Running the following should save your chains and rules and make them available for when the system or iptables itself is restarted:

/etc/init.d/iptables save active

I am not too sure why this extra bit is needed as our Gentoo servers and even our Debian server simply allows just the save command to be used. However, I hope others find the above useful when working with iptables in Ubuntu. I am hoping the Ubuntu team fixes this (as well as the init.d scripts from the client version of Ubuntu if they haven’t already). I really hope even with the introduction of the ‘ufw’ (Ubuntu Firewall) software they don’t dumb down the functionality of iptables to where someone who knows what they’re doing is no longer able to do so.

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Please note, if you’re getting the “No Network Connection, Offline Login Failed” you might want to try restarting the virtual machine or even your computer. Restarting my computer seemed to fix the issue, I believe that VirtualBox doesn’t complete it’s network (virtual adapters) setup until your computer is restarted but I could be wrong. Once you’ve actually gotten the image to boot you’re prompted to login. use your GMail account info, or if you have a normal Google account (@Google.com) this will work as well.

Upon logging into the system, you’re basically presented with the Google Chrome web browser. This is pretty much it. There’s a Google Short links, which I assume will basically give you short cuts to all the Google Apps (Docs, Sites, Calendar, Gmail, etc…), but yeah that’s pretty much it. Seeing as how this is probably pre-alpha, I guess it’s a start in the right direction. I am not sure what the final goal for the Chrome OS is, whether it be simply a portal to your Google applications or a bit more of a fully featured OS. It may indeed simply be something you toss on a netbook, boot into and have almost instant access to your calendars, emails, documents from Google, but I am not sure.

Apparently you also cannot change the resolution, so you’re stuck at the awful 800×600 for the moment. There’s not much tweaking you can do to the system, you can see the battery status (which makes me think this is geared to netbooks/notebooks, and you can check on the network status (see if WiFi/Ethernet is connected or not). You can also play with the settings of the web browser (which is essentially the only thing on the system haha). That said, it’s a neat idea and I certainly wouldn’t mind tossing this on one of my netbooks when it goes final. When I use my netbook I’m never usually doing anything outside of my web browser, unless it’s in a terminal so this would work quite well. I’m definitely excited to see it develop and mature!

At this time, I guess I am not really sure what to think of Google Wave. The issue could simply be that there’s not enough people that I know on Wave, so using it at the moment, or at least using it to its full potential is just not possible. I can certainly see how one can use Google Wave under the right circumstances, and it sure looks like it might be a great tool for collaborating on projects. I am hoping that within the next 6 months, I am able to actually use the product. I feel quite let down at the moment, so I am really hoping Google comes through on this! Lots of big hype but nothing super fantastic yet :(

Sooo, uuuh, who wants to be my valentine and get me one of these?! :) <3