HOWTO : Lightening your browsing speed on a slow internet connection under Ubuntu 8.10

I am using my IBM ThinkPad T23 with Ubuntu 8.10 in my office. However, the signal of the wireless connection in my office is very weak. In addition to the weak power of the laptop, the browsing speed is very slow and nearly halt.
We can solve this problem by doing some hacking.
Step [...]

HOWTO : Avoid to drop to busybox in Ubuntu 8.10

Some systems, like mine (nForce 570 Ultra chipset with SATA hard drives), will drop to busybox when booting up Ubuntu 8.10 in some occasion. The reason is Ubuntu 8.10 do not have enough time to load the essential modules before mounting the root filesystem of a SATA hard drive. This may happen to [...]

HOWTO : Protect your data in Ubuntu 8.10

To protect your data in a directory is easy with Ubuntu 8.10.
Step 1 :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils
Step 2 :
ecryptfs-setup-private
Step 3 :
For the first question that asking for login passphrase, please enter your login password.
Step 4 :
For the second question that asking for mount passphrase, please let the system generate one for you and [...]

HOWTO : Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) with ZeroShell, EasyIDS and Guardian

Part A : Router – ZeroShell
To setup a Gigabit router, please follow the link below :
http://samiux.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/howto-home-made-wired-and-wireless-router-with-zeroshell/
Part B : IDS – EasyIDS
To setup a Intrusion Detection System (IDS), please follow the link below :
http://samiux.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/howto-intrusion-detection-system-made-easy/
Part C : IPS – Guardian
Step 0 :
ssh to EasyIDS.
ssh 192.168.0.200 -l root
Step 1 :
Go to http://www.chaotic.org/guardian/ to download Guardian. The current [...]