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AVG Firewall Blocks VPN

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:35:42 GMT

AVG 9 doesn't have that option instead you have to
1.double click avg to get the main window open
2. go to the tools menu and select Advanced Settings
3.Expand the web shied tree so you can see web protection and select that
4.in the exclude host/ip/domain box add domain or ip of the host
5. hit apply
6. re-enable the firewall

AVG Firewall Blocks VPN

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:38:52 GMT

If someone can give me a reasonable explanation as to why you would block outgoing vpn connections please....do tell

I mean disabling incoming VPN makes sense to block access to your network but the client seams reasonably harmless....oh well here's how you fix it.

The following is taken from the AVG website.

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When using some other VPN solution, the rules to be allowed in AVG
Firewall are based on the type of VPN connection. There are four rules
in AVG Firewall related to VPN communication:

ESP protocol
GRE protocol
L2TP VPN
PPTP VPN

In order to allow the VPN connection you are using, please proceed as follows:

Open AVG -> menu Tools -> Firewall settings.
Expand Profiles -> -> System services.
Allow rules GRE protocol and PPTP VPN (select each rule and in the System rule details select Allow for all).
Save the Firewall settings and check whether it is possible to connect to the VPN server.
In case the connection is blocked, Block rules GRE protocol and PPTP VPN, and Allow for all rules ESP protocol and L2TP VPN.
Save the Firewall settings and check whether it is possible to connect to the VPN server.

Directx 9

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:40:21 GMT

Use winetricks.sh from the wine thread to download and install dx9

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sh winetricks.sh directx9

if you are looking for info as to repairing dll overrides because you had to reset them then download the attached script and run it with the following command

these scripts are only temporary. As soon as I have the bash scripts ready for the other games this will be automated on execution.

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 wine regedit startdx9.reg

Eve

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:36:47 GMT

first install eve like normal

Second run:

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wine regedit stopdx9.reg

This will reset the wine DLL Overrides if you installed Directx 9

next simply place eve_start.sh on your desktop make it executable (properties > Permissions > allow)

Double Click and eve should work....if not run winecfg go to your dll overrides and remove them ALL

As a side not EVE requires d3dx9_36.dll make sure it's in your windows/system32 folder so you do need DX9 installed. the DX9 install usually breaks eve this is why we have to disable all dll overrides and only use d3dx9_36

if you want to play another game that requires Directx9 refer to the DX9 Thread

Wine

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:50:33 GMT

The patched source I'm working on is here. It Will be updated periodically. Some bash scripts still need to be uploaded. They will alter wine configuration on load of games and reset back to normal on exit. This will make certain games will run more smoothly and the altered settings will not break other games.

http://mantar.ca/uploads/attachments/wine-patched.tar.bz2

LAST UPDATED:Sept 18 2009

Game Scripts to come

Wine

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:49:01 GMT

Currently playing around with a modified source of 1.1.27. The current list of games I could get working is
Hawx
Ghost Recon Advanced warfighter 2
Fallout 3
Eve Online
Assassin's Creed

Follow the same steps as any other wine installations

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./configure --prefix=/usr

make depend && make

sudo make install

You have to love the google community (providers of winedep and winetricks)
Only run winedep if your running 64bit linux as it installs 32bit compat libs

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sudo sh winedep.sh

install directx9 after you install wine

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sh winetricks directx9

As Usual Feel Free to post any question and comments here

Linux Hardware Raid Way too easy

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:09:49 GMT

as far as it goes all you need to do is type

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 sudo mkdir /media/raid

sudo dmraid -ay

mount -t ntfs /dev/mapper/(hardware node that ends in 1) /media/raid

this post will be revised when I fix the initrd to automatically mount on boot

Operating Systems Polls

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:14:36 GMT

I think we're all missing the point here.. M$ is still M$.. Go grab a copy of Linux and see what a real kernel looks like.

People don't run Windows because they want to. They run it because they don't know about other options, or because they don't have the tech savvy to apply other options. I tried a copy of Windows 7 RC1, and it's a hell of a lot better than Vista. But it's a long way from being a good OS... It's simply better thought out, and is, at least so far, easier to regain control of. (Turning off UAC and other options). I would run it on my parents computers, my girlfriend's computer, my brother's computer.. etc.. It looks nice, it's retarded easy to use for the web surfers, and it's more stable than vista is. Not to mention, that in testing on a system i had previously run with Vista, it had a much smaller memory footprint and better cpu handling. Unfortunately there was a video driver issue from intel, which caused crashes during gaming.. That was where I drew the line. As for my personal machine, I have Windows 2003 Server. Because it was around, works great on my hardware, and I can't be arsed to dick around with Linux atm when all I want to do is play games.

Windows 7

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:37:29 GMT

From personal experience with The Windows 7 Release Candidate 1... i'm not gunna bother with it. I had plenty of issues getting hardware to even recognize with it, and to end all that, even more trouble getting stable drivers. I'd rather run a stable os.. perhaps linux will be my friend again?

Password-less SSH in 3 Steps

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:26:58 GMT

Step 1: Create public and private keys using ssh-key-gen on localhost

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mantar@localhost$ ssh-keygen 

Generating public/private rsa key pair.

Enter file in which to save the key (/home/mantar/.ssh/id_rsa):[Enter key]

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [Press enter key]

Enter same passphrase again: [Pess enter key]

Your identification has been saved in /home/mantar/.ssh/id_rsa.

Your public key has been saved in /home/mantar/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

The key fingerprint is:

 33:b3:fe:af:95:95:18:11:31:d5:de:96:2f:f2:35:f9 mantar@localhost

Step 2: Copy the public key to remote-host using ssh-copy-id

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mantar@localhost$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remote-host

mantar@remote-host�s password:

Now try logging into the machine, with �ssh �remote-host��, and check in:

.ssh/authorized_keys

to make sure we haven�t added extra keys that you weren�t expecting.
Note: ssh-copy-id appends the keys to the remote-host�s .ssh/authorized_key.

Step 3: Login to remote-host without entering the password

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mantar@localhost$ ssh remote-host

Last login: Sun Nov 16 17:22:33 2008 from 192.168.1.2

The above 3 simple steps should get the job done in most cases.

Step 4: Automatically use a user

Using your favourite editor, add the lines below to ~/.ssh/config

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Host remote-alias

  HostName fully-qualified-remote-name-or-ip

  User mantar

Now all you need to do to login is

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mantar@localhost$ ssh remote-alias