05 Oct 08 APNIC Box – Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 3 – Installing Debian, Prebuilt Disk Image

Follow on from 01 Oct 08 APNIC Box – Linux on a Mikrotik 532a, Part 2

The device runs a 2.4.30 kernel on a debian woody (mipsel) environment. If anyone can contribute anything for 2.6.x and debian etch, that would be great.

In this part, I’m going to provide a download link to a prebuilt image which you can write directly onto your own CF card with dd or similar tool. I’m also going to provide a step by step to installing debian yourself without my prebuilt disk image.

Prebuilt image is here:

The prebuilt image also contains a number of scripts and tools that I’ll comment on and come to in later parts.

Now installation instructions:
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23 Sep 08 Thoughts on “Google denies disassembling Vista code for Chrome”

Inspiration: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39492220,00.htm

Is disassembling software wrong? Well, I’d suggest that it isn’t. You may have agreed to a plethora of licencing terms when you downloaded, bought or installed a piece of software, but where does it say that the software running on your PC shall remain a mystery and you should not explore it?

Each time you run the software, your platform will essentially take it apart and run it for you. If your platform is expected to understand the software in machine readable format, then why shouldn’t you?
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Tags: compile, decompile, disassemble, legal, moral, reverse engineer

15 Sep 08 Quick Linux and Windows OpenVPN HOWTO and tutorial, including VPN routing

OpenVPN is a popular Windows/Linux VPN Server/Client pair. I think there’s a separate GUI available for it if you’re so minded. This howto will cover command line usage only.

I’ll provide example configuration based on a Linux server and a Windows client, however the same applies pretty easily if you wanted to mix and match.

On debian, apt-get install openvpn. On any other linux distro, use your own package manager or alternatively download from source and compile.
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