Not that I have to reboot my MacBook more often than every third day, but when that reboot happens on the train or in a meeting that darn startup sound is still really annoying.
I finally found StartupSound.prefPane from Arcana Research. This product is free AND removes the noise. Brilliant.
I read this howto on how to get Ubuntu Linux up and running on Apple MacBooks. Since I was reinstalling the macbook anyway and had all the data properly backed up I decided that I might just as well give it a go. So I did.
Following the Howto I quickly had the disks partitioned and the Ubuntu Edgy Live CD running. Only thing not working was getting the correct resolution, the AirPort and automatical mount of my USB stick. But, the installation went smoothly, and I could boot up…
Read more to see how it worked!
The Endian Firewall Community edition is a quite nice appliance based on IPCop, which are again based on Smoothwall.
The setup is fairly simple, and the reason I use Endian over IPCo
p is that you may actually choose to reconfigure your interfaces in Endian after the initial setup.
You may also make external backups, which is a great feature.
And it has an OpenVPN server!
The list goes on..
” Alvar under blåna
eig ringane tri.
Sju fekk dvergdrottane i salar av stein.
Menn som er saka til dauden
fekk ni.
Men drotten for myrkret ein einaste ein
i landet Mordor der skuggane rår.
Ein ring skal styra deim
ein ring skal finna deim.
Ein ring tvinga deim
og i myrker binda deim
i landet Mordor der skuggane rår. ”
Omsetjing av Eilev Groven Myhren.
Summary: “Raise your hand: who here has ever booth-squatted for hours in a Panera, nursing that bottomless cup of coffee, using the restaurant’s free WiFi connection the entire time? It’s a common enough scenario that cafe and coffee shop owners, long used to offering free WiFi as a way to get customers in the door, are fighting back.”
This is actually pretty interesting reading. However, personally I use the local WiFi-enabled café as a way to get out of the house a little and enjoy some more professionally made coffe than the one I myself make. I am not really interested in making contact with total strangers IRL either, so bringing my laptop for some IRC chatting is just fine by me. If they stopped offering WiFi I would just stop going there, easy as that.
