Random Ramblings

I bought an Asus U56E from Fry’s, which has an Intel i5-2410M CPU. The laptop has been very good, having excellent battery life and good performance. I replaced the internal optical drive with a drive caddy so that I could replace the internal drive with an SSD, but have an additional spinning drive

I used the easy-rsa script to generate some new server certs recently, and found that my strongswan install on OpenWRT could not load the RSA key. This despite the fact that the same key works fine in OpenVPN on the same server. The interesting thing is that when I use the build-key-pkcs12 script in

My issues with Strongswan in the OpenWRT trunk are now resolved. Strongswan 4.5.1-1 is available. Filed under: encryption, linux, OpenWRT Tagged: linux, OpenWrt, Router, Strongswan

I recently purchased a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router and installed OpenWRT on it. I used the trunk version, but found that StrongSwan4 did not allow me to pass traffic, despite an identical configuration to my working Trendnet router. I can successfully connect, but my log files show an error “unable

OpenVPN Setup IPSec Setup Final Notes and Tips I recently got a hand-me-down Trendnet TEW-652BRP router. The label on it indicates that it is version 1.1R. Doing a bit of research, it seems as if the one I have is actually identical to the TEW-632BRP, so I compiled OpenWRT for the TEW-632BRP, and it

I log into a Zimbra server for email. I may be logged in on the local network, from outside, over the Internet, or across a VPN. The hostname is always the same. I found that I would have to actually quit Firefox in order to log back into Zimbra if I initiated a session over [...]

Recently, my college friends and myself were discussing a recent article in Vibe magazine on the experiences of a flamboyantly gay man at Morehouse College, and the response of the school’s president. I shared the two articles with family and friends, and the inevitable question “what has happened t

Over at the online photography magazine, Photofocus, Scott Bourne warns photographers of the terms of service they may unwittingly agree to by posting a picture on Twitter. From the article: Ask a real lawyer (not some guy named Larry who plays one on your local camera club forum) what this means. I

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I have a dual boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. In order to secure the system, I have system encryption with Truecrypt and encrypted LVM in Ubuntu. I need to access my Windows files from within Ubuntu. After a bit of searching around the Internet, I pieced together this command line, whic