http://anupriti.blogspot.com/2012/03/installing-guest-additions-in-virtual.html

http://owncloud.org/

http://owncloud.org/features/

http://owncloud.org/sync-clients/

http://susestudio.com/a/TadMax/owncloud-in-a-box

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:OwnCloud

http://maketecheasier.com/install-and-configure-owncloud/2012/01/11

http://mashable.com/2008/07/24/synching-files-and-folders/

http://knightwise.com/the-knightcast-kc0059-building-your-own-owncloud/

http://pclinuxoshelp.com/index.php/Owncloud,_installation_and_setup

Moving ownCloud data store: http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20

CAINE… www.caine-live.net

Where to start? PING = Partimage Is Not Ghost.  Ok, I get it.

THE biggest hurdle to getting this to run? For some reason, I figured a machine that could get an IP address for the PXE process could get an IP address later on. Not true. Oh, and make sure you have ONE dhcp server on your network – this one! I didn’t make that mistake, but I see how you could. I actually set this up on Windows Virtual PC’s as a pilot for a customer, but I finally got it all working…

So, here’s how it seems to work – or at least close enough to get it working. PXE gets an IP address, then PXE downloads the OS over TFTP. Then it does something like a pseudo reboot and uses the initrd as part of the final “build” on the client computer.

Ok, so, if it can get an IP address to do the TFTP, why can’t {what I am calling} the final build?

Anyway, so what do you do about this? The answer is pretty simple. The file “default” that they ask you to make? Well, you hard code the IP address of both the client computer, the server (where you will store your images) the subnet mask, the default gateway, and, what the heck, you might as well hard code the user name and password there too!. I will post my ‘default’ file.

The second thing I did to get this to actually work? I downloaded their files and put them where I think they belong. Which wound up being 2 separate places. And then it didn’t seem to work. So, I downloaded the PING iso file, and copied all the files from there. So, some combination of files was missing, but now I seem to have them all.

Hint – I now get the PING logo, whereas before I didn’t.

Now let’s walk thru this. TFTPD32 settings – note, I did the ‘service’ install – watch which one you download!

Contents of the ‘default’ file (if you copy and paste, make sure you know what is on one line and what isn’t, and that you get it all!). And NO, I do NOT get a nice menu to pick from. But it does work.

DEFAULT default
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 300
DISPLAY boot.msg
LABEL default
KERNEL kernel
APPEND vga=normal devfs=nomount pxe ramdisk_size=33000 load_ramdisk=1 init=/linuxrc prompt_ramdisk=0 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw noapic nolapic lba combined_mode=libata ide0=noprobe nomce pci=nomsi irqpoll IP=192.168.1.222 Netmask=255.255.255.0 Gateway=192.168.1.201 Server=192.168.1.201 Share=images user=images passwd=images
LABEL backup
KERNEL kernel
APPEND vga=normal devfs=nomount pxe ramdisk_size=33000 load_ramdisk=1 init=/linuxrc prompt_ramdisk=0 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw noapic nolapic lba combined_mode=libata ide0=noprobe nomce pci=nomsi irqpoll IP=192.168.1.222 Netmask=255.255.255.0 Gateway=192.168.1.201 Server=192.168.1.201 Share=images user=images passwd=images
LABEL restore
KERNEL kernel
APPEND vga=normal devfs=nomount pxe ramdisk_size=33000 load_ramdisk=1 init=/linuxrc prompt_ramdisk=0 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw noapic nolapic lba combined_mode=libata ide0=noprobe nomce pci=nomsi irqpoll IP=192.168.1.222 Netmask=255.255.255.0 Gateway=192.168.1.201 Server=192.168.1.201 Share=images user=images passwd=images
LABEL dummy
KERNEL kernel

Notes:
Server is 192.168.1.201, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, the PXE “client” will be 192.168.1.222, the share is called images, as is the user name and password.

In following my “shotgun” approach, all this is duplicated under Create_New_Image.

Good luck!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming
http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes
http://www.hak5.org/episodes/episode-80

X11 over SSH part 2: Windows to Linux

As explained in Part 1, all you need do open GUI apps over SSH is an SSH client and an X11 server. If you’re on Windows this can be achieved with Xming and Putty. Darren demos using an XP VM.

That got me thinking… If I can find an X11 “client” for an iPad, then doesn’t that effectively mean that I can run all kinds of applications on the iPad… Yes, I know, technically they would be running on my ubuntu desktop, but they would “feel” like they were on the iPad, and that the iPad suddenly got “beefy”

http://www.starnet.com/ makes just that… However, to be blunt, I am a little disappointed with it. It seems like a replacement for vnc, meaning it gives you the whole desktop… I want to run just certain apps on the iPad. Maybe it’s not possible, but… for now… there are remote desktop applications that are cheaper for the iPad. Just a tad disappointed…

— update – I got an email from the company that they are coming out with a new version soon.
http://www.starnet.com/products/ilivex/

http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-restore-grub-2-after-reinstalling-windows-xpvistawin7

Much to my frustration, these directions (the link above) seem to think that you know what the heck you are doing. I can’t say I did/do, but let me try to remember what’s missing from them… Using their “method 2”

• After you’re running the live CD, start gparted. Select the partition you think your linux is on, and click on info or about or something like that. You want the UUID which will be on the screen. Copy it and paste into a blank file. You need this. While you are there, make a note of what file system it is. For instance, ext3, you need to know this as well.
• To mount the old linux install, you’ll do something like this  “mount -t {file system type from the step above, probably ext3} -u {paste the UUID you got from the step above} /media/oldsys”
• You can now access your old files by going to /media/oldsys
• Their line “grub-install –root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda” should be more like “grub-install –root-directory=/media/oldsys/ /dev/sda”
• Why /dev/sda? You are going to put the grub bootloader on the first hard drive, in the master boot record – so, it has to be /dev/sda
• When I rebooted to Windows 7, it told me it had to repair the system. I let it, and all is well, but that made me very nervous…

 This is just a note to myself about something that sounded interesting :  http://ubuntuguide.net/decorate-grub-2-boot-loader-using-burg

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1458&tag=nl.e101
knoppix
Trinity Rescue Kit
Avira AntiVir

http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube

“Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream. Minitube does not require the Flash Player.

Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to create a new TV-like experience.”

A more convienent way to tweak your ubuntu settings. I found out about it from OSGUI:
http://www.osgui.com/video/viewvideo/735/osgui-tech-show/how-to-make-ubuntu-better-with-ubuntu-tweak.html
And here’s a link to the program itself
http://ubuntu-tweak.com/