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This is a page of locally contributed HOWTO's. Loosely based on questions found on the clug-tech mailing list.

Contents

General

Every day Tips

Colour on the command line

Networking

The Basics

How do connect to my LAN with Linux?

Wireless Roaming (or how do I easily and automatically connect to all my common hotspots, passwords and all)

Roaming between wireless and wired (or how do I just plug into my LAN and automatically use the faster link, instead of WiFi)

Sharing an Internet Connection

GPRS Internet over Bluetooth

Creating a wireless Node from a linux box

How do I share my drives like I did in Windows?

Defending Against Brute Force SSH Attacks

Talking text-based protocols (i.e. HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, etc)

OpenVPN setup

Dynamic DNS using wget

Firewall your Debian/Ubuntu host

Filesystems

How do I clone my disks with Linux?

How do I convert a filesystem from ext2 to ext3?

How do I create a swap file after installation?

RAID-1 in a hurry with grub and mdadm

How do I monitor my Hard Disks for errors?

Passwords

How do I reset my root password?

Servers

LDAP

Samba

Lighttpd


Security

Iptables

Maintenance

How do I keep my computer time synced?

How do I keep an eye on my computer's logs without reading them?

Multimedia

Ripping DVDs with Mencoder

DVD Compatibility

Compiling Transcode from CVS

Making DVD/SVCD/VCD's under Linux

Hardware

BIOS Flashing under Linux

Installing Linux on a ThinkPad -may be recatorgorized

Distribution specific

Mail

Mail Tips

Automatic winmail.dat decoding (the curse of MS-TNEF)

Debian

How do I install a .deb file I downloaded without compromising dependencies?

How do I compile my own kernel into a deb?

How do I create a deb from scratch