The Redneck Geek Blog

Lessons Learned

The Redneck Geek — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:23:31 +0000

Lessons Learned
by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.

They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”

“It was great, Dad.”

“Did you see how poor people live?” the father asked.

“Oh yeah,” said the son.

“So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?” asked the father.

The son answered: “I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.

“We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.

“We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs.

“We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them.”

The boy’s father was speechless.

Then his son added, “Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are.”

New documentary film: “I want your money!”

The Redneck Geek — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:18:07 +0000

Just Five More Minutes

The Redneck Geek — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:01:30 +0000

Just Five More Minutes
by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown

While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.

“That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.

“He’s a fine looking boy” the man said. “That’s my daughter on the bike in the white dress.”

Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. “What do you say we go, Melissa?”

Melissa pleaded, “Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes.”

The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart’s content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. “Time to go now?”

Again Melissa pleaded, “Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes.”

The man smiled and said, “OK.”

“My, you certainly are a patient father,” the woman responded.

The man smiled and then said, “Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I’d give anything for just five more minutes with him. I’ve vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.

She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play.”

Life is all about making priorities, what are your priorities?

Give someone you love 5 more minutes of your time today!

Trees that Wood

The Redneck Geek — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:11:34 +0000

Trees That Wood
by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown

Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods. They were discussing their hopes and dreams when the first tree said, “Someday I hope to be a treasure chest. I could be filled with gold, silver and precious gems. I could be decorated with intricate carving and everyone would see the beauty.”

Then the second tree said, “Someday I will be a mighty ship. I will take kings and queens across the waters and sail to the corners of the world. Everyone will feel safe in me because of the strength of my hull.”

Finally the third tree said, “I want to grow to be the tallest and straightest tree in the forest. People will see me on top of the hill and look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and God and how close to them I am reaching. I will be the greatest tree of all time and people will always remember me.”

After a few years of praying that their dreams would come true, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees. When one came to the first tree he said, “This looks like a strong tree, I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter” … and he began cutting it down. The tree was happy, because he knew that the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest.

At the second tree a woodsman said, “This looks like a strong tree, I should be able to sell it to the shipyard.” The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a mighty ship.

When the woodsmen came upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if they cut him down his dreams would not come true. One of the woodsmen said, “I don’t need anything special from my tree so I’ll take this one”, and he cut it down.

When the first tree arrived at the carpenters, he was made into a feed box for animals. He was then placed in a barn and filled with hay. This was not at all what he had prayed for.

The second tree was cut and made into a small fishing boat. His dreams of being a mighty ship and carrying kings had come to an end.

The third tree was cut into large pieces and left alone in the dark. The years went by, and the trees forgot about their dreams.

Then one day, a man and woman came to the barn. She gave birth and they placed the baby in the hay in the feed box that was made from the first tree. The man wished that he could have made a crib for the baby, but this manger would have to do. The tree could feel the importance of this event and knew that it had held the greatest treasure of all time.

Years later, a group of men got in the fishing boat made from the second tree. One of them was tired and went to sleep. While they were out on the water, a great storm arose and the tree didn’t think it was strong enough to keep the men safe. The men woke the sleeping man, and he stood and said “Peace” and the storm stopped. At this time, the tree knew that it had carried the King of Kings in its boat.

Finally, someone came and got the third tree. It was carried through the streets as the people mocked the man who was carrying it. When they came to a stop, the man was nailed to the tree and raised in the air to die at the top of a hill. When Sunday came, the tree came to realize that it was strong enough to stand at the top of the hill and be as close to God as was possible, because Jesus had been crucified on it.

The moral of this story is that when things don’t seem to be going your way, always know that God has a plan for you. If you place your trust in Him, He will give you great gifts. Each of the trees got what they wanted, just not in the way they had imagined. We don’t always know what God’s plans are for us. We just know that His ways are not our ways, but His ways are always best.

Mount Linux NFS Drive Share under Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista Enterprise

The Redneck Geek — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:08:08 +0000

Windows 2000 and XP Installation:

Download an install Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5
Click the Start button, point to Programs, and then click Windows Services for UNIX

Windows Vista Enterprise Installation:

Control Panel –> Programs and Features –> Turn Windows features on or off
Under “Services for NFS” select both “Administrative Tools” and “Client for NFS”
Click “Ok”

More to come, shortly I hope.

Letter from Procter & Gamble Exec

The Redneck Geek — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:25:28 +0000

Please read, even if you are an Obama fan. It is legitimate, written by respected, Lou Prichett, formerly of Proctor and Gamble.   Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America ‘s true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world’s highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as “partnering.” Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

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AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America ‘ crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

TRUE – CHECK:  http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp

This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it.   Big surprise! Since it hit the internet, however, it has had over 500,000 hits. Keep it going. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. It’s happening right now.

More bait and switch double talk from Washington DC

The Redneck Geek — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:30:35 +0000

Unbelievable!! You will find the following excerpt on page 203, lines 14 – 18 of House Resoution 3200:

“The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax imposed by this chapter for purposes of determining the amount of any credit under this chapter or for purposes of section 55.’’

If I understand this correctly, this bill would inflict a new tax upon the citizens, but they want to conceal the fact the this bill created the tax!

Talk about a blatant “Bait and Switch” !!!

Download your copy of HR3200 here: hr3200.pdf

Ubuntu 8.04 — Upgrade proftpd 1.3.1 to 1.3.2

The Redneck Geek — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:57:34 +0000

Totally remove ProFTPd and all configuration files:

apt-get remove –purge proftpd

Create proftpd user and directories for the install:

groupadd -g 46 proftpd (Note: If gid 46 is already used, just pick another one)
useradd -c proftpd -d /srv/ftp -g proftpd -s /usr/bin/proftpdshell -u 46 proftpd
install -v -d -m775 -o proftpd -g proftpd /srv/ftp
ln -v -s /bin/false /usr/bin/proftpdshell
echo /usr/bin/proftpdshell >> /etc/shells

As an unpriveledged user, download the proftpd version 1.3.2 and configure it for install:

cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.3.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf proftpd-1.3.2.tar.gz
cd /tmp/proftpd-1.3.2
./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –localstatedir=/var/run –with-modules=mod_tls
make

As a priveledged user, install proftpd:

make install

Configure proftpd:

mkdir /etc/proftpd
mv /etc/proftpd.conf /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
add the following lines to /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
DefaultRoot ~
IdentLookups off
ServerIdent on “FTP Server ready.”

cd /etc/init.d
rm -f ./proftpd
wget http://www.redneck-geek.net/blog/wp-content/proftpd.txt –output-document=proftpd
chmod 755 proftpd
update-rc.d proftpd defaults

Start proftp:

/etc/init.d/proftpd start

How to add an additional SMTP port to Zimbra

The Redneck Geek — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:14:24 +0000

Zimbra’s Wiki on adding additional SMTP port

Install Webmin on Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron

The Redneck Geek — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:17:45 +0000

Installing Webmin in Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron

Login as root
- If you have not set a root password, you can do this with the command: sudo su
Install the following packages
- apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl
Download the latest webmin using the following command
- wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.420_all.deb
Install this package using the following command
- dpkg -i webmin_1.420_all.deb
Login into Webmin with this URL: https://your-server-ip:10000
Done!

Note: You will not be able to login as root in WebAdmin unless you have set a root password!! However Webmin will allow any user who has this sudo capability to login with full root privileges.