I picked up a few of Seagate Backup Plus 4tb drives at Walmart for an incredible price the other day. My plan is to replace the 2tb drives in my fileserver so I needed to remove the case. I first did some testing to make sure it wasn’t DOA before I started to take it… Read more »
Category: Servers
Rainmeter Google Traffic Estimation Skin
For anyone who has wondered how to have a meter on your desktop to estimate time in traffic to a set destination, its actually very easy. I have created a demo on how to do this in the attached ZIP file. You need to fill in the configuration with a google maps API key as… Read more »
SSL Resources I Find Helpful
I haven’t posted in awhile so I thought I would share some great SSL resources I have been using lately on a few of my projects. The first is SSL labs.  This service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server on the public Internet.  I have used it to verify my… Read more »
How to Add/Remove Additional Users to OpenVPN
To continue on from the previous tutorial on setting up OpenVPN on Ubuntu we will now see what is required to add and remove users on our server. Adding Users A lot of the steps are the same as creating the initial installation so it should look pretty familiar.  Lets assume our new client is called… Read more »
How to Setup OpenVPN on Ubuntu to Bypass Restrictive Firewalls
Background Since I will be travelling to China next week I thought now would be a good time to setup a VPN that at least had some chance of working through the GFW. After doing some research I found there are a few possible solutions but the one I settled on was using OpenVPN with… Read more »