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by Mike Levin on August 26, 2010
But is deboostrap there? Oops, no. Okay, then we have to expand our plans. I didn’t want to touch the default system drive at all, but without debootstrap, probably the best thing to do right now is to connect the network cable and restart the networking service. First, let’s do an ifconfig “before”: Funny thing [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 26, 2010
Okay, let’s log into this thing. We can either connect through a network connection, assuming you have a DHCP server on your network (and if you’re at home with a WiFi router, then you do) and figure out your IP, or you have to connect with the provided serial cable. If you choose the network [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 26, 2010
Well, here were are getting past the virtual part of our Linux indoctrination, and into hardware. And some kooky little hardware it is. There are tons of choices around, and x86 Intel loyalists will do everything within their power to convince you to get onto some ATOM-powered box at this point, but we’re going with [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 25, 2010
We’ve created a bare-bones virtual Linux pendrive that will boot with a double-click from a Mac or a PC without a install, and has only enough software on it to log in and administrate it remotely. Big deal, right? Well, this is all you really need to get started doing ANYTHING. It’s the foot in [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 24, 2010
I sort of lost my way that this part of the ShankServer security tutorial was all about OpenSSH. Let’s do some quick catching up. I will be re-installing OpenSSH, but I want to emphasize the point of a server’s open footprint of open ports for hackers to probe and profile. You can see the entire [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 24, 2010
Okay, first thing is to get the sudo program, which will also set up /etc/sudoers, the file that controls permissions. apt-get install sudo So let’s make our user: useradd inmate -d /home/inmate …and set its password: passwd inmate …and now we run visudo, a program that’s installed with sudo specifically to help ensure that the [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 24, 2010
Okay, it’s been a long time since I did updates at ShankServer.org, and the pressure is really on me now, since my 2 SheevaPlugs arrived from Globalscale last week–the main event at this site–real hardware–real… shank… servers! Forget these little virtual Linux keychain novelties. Who needs them, when you can have a Linux server running [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 24, 2010
I’m starting to see that life goes in phases, not characterized by age or rights of passage, but rather by the tools you use to get your jobs done. I guess it all started with personal computers starting to come on the scene as I was growing up. My first computer was a Coleco Adam, [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 24, 2010
I saw Despicable Me over the weekend with Rachel, intuitively knowing it was the type of movie that was made specifically for me. There could not have been a better match in life for me than this movie. It has all the elements of what I absolutely love and need in a movie, sharing that [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 19, 2010
I’m a few days from forty, living in New York, with my first kid in the way, and just discovering the culture that surrounds Paul Graham’s Y-Combinator HackerNews. I was a typical suburbanite with too little gumption to have clawed my way to entreprenurialism on my own, but just enough to do so with the [...]
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I am Mike Levin+, an Earned Media Optimizer, husband, daddy & Linux / Python hacker living on top of the hill on top of the island on top of the world. I put my stream-of-consciousness here in order to create greater commitment and consistency in pursuit of my goals.
