The computer to which I had been synchronizing my Palm Tungsten E died a while ago. I explored the two options for connecting to my Ubuntu system using a USB cable. The fastest is to use a direct USB connection. However, I wanted to ensure I could synchronize over a network connection. I also configured… Continue reading Connecting a Palm via USB
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Monitoring with Munin
Munin is a system monitoring program designed to capture and graph performance statistics with minimal configuration. It is significantly easier to configure than MRTG and has a wide variety of plugins. The Ubuntu (Debian) installer will setup a reasonable configuration on installation. It requires one server, and a client daemon on all monitored servers including… Continue reading Monitoring with Munin
Installing WordPress on Ubuntu
WordPress is available as a packaged application for Ubuntu. However it requires a bit of post installation configuration. The installation will install the apache2 multi-user server if no server is installed. I modified the installation to run over top of an existing site. The default installation creates directories under /var/www, which I move to /srv.
OpenWRT and Ubuntu dnmasq setup
Now I have replaced my old firewall with OpenWRT, I needed to enhance the configuration of dnsmasq to support the network. The old Ubunutu based firewall was already running dnsmasq, as does the DNS server on the LAN. I run a mixed network with wired and wireless clients on separate address ranges. DHCP services are… Continue reading OpenWRT and Ubuntu dnmasq setup