Your Second Chance to get at least one Gotchi!

It’s kind of weird to see a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder with an L sign on the highway in the morning.

Based on the fact, that Ubuntu 9.04 was announced today, it is a good idea to explain how to upgrade every Ubuntu Version using the command line.

1. sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
2. verify /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
   to use LTS or Normal based on your preferences
3. sudo do-release-upgrade

After that, follow the messages on the screen to upgrade your system to the newest Ubuntu Version.

With the message “Error: Passwords do not match, please retype.” Cacti tried to make my life horrible today, but not with me.

If you are running Cacti 0.8.7b (which is the standard version located in the Ubuntu repositories) you will be prompted with this error after editing a host using Firefox 3. The error is based on an auto complete bug within the form. There are two solutions to avoid the problem (which worked for me):

1. Before saving all the settings you have to delete (if not in use) the value in the password field of the SNMPv3 settings and than switch back to your preferred method of fetching information.
2. Apply the patch which was provided by RichardBronosky in the Cacti Forum solving the problem.

The easiest way to apply this patch is to cd to your cacti directory and:
1. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Verify the validity of the URI like this:

Code:
curl -L http://forums.cacti.net/download.php?id=14681

2. If it looks like a safe patch, then apply it directly from that URI via curl:

Code:
curl -L http://forums.cacti.net/download.php?id=14681|patch -p1 -N

There is one very annoying limitation (ok perhaps more) if you are using Windows XP. The limitation that the MS Windows XPs format tool can only handle HDDs under 32 GB of disk space. Other OS’s like Linux or Mac OS X do not have this limitations but what to do if you want to format a disk bigger than 32GB using Windows XP?

Grab one of the most useful 3rd party applications – called FAT 32 Formatter.

Thanks Emmi!

This picture was made on our weekend trip to the Kurpark Oberlaa.

Seen at Dubai Airport Terminal 1 in front of the security check

I am so happy! After some clicks and crossing my fingers it is done. I updated my Linksys WRT-54G v2 with the most amazing firmware ever made

Actually I am using DD-WRT since years on my router, but now I made an upgrade to a VPN enabled version of DD-WRT which allows me to configure OpenVPN and PPTP to create a private tunnel to my home network.

My first try was PPTP because of the easy way configuring the router and my PC and it works like a charm. Now all my traffic is going directly through the PPTP tunnel to my network at home and afterwards gets routed into the internet. After this, I don’t have any problems with the proxy “provided” by etisalat to reach specific sites any more

Thanks all the people who invented these techniques and protocols!