Like all Debian based distro's it's very easy to boot the installer through PXE. However with Linux Mint this is not the case? Why? I don't know yet but since the installer of Linux Mint is just a live CD using casper we can boot the whole live system with a little help from NFS through PXE

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So the new LTS from Ubuntu has been released. Time to upgrade my laptop as well. But I'm lazy bastard and I don't feel like downloading an iso nor do I have a CD player. So this is an easy hint to start the Ubuntu/Debian net installer from grub.

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Ubuntu is getting a bit on my nerves. Time to test Debian testing!

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Today I finally found some time to tighten security on an internal LDAP setup only to find my usual procedure doesn't work. Apparently OpenLDAP has GnuTLS support since 2.4 and ofcourse Debian uses this. So here's a quick guide for setting up LDAPS with GnuTLS.

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Debian's initial root filesystem (initrd) is a minimal environment basically responsible for finding your root filesystem on some device in your computer. In this article I'm unwinding what it's composed of and how it is generated so I can use the same mechanisms to place a complete Debian (Emdebian) environment in the initial filesystem removing the need to find the root filesystem device.

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This is a simple guide to setting up a honeypot. A honeypot is a device that captures all traffic. It's usuable for example when you need to quarantaine people on a network or if you have a network without internet and you need to redirect users to a specific website no matter which site they try to visit.

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IMHO the documentation on the Debian Wiki is a bit outdated. Here's my way to configuring LDAP client authentication on Debian (Wheezy)

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Just a quick guide into installing Emdebian using multistrap. This currently based on Debian Squeeze. Wheezy is not supported yet.

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Since about a year I'm investigating more appliance/embedded-like systems. Through all this research I stumbled upon debirf. This simple tool let's you create a full debian os in an initial ramdisk. This is especially handy for fully customised systems aimed at performance and not using harddrives or flash disks.

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