Advance Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) or APM ( Advance Power Management ) support for Ubuntu 10.04 was not installed by default after server installation.  I needed this so that during power outage I can just press the power button to automatically shutdown the PC. sudo aptitude install acpi acpi-support apm This will install the [...]

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82579 based Ethernet network cards are only supported in Kernel 2.6.36 and up, thus Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will not have out-of-the-box support for the network card. I needed this to work since I’ll be using this as my server and 11.04 is not LTS, I have no choice. To fix this with the motherboard I have from [...]

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Here’s a way to block users from using a different DNS address other than your own local DNS server to bypass OpenDNS filtering. I’m currently using Shorewall in an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server setup as my Firewall, Gateway and DNS, and works nicely. This should also work in 10.04 or other Ubuntu install that has [...]

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