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I was having a problem where when I went  from AC power to battery, the wireless would disconnect, and would not reconnect until I rebooted. Looks like there is some problem with power management when going to battery more.

I overrode the script by doing

touch /etc/pm/power.d/wireless

and now I can go from AC to battery without losing my wireless connection. Not getting any of the power savings that was supposed to happen, but I do not feel like looking into it any more than that.

So, I just finished a 20 minute discussion with my 8 year old son explaining the following concepts

• OO - Object Orientated Design
• TDD - Test Driven Design
• Emergent Design
• Code Reuse

I  used an analogy of a tool box and a set of construction equipment to state my case. What was crazy is I am pretty sure that he totaly  grasped the concepts, and might be able to put them into practice if asked.The geek foo is strong in that one!

Been fighting with freeradius, here are the notes to get it working in Debian
 
In this order
Debian freeradius does not have tls support (which you need)
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-478804.html
http://vuksan.com/linux/dot1x/802-1x-LDAP.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/8021X-HOWTO/#confradius
 
So, I have been wanting to do this for almost three years, and I finally got around to getting it working. Pretty cool actually! I guess the pure geek is showing (because I had no real reason to do it, except for the challenge)
 

[EDIT]
It turns out there is a much better way to achiece what I was trying to do (go figure, I was trying to do things the hard way),  libpam-ccreds: see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PamCcredsHowto
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I have been messing around all weekend (on and off) trying to get something to wor with LDAP. I thought I was getting pretty close, and then come to find out what I wanted to do, I had to wsitch to the "new" config. Pretty much, the documentaiton sucks, and here is the best I could find.
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/serverguide/C/openldap-server.html

[EDIT] These instructions may not work any more, you should really go to http://linux-vserver.org and finhost to do it from there
Had some problems getting a Ubuntu guest going on a Gentoo VServer host today, here are the tricks to get it working:
export ARCH=i386
vserver vubuntu build --force -m debootstrap /
--hostname vubuntu.dameaneys --netdev eth0 --interface 192.168.0.2/24 /
--context 1342 -- -d gutsy -m http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
Mostly a reminder for myself in the future.

So, I woke up this morning, and the house was around 52 degrees. Considering that it was -12 when I woke up yeasterday, I was concerned about the heat. I went down and checked the furnace right away, and sure enough while it was running, it would not light the burners (no fire). I have never worked on a furnace before, and really was not sure what to do. I found the manuals, got me volt meter and started going through the startup sequence. By 7:00 AM I had pin pointed it to a bad ignitor.

So, after fighting several problems with ebuilds blocking on my Gentoo VServers, I decided to move them over to Debian.

I am in the process of rebuilding things, and I think a post is going to be due about proper backup procedures.