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! Yes, it’s here just for alpha testers. Thanks to Michael Amington @  and lew @ Blognone to point me to these impressive screenshots. As you might see in the first screenshot.

How to enable NAT in iptables

In my previous post regarding OpenVPN, I assumed that the machine is already running iptables as a gateway. If the machine is just a standalone server, you have to enable NAT gateway in iptables. In order to do that, modify /etc/sysconfig/iptables to follow below sample.

*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
COMMIT
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i tap+ -j ACCEPT  

How to install OpenVPN on Fedora Core 2

Once you have a server and want to work like you sit in front of the console, you are looking for VPN. I have set many VPN on Linux servers. There are so many solutions and standards. Anyway, most of them rely on the standard and UDP protocol. UDP is good for tunneling but might not work correctly behide NAT and firewall. Usually, all networks allow to access web through web proxy. The web protocol, HTTP, relies on TCP protocol. OpenVPN is a VPN solution which supports both UDP and TCP at the same time. Cool! You can even establish VPN connection through HTTP proxy.

BitTorrent Client: The Big Three and their consortium

As of today, everyone knows what BitTorrent is with no doubt. To download/upload via BitTorrent, you need a kind of BitTorrent client. Lots of BitTorrent client has been developed during two years ago. BTQueue is one of them. Anyway, it seems The Big Three are sharing the biggest part of BitTorrent client in the wild.

  1. uTorrent 1.5
  2. BitComet 0.63

Choosing a web application framework

What is your favorite web application framework? There are so many choices. Jet Propulsion Labs release a movie to present the review process of 5 frameworks. Thanks greggles to share that url. Below are the list of that frameworks.

Choosing a desktop calendar

If you are very busy and mostly forget what you planed, you might want some kind of calendar software. As far as I know, web-based calendar will never work because it is on the web. You may forget to open that page to see what to do next. And most of all, you have to go on-line every time you just want to see the calendar. In addition, you want a host to place your calendar software, e.g., WebCalendar.

As a result, the best solution is a desktop calendar software. One of the best is Microsoft Outlook. Anyway, my favorite mail client is Thunderbird so Outlook is not my choice at all. Sunbird seems to be okay but unfortunately, it doesn’t support Buddhism Era, 2006 is 2549, at all. I live until to day without calendar and now I think it is the time to choose again.