I am Samiux and living in Hong Kong. Exactly, I am not working in Information Technology (IT) field. Computing is just for fun although I have some out-dated computing qualifications. I am writing this blog for recording my success and fail in playing Open Source Operating System and softwares as well as applications and solutions.
My first BASIC program was written in Apple IIe around 1976 by self-study. My first PC was a IBM PC-XT clone and it is equipped with NEC Z80 CPU (clone of Intel 8088). It was purchased in 1985 and it was very expensive at that time. I had learnt several programming languages, such as Pascal, COBOL, C and Clipper in DOS environment. My first Microsoft Windows was Windows 95.
I came to know Linux in around 1996 and My first Linux distribution was Red Hat Linux 6.2. I had tried some other Linux distributions too, they are Turbo Linux, Mandrake and SuSE. However, I selected Red Hat Linux as there were many books talking about her. I further sticked to Fedora Core. However, the update server of Fedora Core was very slow at that time and I could not stand for it.
Luckily, I met Ubuntu on August, 2006. It was Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. I installed it on all my desktops and laptops. Ubuntu is very great and user-friendly. I love it very much since then.
Since the propular of Open Source softwares, I have learned PHP, MySQL, Python as well as computing security in my spare time. I had built several LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) systems for my friends and a Scout troop and they were hosting Content Management System (CMS).
Recently (June, 2009), I bought two servers for router with Unified Threat Management system (UTM) and virtualization. Virtualization is very hot nowaday. IT people call it as Green Computing too.
For fun and contribution to Linux community, I make a Lambda Linux Live DVD which is remastered from Ubuntu. It is in Traditional Chinese by default and you can download it free at http://www.debian-inside.com.
Cheers,
Samiux
June 19, 2009
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My configuration of my 2 servers :
(1) Router with UTM function
- Intel Q9550 Quad-core CPU
- Intel server board
- Intel chassis case
- 8GB DDR2 RAM
- 2 x 160GB hard drive
- Adaptec 2405 hardware RAID card
- the server is running RAID 1
(2) Virtualization server
- Intel Xeon E5420 Quad-core CPU x 2
- Intel server board
- Intel chassis case
- 16GB ECC DDR2 RAM
- 6 x 1TB hard drive
- Adaptec 5805 hardware RAID card
- the server is running RAID 5EE
My configuration of my desktop :
- AMD Athlon 64×2 4200+ CPU
- 2theMax mother board
- 8GB DDR2 RAM
- 2 x 320GB hard drive
- 3Ware 9650SE hardware RAID card
- the desktop is running RAID 0
- Lambda Linux AMD64
My configuration of my laptop :
- Lenovo ThinkPad X61
- Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 CPU
- 4GB DDR2 RAM
- 60GB A-Data SSD
- Lambda Linux AMD64
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Furthermore, I also have about 10 more desktops and laptops with different configurations. They are left behind for testing purpose only.
## Last updated on 2009-June-22
Ten tips for new Ubuntu users
http://www.linux.com/articles/54945
Hi, I am a newbee to the ubuntu OS. While I have no problem setting the OS, but I have difficultiy setting up internet connection on ubuntu 8.04. I am using Netvigator with Arescom NetDSL 1200 broadband modem. Can you give some advice?Thanks.
cwc436,
If you can read Traditional Chinese, there is a tutorial there.
http://wiki.ubuntu.hk/w/Connect_Internet_with_PPPoEConf
If you set it as start up automatically, the other part of the tutorial is useless. Just up to “sudo pppoeconf”.
Or, you may consider to add a router behind your modem that requires no setting of pppoeconf.
Samiux
Samiux,
Thanks for your advice. I have followed the instruction in the link you suggested. There is no “inet addr” in my system. I then followed the step described in the link on “applying DHCP to hook onto internet”. These steps are useless in my case. Are there any other steps I can try before embarking on the router alternative?
Am I right to guess that the Arescom modem does not support the ubuntu OS? Is Debian easier to hooking up to Netvigator?
cwc436
cwc436,
Suppose your Ubuntu box is connected to the modem directly and the connection type is PPPoE, such as Netvigator in Hong Kong.
You will never get the “inet addr” when you issue the command “ifconfig eth0″. You are also never get the result when you issue “dhclient eth0″. I think there is an error in the tutorial.
You just need to issue the command “sudo pppoeconf” at the terminal. Follows the diagrams in the tutorial. Make sure you select to activate at the boot time. And up to the instruction of all the diagrams. The other instructions are useless.
Good luck.
Samiux
Hi,
Your server tutorials are really good if you are intered to submit them to ubuntugeek.com site it would help more ubuntu community users.
Please contact them at admin@ubuntugeek.com
Thanks for your nice server tutorials
Thanks