I upgraded my Lenovo Thinkpad X300 to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex today. My original installation notes for Hardy are here.

After the upgrade, sound was working without compiling an ALSA snapshot by hand. Also, 3G connections worked straight out of the NetworkManager applet, which is very nice. But WiFi …

I was not able to compile PHP 5.2.6 with IBM HTTP Server 6.1 as a module, so I compiled it as a CGI binary instead. Here's how to do it.

Ths SSH protocol supports tunneling arbitrary ports from your local host to a remote network that is only reachable through a remote gateway machine. The typical situation is that you have a, say, web server in a network which is only accessible from inside the network. If you have an …

Here's how to make dynamic IPv6 routing work between a Cisco IOS router and an OpenWRT Linux Quagga router. I couldn't find a similar howto anywhere, so I decided to write my own.

I am using OpenWRT Kamikaze 7.09 (kernel 2.4) on an ASUS WL-500gP wireless router. Any …

This document describes how to set up a Sendmail e-mail gateway or relay which will be able to process incoming mail and route it to different mail servers based on domain information. The routing table is based on the Sendmail mailertable feature instead of the usual MX record based routing …

Network interfaces can be bonded to provide fault-tolerant operation. Here's how to do it in Ubuntu. I will assume the interfaces to be bonded are eth0 and eth1.

First, install the ifenslave package. The ifenslave tool will be used to actually bond the interfaces.

apt-get install ifenslave

Create file /etc …

Here's how to configure a Windows domain controller to act as an NTP client and server for your network. You may then sync all your hosts, Windows or other, to that server. To achieve this, configure one (or more) of your domain controllers to retrieve time from the atomic clocks …

Make a backup copy of your AD before you go any further.

Install your new server, and join it to the domain as a member server. Before you can run dcpromo on the new 2008 server, you must run adprep on your schema master, to prepare the Active Directory schema …

Here are two simple scripts written in Python to fetch information about users from Active Directory. The AD schema has been augmented with the Microsoft Services For Unix schema, which will allow to map Unix uids to Windows user accounts.

All you need to do is to fill in your …

First, create a user account for your Apache in the Active Directory. Let's assume the AD Kerberos realm is KOO.FI, and the user name we have created is "apache". Also create a computer account, let's call that "apachesrv".

Next, create two keytab files on the Windows server. One host …