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  • VMware Server, Firefox 3.6, and you.
    Something that VMware quietly changed with the release of VMware Server v2.0 was that they deprecated the use of their stand-alone management console application - if you
  • Leave nothing to chance.
    Something that I keep meaning to write about is the topic of practical data backups - how to back your data up in such a way that you won't go bonkers trying to manage it,
  • Arduino cross-development kit on Gentoo.
    While I’m sitting here hacking around, here’s the exact command that I needed to run to get the Arduino development kit to install properly on Windbringer: It should be no
  • I figured out the glitch in Windbringer.
    Ever since version 2.6.29 of the Linux kernel was released I'd been having problems with Windbringer crashing on shutdown. After triggering the system shutdown applet in G
  • Linux? Linux. Linux... Linux. Oh, and user interfaces.
    ObDisclaimer: I don't design user interfaces for a living. Originally, I was working on a post about Linux - about why I switched to it, and pontificating about why more p
  • Setting up encrypted swap.
    As computers go these days, it is not unusual for the amount of free RAM to reach a critical level at which no other processes will fit into what little unused memory is l
  • Lost weeks.
    I haven't been posting lately due to the fact Real Life (tm) has been keeping me away from the Net and generally too busy to write about what's been going on. Two weekends
  • The OCZ NIA and Linux.
    As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I recieved as a Yule gift an OCZ NIA, a hardware device aimed at gamers which acts as one part EEG and one part biofeedback monitor. T
  • Odd Gnome problems, or, what happened to my icons?
    While upgrading Windbringer's systemware yesterday, I suddenly ran across a rather odd problem: all of the icons on my Gnome desktop suddenly turned into the default Gnome
  • Network update: Leandra back online.
    Maintenance on Leandra is finished. I took her offline around 2100 ESET5EDT on Saturday night to remove a dead DVD-ROM drive, remove a pair of 512GB memory modules that we
  • Synching the wild Palm Treo...
    I'm a big fan of the open source pilot-link package to back the contents of my smartphone up to offline storage on the off chance that something goes wrong and I need to b
  • Safe browsing from hacker cons: Running a personal proxy.
    Whenever I plan on using my laptop at a convention, in particular at hacker cons, it's practically assured that an unknown number of attendees will be monitoring the wirel
  • Boot loaders and securing dual-booting portable systems.
    If you've been following the news media for the past year or so, stores have been cropping up with frightening regularity about travelers who are detained at the border wh
  • Linux, UDEV, HAL, and removable drives.
    Now that I've metabolized the caffeine from the two-and-an-unknown-fraction pots of coffee I've drunk today (don't ask), I have it together enough to write about an unusua
  • Cutting the power doesn't necessarily mean that memory is cleared.
    It has long been a piece of grassroots wisdom that when the power to your computer goes dead, you're up a certain creek without a means of propulsion: Whatever you were do
  • Linux on the Dell Inspiron 1520
    Linux distribution successfully used: Gentoo Linux 2007.0 Currently running kernel: sys-kernel/vanilla-sources v2.6.24.1 I'll put everything else behind the cut because it
  • I now know what it's like to be invisible.
    If you tell someone a way to test something that does not require large-scale reconstruction of a system and is reversible... they'll ignore you and trash their system to
  • State of the Time Lord: I never could stay put for very long...
    I'm writing this update from Lyssa's parents' house once again - the holiday is here once again (however you happen to celebrate it), and this year we've gone back to visi
  • Situation report from Austin, Texas.
    Things have finally slowed down somewhat in Austin, affording me the opportunity to write a long-overdue update. Workdays have been long (averaging thirteen hours out of e
  • Working with software RAID in Linux.
    This post assumes that you've worked enough with Linux to know about the existence of software RAID in the Linux v2.6 kernel series, though not necessarily much about it.
  • Bastille Linux domain hijacked by domain squatter; project renamed, relocated.
    Some time on Monday, the Bastille Linux project was notified that someone had hijacked their domain, namely, a domain squatter named Mykhaylo Perebiynis who is willing to
  • Surprisingly, Dell is still listening.
    Since announcing their plan to start offering systems with Linux pre-installed, Dell has opened a survey site at which you can vote for what systems you'd like them to off
  • Sometimes I hate being right.
    It seems that Dell Computers is putting the brakes on their new lines of Linux-equipped computers. They've changed their minds, and instead of selling machines with SUSE L
  • Dell finally caves to customer pressure and offers systems with Linux pre-installed on them.
    Back in the late 90's, Dell offered computers for sale with Linux installed on them instead of Microsoft Windows, a move which got them sued and pressured to stop this pra
  • Archive: 20070112
    It's just about the middle of January, and just now has winter come to DC. I don't want to say that it's cold or anything but we've gone from wearing t-shirts and shorts o
  • Doesn't anyone sell flippin' bookcases anymore?!
    It's been an interesting weekend, to be sure.. Lyssa and I have been in the market for a couple of things lately, namely a bookcase or media shelf of some kind that we can
  • Random knowledge X.
    How to set up a crossover ethernet connection between two Sun Solaris machines: Connect both machines using a crossover ethernet cable. root@solaris-machine-1# ifconfig pl
  • Random knowledge VIII.
    You're getting old if you consider sleeping until 0900 'sleeping in'. When configuring a firewall with IPTables you have to specify the protocol before the port number(s)
  • Random knowledge VII.
    The /usr/bin/eject utility on a Linux system is a good way of figuring out which machine has what name in the KVM when you're dealing with a rack of machines, many of whic
  • Random knowledge VI.
    The actions of a systems cracker trying to get a foothold in someone's network by social engineering the people in the NOC and someone hunting for a job who is trying to g
  • Random knowledge III.
    Coding with a teddy bear in your lap helps immensely. IPtables for the v2.4 Linux kernel series doesn't understand virtual interfaces (a.k.a. IP Aliasing). If you've neve
  • Random knowledge II.
    If you turn on the Xscreensaver module called Sonar while you're running a packet monitoring application (such as TCPdump), people are less likely to think you're doing an
  • Random knowledge I.
    If you're a Newton user, you've no doubt considered picking up the ObEx stack for NewtonOS, which allows your MessagePad to communicate with other PDAs, such as the Palm P
  • Dell's selling blank systems again.
    Dell Computers is now selling N-series computers without operating systems, advertised specifically for Linux. It's anyone's guess how long it'll take Microsoft to stronga
  • Linux on the Dell Inspiron 700m.
    Distributions successfully used: Slackware Linux v10.0 Gentoo Linux 2006.1 Hardware assay: CPU: Intel Pentium-III M, 1.6 GHz, clocked at 3193.03 bogoMIPS Memory: 512MB Chi

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