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Virtual Private Networks For The Wireless Environments configuration

ignition — Sun, 29 May 2011 16:48:31 +0000

ok we shall start from right to left , if you remember the setup diagram :p .

{3}linux server .

openswan.
man ipsec.conf

{2}wireless router.

acting as a wireless bridge .

{1}windows client XP/Vista/7.
basically close the ports , here’s a hint ….
http://www.filtre.com.ro/ignition-blog/temp_upload/closing_ports_on_windows_machines.txt .

you should also close some services that keeps open ports on any windows machine that runs in any wireless environment , stuff like IPSec service, Time Service , SSDP Service , TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper , Application Layer Gateway Service .
read the help of greenbow vpn client .

and yes you can access the internet without using the split tunneling “network concept” through the VPN tunnel with “opentext socks client” in v5 mode (which requires authentication) to socksify any application you need to run over your internet connection , even the ones that do not support proxy or socks connections .

for more try , play , learn , think and you will see .

—– configuration will be displayed sometime——-

( meanwhile i lost my laptop and some of the things that were running on it :d . )

Virtual Private Networks For The Wireless Environments preparation

ignition — Sun, 29 May 2011 16:16:31 +0000

borrrrrring oooh well, i had this idea since the summer of 2010
when some guys where sniffing my wireless connection and troubled my wireless router. sucks. and when the trouble goes on and on you have to solve it . a year passed since then .

advantages of the wireless technology : LESS WIRES
disadvantages : everything else (low bandwidth/ objects standing in the way of a wireless router affects the bandwith/unexpected disconnects for a key renegociation and many more different hacking techniques ). it just sucks . and the most is this >> or google for more and more.;)

ok . now . once upon a time after highschool there were some dudes talking about some things and a thing called VPN . this VPN thing was made for securing a connection between two hosts making it very very private using different encryption methods , some weaker , some stronger but believe me much much stronger than the ones offered by and wireless router , those so called WEP or WPA2 .

so , why not use it for an wireless environment ? oh yes indeed . to make it work you will spend some time and you will get quite nice results , but it’s like knitting a sweater by hand for days and not many of us have that time .

some theory the bulshit part , project infrastructure or however you want to call it.

there are 3 VPN technologies . PPTP / L2TP / IPSec . google for each . the best of all is an IPSec Tunnel . OK !!! .

also there are several VPN topologies . one is host to client , cisco names it “remote access vpn” , others name it a ” Roadwarrior VPN “. another one is host to host , or like cisco names it “site to site vpn” . if we add some bullshit about intranet vpn and extranet vpn then we can write books and publish it , we all know that it ’sells’ good ! .

i would really like to talk more about the vpn technology but my slang english does not permit me to do this , despite the time i have :p . to understand the vpn technology you should/must read the CCNP v5 part 2 “IPSec VPNs” (very well explained ) and Openswan book .

here is the Wireless VPN setup .

{1}pc client 1 —–\

{1}pc client 2 ——>———-{2}Wireless Router—————>{3}Openswan VPN Server .

{1}pc client 3 —–/

tools needed >>

hardware : computer-desktop-client{1}; any wireless router{2} available on market that can run openwrt ; computer acting as server{3} that runs any linux distribution .

software :

on Windows client – OpenText Socks client ( to socksify an application and use the internet connection :d ); webdrive (an intelligent stylish ftp client used for “file-sharing” > you will see later what is this about ;) ) ; greenbow Vpn Client ( the only vpn client around that works well , have impressive options like GINA mode and many more > trust me !)

on Linux server – fresh new compiled kernel ; openswan daemon/service ; ftp daemon ; socks server ; and whatever additional services you would like to run ….

now arm yourself with a lot of patience !!!

windows 7 virtualbox what i like and what i dislike

ignition — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:08:09 +0000

i like : the lovely extralarge animated smooth cursors ; widgets ; transparent windows ( that you can have with gnome or kde , too ;) )

i dislike : hard to find things if you are used to work under windows xp . there are too many questions , too many options to get somewhere , to do something and in my opinion it becomes troublesome . most of text from the menus is changed . we see ”display properties” changed to ”personalize” , “windows firewall” is now “firewall with advanced security” (generally speaking a firewall is a firewall and its rules decide if it’s advanced or not whatever ;) ) , “switch to classsic view” option in control panel is now “view by > category > large | small icons” , “my documents” changes into “libraries” … search for more and you will find . the rating system based on the computer’s “experience” comes from vista and i shall never understand its role until some M$ guy will explain it to me :( . ( just finished my rating and took a 1 , i read some help about computer’s base score and i can say this is total bull$@%#$ . it is like taking grades at school when the teacher does not agree with you ) .

if you are using wingate for the host os, you will get connected to internet in less than a second after setting the ip/subnet/gw address in windows 7 . use a shared folder with ” net use x: vboxsvrsharename ” for file transfer between machines . my windows 7 enterprise edition runs pretty cool in just 750 MB Ram :d . it is sad that after so many windows releases, microsoft still did not introduce a good free file packing tool in their operating system instead they worked hard for an online-updates service and anti”everything”:? applications that defend windows, one bought legally from GeCad. the only os that really impressed me everytime with each release was MacOS which inspired M$ a lot, everyone knows that .

my question is, did M$ come up with something new ? just stolen ideas. Active Directory is a copy of LDAP , Windows Powershell is a copy of Bash , Windows GUI is a “copy” of MacOS and Internet Explorer was a replica to Netscape .

{ cufon } fonts for the people . . . customized wordpress fonts

ignition — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:58:35 +0000

once upon a time back in ‘99 the first browsers 2 of them , netscape and internet explorer , had some kind of a customized font support , which worked better in IE (get the font locally and then use it on your tags ) . netscape is a forgotten project but IE didn’t make anything with it . now, i recently found something that is working almost perfect in most of the browsers less Internet Explorer :d .

cufón . its use is pretty simple but to implement it in wordpress takes some time especially if you want to use custom fonts for the #storycontent id that wraps around the text blogcontent.  above all, you must find "complete fonts"  for normal, bold and italic style, punctuation and symbols  support. nevertheless there are a lot of options that cufon has to offer to trick wordpress .

 it seems that in opera when you switch in fullscreen , this browser displayes the webpage in "fluid mode" . :(

anyway beautiful project by Simo Kinnunen , i never thought i would ever see something like this .

improved expandable < !--more--> post wordpress blog :)

ignition — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:45:35 +0000

at last!!! i managed to get it to work after learning how to use single and double quotes in php , trying to understand a javascript script and searching for the lines to edit the wordpress option .

i hate the wordpress option because it splits the post in two when it sees this tag and throws the second half to trash . google will index only the first half and this s*&^*(#$%^ because i need the page with full posts so i can bring visitors that search randomly word pairs ;) .

when wordpress publish, everything happens here “site.com/wp-includes/post-template.php”, and when it sees truncates the post then runs this

$output .= apply_filters( ‘the_content_more_link’, ‘ $more_link_text”, $more_link_text );

we change it into this :

$output .= apply_filters( ‘the_content_more_link’, ‘

’.$content[1].’

÷ expand to read more »’, $more_link_text );

as you can see half of your content is kept in the second element of the array $content :p . add a jquery framework to the <head>er of your wordpress blog . my wordpress transition plugin install it as default and treats the simple “#” href link weird ;) . that's why we need a

tag . but if you don't have this plugin installed you can use href :d .

many thanks to Karl Swedberg , his idea is brilliant .

google seo idea working ooops . . .

ignition — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:56:55 +0000

let’s say you have to do a site with 20-25 pages and each page has less than 1k text . tough one, what should we do ??? google will not index this page always, sometimes maybe will index it who knows ? here’s a hint .
use a single Tabbed page & send all the traffic to that page .

scripts and idea briefly :

var origWidth, origHeight;
if (document.layers) {
origWidth = window.innerWidth; origHeight = window.innerHeight;
window.onresize = function() { if (window.innerWidth != origWidth || window.innerHeight != origHeight) history.go(0); }

} var cur_lyr; // holds id of currently visible layer

function swapLayers(id) { if (cur_lyr) hideLayer(cur_lyr); showLayer(id); cur_lyr = id; }

function showLayer(id) { var lyr = getElemRefs(id); if (lyr && lyr.css) lyr.css.visibility = “visible”; }

function hideLayer(id) { var lyr = getElemRefs(id); if (lyr && lyr.css) lyr.css.visibility = “hidden”; }

function getElemRefs(id) { var el = (document.getElementById)? document.getElementById(id): (document.all)? document.all[id]: (document.layers)? document.layers[id]: null;
if (el) el.css = (el.style)? el.style: el; return el; }

then play with layers IDs swapLayers(‘Player_A’);showLayer(‘P_B’); return false; , use div classes, add in your body onload=”swapLayers(‘load_default_layer’);” and that’s all . OR you may use this wonderful solution “http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/tabber/” with CSS styling . you may get impressive results . ;)

one more thing . if you want quick 1st page 1st position google result to your “page” for several keywords you should buy a domain containing the keywords you want, to obtain a good position . buy a domain like keyword1.keyword2.keyword3.keyword4.com and redirect as parked_domain to “page” . you may also add subdirectories /keyword5/keyword7/~keyword10 . stylish ;) .

headphones sound music how to choose

ignition — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:08:31 +0000

one simple “best” way is to buy the most expensive pair of headphones not ‘earphones’, which has the impedance around ~50 Ohms !!! this type of headphones fits on any portable audio device (iPod, Any cell-phone,laptop soundcard ) and offers impressive sound-quality .

any headphone with a higher impedance needs a headphone amplifier and that means more money .

good headphones brands are Grado, Sennheiser , AKG . else you may buy the rest …….

pgp mail fun hidden headers Thunderbird & Enigmail

ignition — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:50:19 +0000

tools needed : gnupg / thundirbird / enigmail

remove these chars “Version: GnuPG v” VERSION ” (“PRINTABLE_OS_NAME “)” from gnupg-2.x.x\g10\armor.c and ./configure; make; make install

create your gnupg key > use –s2k-count 65011712 :d

create in thundirbird >preferences >advanced > empty String “general.useragent.override” .

configure your enigmail plugin (uncheck “add enigmail comment in signature”) and manage your pgp keys , then you should have a beautiful encrypted message with stealth headers.

virtualbox slackware 13.x virtual machine ping !!!

ignition — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:42:54 +0000

why ? because in VMWare 7, X doesn’t start i forgot the error . startx does not start :p . so i went to the free solution, Sun’s Virtualbox .

my setup is an old laptop running Windows Xp x64 , pppoe connection, firewall UP on all network interfaces :d . being a beginner i can tell you this is a nice piece of software, get rid of vmware . it’s free and works faster ;) . a full installation of slackware was quick, configuration easy and had no problems . now how to get a ping working from the virtualbox using “VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter” (no VirtualBox NAT or Bridged adapter which is a kind of a host-only-eth) . first of all, I always hated the NAT solution offered by any Windows OSes ( 2000,XP,Vista, and probably 7, too) . i’ve used a little routix , wingate and others (google a bit) but wingate it’s wonderful .it is the best of all server solutions because it has a lot of options that are working. installation of wingate is easy so we shall skip to the configuration of slackware so we can ping outside . i think someone else can make this easier, but hey i am not a PRO . sorry :( . this page helped me out configuring the slackware virtual machine and you should find enough details to understand what i did . here is one of the latest wingate .

now. we bridge the “Local Area Connection”(Xp) and “VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter” (VB) set an ip for this bridged network (192.168.5.7) then dial our pppoe connection . switch to slackware virtual-machine (run netconfig to waste some time), get tunctl *1, install it and

mkdir /dev/net ; mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 20

tunctl -t tap0 -u root ; brctl addbr br0

ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc

brctl addif br0 eth0

ifconfig br0 192.168.5.17 netmask 255.255.255.0

brctl addif br0 tap0 ; ifconfig tap0 up

route add default gw 192.168.5.7

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add these lines or some of them to rc.local or another startup file, two nameservers in your resolv.conf , ping www.imissyou.org !!!! and we are done . that would be all.

*1 if you don’t have any idea about how to have some files available on your virtualmachine without network-drivers or shared-folders here’s one . get free iso creator , make an iso file with the files you want on your virtualmachine then mount your new iso image machine>settings>storage>Add cd/dvd device>media manager>add iso file .

image changer wordpress blog

ignition — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:39:04 +0000

there are many ways to change your image-background , i found a lot of scripts that do a lot of things and their use is complicated . one simple way is to use custom file-names and variables . this works pretty well , use it in your “header.php” theme file :

$bg_image=rand(1, 180);
echo “ \n”
?>