thegoldenear.org - noteworthy changes

pfSense 1.2 firewall appliance - 0.4.0

Added OpenVPN Server and restoring pfSense configuration for quick installation

Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 3.2

A new version. Notable updates: OpenOffice 2.4; GIMP 2.4; Debian server 4.0; automated workstation software upgrades; pfSense firewall appliance; administer mailboxes using web browser. See the changelog for the complete list of changes.

TWEAK - Windows configuration - 0.9.0 Release Candidate 3

Changes since Release Candidate 2:

Windows Configuration - Manual settings for this user - added warning that ClearType may not always look better
Shortcuts - Removed stray Start Menu\Video directory and its VLC shortcuts
Shortcuts - Removed stray Start Menu\Documentation\VLC media player Documentation shortcut

Twix - Debian desktop, server & RCS setup script - 0.3.6

Changes:

Server System Software Installation - Database server (MySQL) - no longer sets the MySQL password for you because it was mistakenly adding an actual password of ''$MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD''
Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 3.0 - 3.2 Configuration - When you add a new user it no longer prompts to add them to the shared organisation group. You now need to additionally use 'Add a user to a group' for that. This is because it isn't a given that you want each user to have access to the shared drive.

TWEAK - Windows configuration - 0.9.0 Release Candidate 2

Changes in Release Candidate 1 and 2:

Windows Configuration

Split out local intranet zone security settings from those of Internet, trusted and untrusted zones
Removed Various individual Windows and domain / RCS settings... - Various individual Windows configuration settings - Don't require pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to login
Set Windows Automatic Updates to not automatically reboot after applying updates - this setting wasn't working (I mistakenly used REG_BINARY rather than REG_DWORD)
'Configure %USERNAME%'s Windows interface' - No longer sets desktop background to black
'Various individual Windows configuration settings' - 'Set desktop background to Windows Classic's default blue' - changed to 'Set desktop background to black'
'Various individual Windows configuration settings' - added 'Set desktop background to rouge (a warning) for administrator accounts'
Removed 'Windows Toolbox' logo for System Properties (oemlogo.bmp)
Removed per-machine manual option '6. Configure printer drivers'
Added per-machine manual settings - Windows Explorer's look and feel - Tools - Folder Options... - View - Advanced settings - Use simple file sharing (Recommended) - off
'Manual settings for this user' - added 'If using a flat panel monitor (+ some others too), improve legibility: Appearance - Effects - [x] Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts: - Clear Type'
Added to 'Configure this user's IE interface; Internet/trustd/restrictd security' - Software channel permissions - High safety which was previously on the manual list. Left at default in Local Intranet zone. (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\2\1E05 = 10000)
Removed per-user manual setting '7. Internet Explorer - Tools - Internet Options... - Security - pick zone - Custom Level... - Miscellaneous - Software channel permissions - High safety'.
Added to 'Configure this user's IE interface; Internet/trustd/restrictd security' - User Authentication - Logon - prompt for username and password which was previously on the manual list. Left at default in Local Intranet zone. (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\4\1A00 = 10000)
Removed per-user manual setting '7. Internet Explorer - Tools - Internet Options... - Security - pick zone - Custom Level... - User Authentication - Logon - Prompt for user name and password?'.
Network Configuration - removed 'Windows XP Pro 'signorseal' fix to allow it to authenticate with a Windows NT4 or Samba 2.x domain controller' (REG_DWORD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\requiresignorseal" = "00000000" and "00000001")
Configure general Windows system and interface on this machine - Don't require pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to login (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DisableCAD" = "00000001") http://blogs.msdn.com/tim_rains/archive/2004/11/15/257877.aspx
'Add branding' and 'Add branding (from A:\)' - if Windows text and graphic for System Properties already exist, make a backup before we overwrite them.
Removed per-user Internet Explorer setting - Allow cookies that are stored on your computer - enable (for 4 zones)
Removed per-user Internet Explorer setting - Allow per-session cookies (not stored) - enable (for 4 zones)

Shortcut Management

Added Start Menu - Programs - Internet - UltraVNC with 'Show Default Settings' and 'Show User Settings'
Stopped removing UltraVNC Viewer desktop shortcut shortcut, TWEAK doesn't provide its own version of this because I only use UltraVNC Server so if it's there it means someone wanted it there.
FileZilla / FTP shortcuts were broken
Changed GIMP executable from gimp-2.2.exe to gimp-2.4.exe
Updated for Scribus 1.3.3.10 and 1.3.3.11
Updated FileZilla Start Menu items for version 3
Added Ogg Codecs from Illiminable
F-Prot shortcut mistakenly pointed to %SYSTEMROOT%\installer... rather than the program executable
Removed Dia - we now recommend OpenOffice Draw instead
Really remove FTP shortcut from desktop

Java Configuration - Update 'Disable Java Runtime Environment updater' for JRE 6

JRE 6.0u1 doesn't recognize the EnableAutoUpdateCheck or JavaUpdate keys
JRE 5.0u6 is the most recent version where the automatic update behavior can be controlled for all users
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=784153&messageID=9481598
HKCU\Software\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy\EnableAutoUpdateCheck. Overrides HKLM. is a binary value
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy\EnableJavaUpdate removes tab from control panel applet, doesn't disable updater

TWEAK is trying this:

	[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy]
	"EnableJavaUpdate"=dword:00000000
	"EnableAutoUpdateCheck"=dword:00000000
	"NotifyDownload"=dword:00000000
	"NotifyInstall"=dword:00000000
	"Frequency"=dword:010d0000
	"UpdateSchedule"=dword:00000000

Adobe Reader Configuration - Added Adobe Reader 8.0 config with same options as 7.0
Driver Configuration

Added Stop S3 graphics driver system tray utility loading
Added Stop S3 graphics driver hotkey poller loading
Moved 'Stop MS Office Startup Assistant + Find Fast loading when log in' from App Config to TSR Disable
Moved 'Stop Adobe Gamma loader from loading on system startup' from App Config to TSR Disable
Renamed tsr-disable.bat background-disable.bat

Server Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.2

Changes:

Added 'NTP - Set The Time From An Internet Time Server' section
Expanded the Mail Server section
Polished off Webmin section
Added 'Network Addressing' section to 'General Configuration' section
Improved 'updates' section in 'Linux kernel updates'

Twix - Debian desktop & server setup script - 0.3.5

Changes:

Server Software - OpenSSH server - tried to install 'openssh' rather than 'openssh-server'
'Desktop Software, Part 2' -> 'Video editing' - menu option didn't work
menu option for Linux 2.6 kernel for amd64 didn't work
removed php4-cli from bluefish

pfSense 1.2 firewall appliance - NEW

New guide: pfSense 1.2 firewall appliance installation, configuration and usage. I'm now using pfSense rather than IPCop.

Server Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.1

Changes:

Added PostgreSQL database
Added 'updates' section to 'Linux kernel updates' section with examples of the different messages you're likley to see when updating.
Added diagram to help explain mail server system
Fleshed out RAID + LVM so that it's now a step-by-step guide you can follow rather than a synopsis
Various minor updates

Server Setup with Debian 3.1/Sarge Guide - 0.7.15

Changes:

Squirrelmail - added configuration to make use of IMAP SORT
Added 'set no bouncemail' to Fetchmail configuration to fix issue of replying to spam email

Desktop System Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.4.1

Changes:

Updated for Debian 4.0r2 release
Updated for flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.31.0.1 / 9.0.48.0.1 to 9.0.115.0.1
Changed flashplugin-nonfree from 'non-free' to 'contrib'

Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy' Desktop Addendum - NEW

New guide available 'Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy' Desktop Addendum' intending to describe everything I'd do to an out-of-the-box installation to make it what I'd consider more complete.

Remote Access Guide - 0.7

Added a guide to running OpenVPN GUI on Windows XP for non-administrator accounts, Windows Limited user accounts

Desktop System Setup with Debian Testing/Lenny Guide - 0.10.0

Changes:

Added new section: Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T / Freeview)
Added new section 'Partitioning Disks' with gparted
Tidied up the scanner section and added scanner firmware information
I bought a machine with an AMD 64 Athlon CPU (only £90UK) to learn about the amd64 architecture. Consequently I've been able to add amd64 information for flashplugin-nonfree, sun-java5-jre and Skype
Replaced gpdf with evince. gpdf is a leftover from Debian Sarge that doesn't exist any more
Fleshed out GNOME font installation
Removed the small amount of XFCE-specific information including packages xpdf and xfmedia. I intended this guide to be as descriptive for XFCE as it is for GNOME but having not managed to spend much time with an XFCE desktop environment I haven't garnered that knowledge. I now think the best place for XFCE desktop information would be a separate guide. The packages for the XFCE desktop environment itself remain.
Added msttcorefonts to wine
Added unshield
Removed mdetect as xserver-xorg no longer uses it
Added links for information on new xorg auto-configuration

Desktop System Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.4.0

Changes:

Added new section: Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB-T / Freeview)
Tidied up the scanner section and added scanner firmware information
I bought a machine with an AMD 64 Athlon CPU (only £90UK) to learn about the amd64 architecture. Consequently I've been able to add amd64 information for flashplugin-nonfree, sun-java5-jre and Skype
Fleshed out GNOME font installation
backports.org kernel upgraded from 2.6.21 to 2.6.22
Added unshield
Removed the small amount of XFCE-specific information including packages xpdf and xfmedia. I intended this guide to be as descriptive for XFCE as it is for GNOME but having not managed to spend much time with an XFCE desktop environment I haven't garnered that knowledge. I now think the best place for XFCE desktop information would be a separate guide. The packages for the XFCE desktop environment itself remain.
Removed latex-xft-fonts as they're not available in Etch
Replaced gpdf with evince. gpdf is a leftover from Debian Sarge that doesn't exist any more

Server Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.0.5

Changes:

Added unshield
Squirrelmail - added configuration to make use of IMAP SORT

Server Setup with Debian 3.1/Sarge Guide - 0.7.15

Changes:

Squirrelmail - added configuration to make use of IMAP SORT
Added 'set no bouncemail' to Fetchmail configuration to fix issue of replying to spam email

Server Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.0.1

Changes:

In example Fetchmail configuration file added 'set postmaster ""' to set no postmaster so mail tagged as SMTP 550 error 'Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table' is discarded rather than going in fetchmail's mailbox (/var/mail/fetchmail) and eating up disk space

TWEAK - Windows configuration - 0.9.0 Beta 7

OpenOffice Configuration - added the following:
- 'Backup this user's OpenOffice 2 profile essentials (user dictionary)', as it says it's just the user dictionary but if there's anything else worth backing up in particular I'll add it here
- 'Backup this user's OpenOffice 2 profile (to Application Data dir.)'
- 'Delete this user's OpenOffice 2 profile'
Removed Mozilla Configuration. It's the end-of-an-era deleting this, the end of code I invested a lot of time in, that was once one of the most important features of the program, but that era's long over and it's now merely cruft to be thrown out. The Firefox Configuration is based on this, though far simpler because Mozilla had a lot of defaults that needed chnaging where as Firefox's defaults are a lot saner.

Twix - Debian configuration - 0.3.4

Server Software section changes:

Added additional phpmyadmin that makes sure it installs with PHP5, Apache2 (Prefork MPM) and php5-mysql
PHP 5 - changed from the php5 package to libapache2-mod-php5
PHP 5 - changed php-pear package to php-pear
PHP 5 - added php5-dev package for PEAR
Created separate web server section with Apache and PHP
Replaced 'apache2' option with the following 'Apache 2.2 (with Worker MPM)', 'Apache 2.2 (with Prefork MPM)' and 'Apache 2.2 (with Event MPM)'

Server Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.0

Changes:

Apache section: changed from apache to apache2 and in particular apache2-mpm-worker, apache2-mpm-prefork and apache2-mpm-event
MySQL section
- Added mysql-server-5.0
- Made sure phpmyadmin installs with PHP5 and Apache2 by using libapache2-mod-php5
- Added php5-mysql
PHP section
- Changed php5 to libapache2-mod-php5
- Replaced non-existant php5-pear with php-pear
- Added php5-dev and a full list of available PHP modules

Backup to hotswap USB disk script - 0.2.1

Initial release of this (BASH, command-line) script that will allow you to connect a USB-attached hard disk, leave it overnight to get backed-up to, unplug it the next day and take it away. It is intended to be run on a server.

Twix - Debian configuration - 0.3.3

Server Software - OpenSSH server - split into 'ssh' (which is both the SSH client and the SSH server, for Debian Sarge) and openssh-server (which is just the SSH server, for Debian Etch)
Server Software - Web server - split into Apache and Apache2 options
Server Software - Mail Server - Configure mail server - the admin user provider_admin@localhost may not work because it appears to be coming from provider_admin@localhost.localdomain (or whatever your local domain is) (you get the error "localhost postfix/trivial-rewrite[11346]: warning: connect to mysql server 127.0.0.1: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server". So an account is now created for provider_admin@localhost.localdomain. If your domain is named differently this won't help you. (In Debian Etch MySQL 5 will understand that these two host entries are identical.
Server Software - Mail Server - Configure mail server - said it was going to set the 'mynetworks' option Postfix's main.cf from '127.0.0.0/8' to '127.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8' but was actually wrongly setting it to '127.0.0.1/8, 10.0.0.0/8'. It's not until you come to upgrade to Debian Etch that you notice this because I don't believe the 127.0.0.0/1 is used (rather the 10.0.0.0) and Debian Sarge's Postfix doesn't complain where-as Debian Etch's Postfix refuses to run, saying "fatal: non-null host address bits in "127.0.0.1/8", perhaps you should use "127.0.0.0/8" instead."

TWEAK - Windows configuration - 0.9.0 Beta 6

OpenOffice Configuration - Configure %USERNAME%'s OpenOffice: pre-complete the start wizard (both OpenOffice and MS Office versions) - Removed 'ooSetupInstCompleted' - 'true' from the user's pre-configuration as it caused OpenOffice 2.3.0 (not 2.2.0) to complain about missing script.xlc, script.xli, dialog.xlc and dialogs.xli on initial run then subsequently dialog.xlc and dialogs.xli, claiming "BASIC input/output error"
Windows Configuration - Various individual Windows configuration settings - added 'Don't require pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to login' (it's already in the main Windows Configuration section but useful on its own because it re-appears after joining a machine to a domain)
Windows Configuration - Various individual Windows configuration settings - removed 'Show hidden files and folders' (because I've never used it from within TWEAK, always from Windows itself)
Windows Configuration - Various individual Windows configuration settings - removed 'Show protected operating system files' (because I've never used it from within TWEAK, always from Windows itself)
IrfanView Configuration - swapped to the vastly improved toolbar skin (using 'Skin=Gorsberg_24.png') (why doesn't Irfan enable this by default?)
IrfanView Configuration - fixed wrongly specified external viewer / editor program ('ExternalViewer=D:\programs\GIMP\bin\gimp.exe' to 'ExternalViewer=C:\Program Files\gimp\bin\gimp-2.2.exe'. Sadly IrfanView won't accept 'ExternalViewer=%PROGRAMFILES%\gimp\bin\gimp-2.2.exe' and sadly GIMP has a version-specific executable!)
Shortcut Management - Now removes OpenOffice 2.3 Start Menu shortcuts
Adobe Reader Configuration - Fixed Adobe Reader 8 desktop shortcut not being removed
Windows Configuration - Windows branding was made in %WINDIR%\system. It is now more correctly made in %WINDIR%\system32 (Either location works though).

Desktop System Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.3.0

Added new section 'Partitioning Disks' with gparted
Added gdebi
Added msttcorefonts to wine

Desktop System Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.2.1

Added Proprietary Software section with Internet Explorer and Skype
Added first draught of a Colour Management section
Added ufraw; removed gimp-dcraw
Updated Wine section with WineHQ repository, removed wine-doc as it's merged into wine
Added libpam-keyring
Added thoggen
Replaced totem with totem-gstreamer in 'Multi media players, including DVD' section and removed vlc
Added mjpegtools, ogmtools, subtitleripper, etcetera as supporting software to dvdrip
Added guide to installing TrueType fonts for print
Removed xfce4-iconbox and xfce4-showdesktop-plugin as they're not part of XFCE 4.4 in Etch
Removed thinkpad-base, tpctl, thinkpad-source, configure-thinkpad, ibm-acpi as they're not available and thus also removed the IBM Thinkpad section
Removed the Clearlooks skin for mplayer, possibly temporarily, because it doesn't apply to mplayer-nogui
Removed network-manager package as we only need be concerned with the network-manager-gnome package

Desktop System Setup with Debian Testing/Lenny Guide - 0.9.1

Twix - Debian configuration - version 0.3.2

Added Testing Security updates
Added sarge-proposed-updates (main and contrib) [UK] repository
Added sarge-proposed-updates (main, contrib and non-free) [UK] repository
Added etch-proposed-updates (main and contrib) [UK] repository
Added etch-proposed-updates (main, contrib and non-free) [UK] repository
Added debian-multimedia repository for Debian Lenny and Testing
Removed p7zip-full from minor useful tools
Removed option to 'Remove Mozilla suite, Epiphany, Gnumeric and GNOME games'
Labeled IBM Thinkpad section as for Debian 3.1/Sarge only
Liferea, Freeloader and Gnomebaker for Etch menu options didn't work
Split 'Package Repository Configuration' section into 'official Debian repositories' and 'other repositories'

Desktop System Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - 1.1.0

Added Thunderbird / Icedove Extensions Adblock Plus, Enigmail, Lightning and Mail Redirect
Added Firefox Add-on Adblock Plus
Added icedove-traybiff
Added aptitude-doc-
Added etch-proposed-updates repository
Added section on updates and upgrades
Information on recent inability to install flashplugin-nonfree
Miscellaneous other changes

Twix - Debian configuration - version 0.3.1

Added Squirrelmail Apache configuration to respond to mail.server; Squirrelmail Apache configuration was mistakenly for Apache 2 not Apache

TWEAK - Windows configuration - version 0.9.0 Beta 5

Windows Configuration - per-machine manual settings - removed advice to remove Internet Explorer as it's required for Microsoft Update / Windows Update; Changed TWEAK's licence from GPL version 2 only to GPL version 3 and any later version

Twix - Debian configuration - version 0.3.0

Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 2.0 Configuration updated for version 3.0 and 3.1; added liferea and freeloader; fixed issues in mail server configuration; relicenced under GPL version 3

TWEAK - Windows configuration - version 0.9.0 Beta 4

Lots of changes since Beta 3.

Twix - Debian configuration - version 0.2.2 (added changelog)

Moved package repository configuration from Package Management section to its own Package Repository Configuration
Added Volatile and Volatile Sloppy
Added tsclient + support for VNC, RDP, XDMCP; removes grdesktop for Debian 4.0/Etch

Twix - script for setting up Debian desktops and servers - version 0.2.1

Added OpenSSH server installation and backports.org repository archive key installation; fixed package management section that wouldn't run; fixed Simple Backup Suite option that ran the Bluetooth option instead

Desktop System Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - version 1.0.1

Added Liferea RSS feed reader and instructions to set Iceweasel / Firefox as the preferred GNOME web browser

Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) updated

Expanded information on version 3.0; details and guides for new version 3.1

Server Setup with Debian 4.0 'Etch' Guide - added LVM

Version 0.9.4 includes information on logical volume management (LVM)

TWEAK - version 0.9.0 Beta 3

The first releases in nearly three years, bringing TWEAK up-to-date with current editions of popular free software applications on Windows

Desktop System Setup with Debian 4.0/Etch Guide - version 1.0

Improved NTFS filesystem support; graphics adapter configuration tools; backports.org kernel 2.6.21

Remote Access Guide - version 0.5

New document on using VPN, VNC and SSH to setup remote access into an intranet and access to machines whether they run Windows or Unix

TWEAK - version 0.9.0 Beta 2

The first releases in nearly three years, bringing TWEAK up-to-date with current editions of popular free software applications on Windows

Twix - script for setting up Debian desktops and servers - version 0.2

Now completely up-to-date with our Debian Sarge and Etch desktop and server documents