Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 607 Views
Installing server side components on shared hosting is always a challenge. In the last few weeks as I have begun to undertake more web based consulting assignments, I have found myself facing the need for source code management as well as project management. At my old startup, we use Subversion ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 477 Views
One of the long overdue tasks that I managed to get done today is to upgrade the Amazon EC2 image used for PublicDomainReprints.org to Fedora Core 8. There were three small issues that I ran into and I am posting my solutions to them in hopes that they will help ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008 525 Views
This is a short guide for people who want to use Flash with Opera under Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy):
1. Enabled the proposed repository in System->Administration->Software Sources.
2. Go to Synaptic and install the latest flash plugin from the proposed repository.
3. Go to Opera's website and install the 9.50 beta version.
4. Start ...
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Sunday, July 31st, 2005 561 Views
I had the the Microsoft MN-520 Wireless PCMCIA Card for some time but have never yet used a router with WPA support. With the move and a new wireless setup, I decided to use WPA-PSK for better security over plain WEP. Much to my suprise Linux did not support WPA ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2005 909 Views
Among the occasional emails that drop into my inbox are ones from Tony Mobily who edits the Free Software Magazine. However, the one that I got today was not the usual one in the business of journalism - rather it was a pointer to an editorial (or a pill as ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005 579 Views
Groklaw is carrying a story tonight titled "Hints About GPL3". Well, I had a rather stupid question - why is it that one of the most popular open source licenses is not being developed in the open?
UPDATE: After exchanging emails with some people, it seems that the draft is being ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005 979 Views
I finally got around to upgrading my Mozilla Mail installation to the new Thunderbird client. Unfortunatly, it went less smoothly than I have hoped but it worked. At first, I followed the instructions provided by David Tenser. Unfortunatly, on the Linux side I ran across a rather nasty bug which ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005 718 Views
Since the official Fedora distribution is lagging, Thomas Chung provides excellent instructions on building your own RPM. For the lazy ones among you, I put up my binary RPM here.
Following up on an earlier problem of sharing Thunderbird data between Windows and Linux, David Tenser has an article on his ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005 608 Views
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005 2,055 Views
After struggling for a few days to get this adapter to work, I was finally sucessful and am going to do a small writeup here to help others. I am running Fedora Core 2 with kernel v2.6.10-1.9_FC2 on Athlon 1Ghz with Wlan-NG v0.2.1-pre26.
The DLink DWL-122 USB 802.11b Adapter is based ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005 599 Views
Knoppix has become a favorite tool among system administrators for rescuing Windows systems. Larry Seltzer points to a Windows-based tool called BartPE which does a similar job but is based on Windows instead of Linux. You do need a copy of Windows to use it since it uses system files ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005 1,851 Views
(TurboTax now works fine with FireFox on Linux. This post will remain here for historical purposes.)
I have using Intuit's online version of TurboTax for the past few years to file my taxes. However, this was the first year I used it in Linux. Logically, since it is a web based ...
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2005 470 Views
The first issue of the Free Software Magazine has just been published. Excellent articles on file formats and XML.
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 456 Views
Paul Starzetz of iSEC has discovered two new security holes in the Linux kernel. The first hole, a flaw in the kernel implementation of IGMP (multicasting) allows "unprivileged local users" to "gain elevated (root) privileges" and "remote users to hang or even crash a vulnerable Linux machine". ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004 579 Views
Just ran across a Linux program that aims to be a Visual Basic-replacement for Linux - Gambas. Haven't played with it yet but it looks very promising especially the fact that it is syntax compatible with VB6. I wonder if Microsoft cares enough to stop them considering that VB6 probably ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 518 Views
Last night I have been trying to login into the credit card site for a major US banking institution and to my suprise, nothing worked. I tried out FireFox, Mozilla, Konquerer and Opera. All of them failed but to my suprise one browser worked - LYNX. Yes, the text based ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2004 498 Views
One of the more fun things to do for Linux sysadmins is dealing with corrupted RPM databases. RPM or "Redhat Package Manager" was invented by Redhat to allow for easier management of installed programs and dependicies on Linux systems.
In my specific case, one of our servers running Fedora Core 2 ...
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