Vision

I didn't post anything yesterday as I was bussy seting up a wireless network at my house and getting all the computers (Windows Vista, Ubuntu, Windows XP) all working happily on the network. There are two XP machines on the network but only one of them is wireless (its my mum's laptop). I secured the network with WEP (was going to use WPA but I decided to go with 128 bit WEP encryption as it was easier to make "just work" but I am thinking of possibly using WPA PSK.) I noticed however that I could restrict access to a few MAC addresses making very hard to just get into the network it you happened to be outside in a large van kitted out with all the equipment to break into my network. (Yes I know I am paranoid).

While working on it I happened to notice that I could set up port forwarding and and I had a working XP Professional box so I decided to try my hand at getting IIS working. I got it working and started editing the source from gedit in Ubuntu. (I had the source on a share so I could access it over the network).

I have a DNS service with no-ip.com for free. I got a site working (just as a bit of a test bed) at monthonlinux.no-ip.org. Don't expect it to work all the time, or at all for that matter as I am trying out ASP.NET which I know seems a bit of a contradiction that I running "Month On Linux" on a Windows box with a Microsoft technology but as I said its a bit of a test bed just to get my hand into site administration.


My Software design teacher made me aware of a distro of Linux which is called "LAMP". If I could get that working on one of my boxes I might consider running an evangelical site for Linux.

The aim of the site (and organisation) would be to get individuals and organisations to try out Linux for a month and provide support for the organisations and individuals making the switch. If I were to set this up I would make my primary recomended distribution Ubuntu just because of its ease of use for people who havn't otherise been working in the field of Linux.