notetoself.net » ubuntu http://notetoself.net john dill's glob Sat, 01 May 2010 17:39:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 USB Bootable Linux + Dropbox FTW http://notetoself.net/2009/03/24/usb-bootable-linux-dropbox-ftw/ http://notetoself.net/2009/03/24/usb-bootable-linux-dropbox-ftw/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:09:22 +0000 John Dill http://notetoself.net/?p=648 At work, we have shiny new laptops. Yeah! …. except that they’re locked down and audited. Lame. Even if I carry my laptop with me and use it off-hours, all my surfing and installations are still restricted and subject to company policy and review. Bummer.
Pico Drive
Using the instructions at pendrivelinux.com, I quickly set up a persistent Ubuntu installation. It lives on my 8gig pico drive and just uses the laptop resources to run without writing anything to the laptop harddrive. It found all the drivers and was online and usable immediately after booting. It even has built-in drivers for my new Wacom tablet that works perfectly with GIMP. The default LiveCD setup is not secure, so I disabled the default no-login user and created my own account and added remote login and a few other customizations like auto-mounting to my home file server via SSH. Now, I can just put this tiny USB drive into any PC and boot into my own interface.

I went a step further to protect my browsing security and set up Squid proxy using my home Ubuntu server so that all my web traffic will be directly between my machines as far as any local firewall can tell. Using that, I can access anything that my personal server can access and do so without being restricted by local network blacklisting.

My latest addition to this setup was to use the Dropbox service to give me direct, local access to all my recent or frequently used files AND give me a persistent Firefox profile across all my machines (PC, Mac, and Ubuntu). That part is pretty cool. This synchronizes my plugins, cookies, passwords and sessions. I close Firefox at home, then I open it to the same tabs at work, preserving session logins.

Aight, I should either be doing homework or doing something about my geek addiction.

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]]> http://notetoself.net/2009/03/24/usb-bootable-linux-dropbox-ftw/feed/ 4 use your ubuntu machine as an apple server that supports Time Machine http://notetoself.net/2008/11/08/use-your-ubuntu-machine-as-an-apple-server-that-supports-time-machine/ http://notetoself.net/2008/11/08/use-your-ubuntu-machine-as-an-apple-server-that-supports-time-machine/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:45:46 +0000 dillweed http://notetoself.net/2008/11/08/use-your-ubuntu-machine-as-an-apple-server-that-supports-time-machine/ I don’t have a Mac server. 
I wanted to use Mac’s Time Machine to backup my laptop without buying Time Capsule or manually connecting an external drive every time. 
I have an extra PC that is running Ubuntu as my file server. 

… ::searches Google:: …

oh hai, this lets me do backups automatically.  woop! 

http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-volume/

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]]> http://notetoself.net/2008/11/08/use-your-ubuntu-machine-as-an-apple-server-that-supports-time-machine/feed/ 0 ubuntu 8 is really really good… http://notetoself.net/2008/04/15/ubuntu-8-is-really-really-good/ http://notetoself.net/2008/04/15/ubuntu-8-is-really-really-good/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:11:28 +0000 admin http://notetoself.net/2008/04/15/ubuntu-8-is-really-really-good/ ubuntu 8 is really really good. get it through wubi if you run windows.

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