyboard! That is cool,  if you are going to use it for SSH like I have to.  Problem with E90 is price…. probably way over my limit will see when buying time will come.

Sony-Ericsson  has a new P1i which honestly is at the top of my list, it has all what I am looking for and a bonus - Jog-Dial which I alway wished to have in a handheld.

Others ? They are doing Windows Mobile only what makes it not for me.

Maybe you know some gear which has a querty keyboard, wifi/bluetooth(2), voip, 3G, no windows mobile?

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Loads of stuff, happens now.

I have setup an Asterisk installation on my server, it is still work in progress and so far, I love it! Why I didn’t checked it out earlier?

So far, I have a few SIP users, and a few PSTN gateways in different countries. Started by reading the free ebook available from Asterisk Website. Setup was really simple, had a few bumps, but day on day it gets more interesting, adding more automation, k3wl. This knowledge will be useful at work, where we are going to setup a proper PBX.

VPN, I have done an OpenVPN installation on my own private network, it works like a charm. Unfortunately at work I had to go with a solution more integrated into MS Windows. I really wanted to have IPSec/L2TP … but the complexity of server setup just killed it. When I was switching from IPSec/L2TP to PPTP it was soooo much easier and cleaner to get PPTP up and running.

I think that IPSec/L2TP will have to wait and eventually it will be rolled out. I really don’t want to use PPTP for full access to my networks. To be honest, when I came across OpenVPN first time, it also was too much for me and I left it and used SSH tunnels instead. So I think I have to mature with IPSec/L2TP and try to make it work later.

asterisk, ipsec, openvpn, pptp, voip, vpn, web

For very long time I have been refusing to create accounts on Web 2.0 community websites. I am considering this kind of stuff childish and hyped for teenagers. I can create and host my content on my own.

Unfortunately W2.0 community sites are huge and not only teenagers started to use them. I had to pass. My first was orkut, were I have created an account just to stay in contact with a blacky_ . A few year later, in the beginning of 2007 when I was considering moving jobs, I was invited to LinkedIn a W2.0CW for professionals. Yesterday … FaceBook .

I hope that is it, I really refuse to have any connection to myspace.

One thing is certain, I will still use my MobyGeek site as a primary place to host my content.

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If you ever heard about monitoring systems it was usually some expensive closed source software or the open source package. I have little experience with the first type.

For some thoughts about the second type, read more

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I have been, recently, working with OpenSSL as a mini CA.

As it is a great product, does everything with PKI what you need. Even after a while it is making sense how to use it. No problems.

One issue, which held me a while was lack of clear information, instructions or interface to perform the most basic tasks regarding certification, delivered with the package. Non … you are dumped in to deep water… it may often push off some people as they will have no clue what they are doing, even using online instructions. Do you know some nice GUI for openssl ?

So after scary swim in deep waters, I am quite casual with all that PKI, ssl/tls, certificates etc. stuff. It is like a completely new world… world which you trust, where you can easily manage that trust… it is beautiful! Suddenly setting up encrypted and authenticated channels is just a flick of your own CA. Love it.

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Lets say you have a dozen of servers. Lets say you connect to them very often to do some work. You have a very nice and descriptive domain for all your servers. Domain is organized nicely organized.

Now you wish to connect to one of the servers. You are typing

ssh mylovelyserver.somesubdomain.mylovelylongdomain.tld

How much do you like to type such a long address ?

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So, now when I have my connectivity sorted out, I will start my maybe never ending network setup.

I need NS server ( Done ), Mail server ( pending porting ), Radius server ( pending ) and that is what I can think of now.

NS was easy, as it required little work and I already have done that ,on my previous server, so copy and paths change sorted it.

Mail server also should be no problem as I will get it moved from old server.

Radius … this is a nice piece , I have no experience with it and it is mandatory for me to get my WiFi working. As far as I have got is Access Point is talking to the server, clients talk to it as well but … it refuses everything. I will need to catch-up on Radius.

education, geek, hacking, linux, radius, web

Recently I bought a Nokia E61 with contract from T-Mobile. Contract is a specific one, gives you unlimited(except you can’t use it with a laptop or to make VoIP calls ) access to the Internet from your phone. I love this bundle, really nice device ( I don’t even miss touch screen ) and total freedom of the Internet access.

I own a few mobile gadgets , Casio BE300, Palm Tungsten C, Nokia 770, Abacus Palm Wrist PDA and non of them is not as flexible and didn’t satisfy my needs to the extend which e61 does.

Finally I have access to my email wherever I am, I have always up to date currency conversion tool, weather forecasts, news… all the things that were promised with previous devices are now finally working!  The other thing is software selection, much real life than 770, but not as good as Palm, still enough.

E61 does not sport touch screen …. as I all my previous gadgets are touchable … I really don’t miss it. Interface design is brilliant! E61 also made me realize that I was really missing thumb qwerty keyboard, TC and E61 both sport it.

Time to pickup some Symbian knowledge … as I know almost nothing about that OS … I’ve notice that it has IPv6 support so I might even love it

gadget, geek, internet access, ipv6, news, voip, web