pfSense – Block Spam at the Firewall with pfBlocker

Repost: http://skear.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Configure-pfBlocker-An-IP-Block-List-and-Country-Block-Package-for-pfSense

Backup Remote Linux Server with RSync

http://kb.liquidweb.com/using-rsync-to-transfer-and-synchronize-local-and-remote-systems/

Rsync is a powerful tool that facilitates the transfer and synchronization of data between both local and remote systems. The article in the link above make it real simple.

Online Network Admin Tools

http://online-domain-tools.com

Online Domain Tools is a set of free tools for everyday use. We have specialized tools for network administrators, webmasters, web application developers, domain owners as well as tools useful for all Internet users. If you want to have all your tools in one place ready to use anytime Online Domain Tools is the right choice for you. We are continuously improving our existing tools and we are also working on implementing new tools. Online Domain Tools offers and will offer using various tools for free. We plan to implement new features and tools, some of them may be paid, but the basic functionality will always be provided free of charge. You can watch news related to Online Domain Tools on the news page. The latest news are also displayed on the homepage. When a new feature or tool is implemented it will be mentioned there.

Pre-Build and Live CD Servers

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/

Turnkey Linux is a virtual appliance library that integrates and polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions. Each virtual appliance is optimized for ease of use and can be deployed in just a few minutes on bare metal, a virtual machine and in the cloud. We believe everything that can be easy, should be easy. Packaging a solution as a virtual appliance can be incredibly useful because it allows you to leverage guru integration skills to build ready to use systems (I.e., turn key solutions) that just work out of the box with little to no setup.

Create How-to Guides Easily

http://www.snapguide.com

Snapguide is a free iOS app and web service for those that want to create and share step-by-step “how to guides.” The service provides easy to understand instructions for a wide array of topics including cooking, gardening, crafts, repairs, do-it-yourself projects, fashion tips, entertaining and more.

Edit GRUB 2 Menus

GRUB Customizer, the program that lets you configure your boot menu (GRUB2 & Burg)

http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/09/grub-customizer-3-0-released-install-it-in-ubuntu-12-04/

Need More Bandwidth – Add and Bond a Second NIC

ubuntu – Actually this is for providing more bandwidth when using a machine as a server, such as with a clonezilla server.

Here are three articles to get you started.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBonding
http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Bonding_Multiple_NICs
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-setup-bond-or-team-network-cards-in-ubuntu-10-1010-04.html

Picture Slide Show – Free and Easy

http://www.photofilmstrip.org

PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. There are several output possibilities for VCD, SVCD, DVD up to FULL-HD. The effect of the slideshow is known as “Ken Burns”. Comments of the pictures are generated into a subtitle file. Furthermore an audio file can be specified to setup the background music for the slide show.

Basic Windows Setup

Lot’s of people ask me about what I recommend for a basic Windows setup. Here is my short list to get you started:

Mount Drives Automatically in ubuntu

Need to have your drives mount automatically when ubuntu starts try PySDM from the software center.

http://pysdm.sourceforge.net/

PySDM is a Storage Device Manager that allows full customization of hard disk mountpoints without manually access to fstab.
It also allows the creation of udev rules for dynamic configuration of storage devices