For the past year or so, I have been looking for a good laptop for my mobile pursuits. I have some pretty stringent requirements for my mobile platform, the most import of which is the ability to run 3D games. With linux as my primary OS, and many of the games I play being available […]
Ubuntu Apache LAMP Server Quick Howto – Part 1 – Apache Basics
Linux web application servers typically use the Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP stack. Linux being the OS, Apache the web server layer, Mysql provides the database, and PHP the dynamic HTML/Scripting language. Their is an amazing amount of LAMP based applications out there, so getting to know how to administer a LAMP server is a key skill set for […]
Been gone for awhile….
Hi – not long after I started this blog, I lost a dear friend. This loss has kept me from blogging for a couple of weeks. I had known him for 16 years, and our time together on this earth was very special, and things won’t be quite the same now. His name was Snoopy, […]
Client IPSEC VPNs with Linux and Juniper Netscreen
Today, as promised I am going to show everyone how to set up a client IPSEC VPN to a Juniper Netscreen FW/VPN appliance from a Linux machine. Juniper is a market leader in the Firewall and VPN space, and provides appliances from the Small office Home Office footprint all the way up to the largest […]
Network Emulation with Linux Netem
Back in the day, I used an open source program called NistNET to emulate a WAN for my company’s network test lab on a linux machine. I was able to solve a multitude of issues and test our applications in a WAN environment with this product. Unfortunately, NistNET is no longer maintained, and until recently […]
SSH Tunnelling (aka Poor Man’s VPN)
Tunnelling of TCP traffic can be performed from the ssh command on Linux or with Putty on Windows, and can be thought of as a poor man’s VPN. A VPN is a virtual private network, or a method of using a public network such as the internet to securely transmit data via an encrypted “tunnel”. […]
Boot Sector Management
As promised, tonight we explore boot sector management on X86 style hardware. Anyone who works with PC hardware long enough, and especially those using linux as primary or secondary OS in a dual boot configuration will find this information valuable. The system boot sector on x86 style hardware is crucial to being able to boot […]
Disk and Partition Imaging using dd
Linux provides an abundance of advanced command line tools to manage and modify just about anything on your system. Today we will explore the use of dd, the primary tool on linux for creating and restoring disk images, among other things. The dd (diskdump) on Linux can be used to backup an entire disk or […]
Hello, world!
Welcome to LinuxPowerUser.com! With this blog, I intend to publish my experiences using Linux as a desktop and server operating system. I have been using Linux since 1995 and around 2000 I completely replaced Windows with it as my primary personal computing environment. I use linux for personal productivity, gaming, multimedia, programming, and as a […]
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