Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Just some notes from my upgrade today. I upgraded from 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) to 9.04 (Jaunty). When the computer rebooted, and started X, the keyboard and mouse would not work. It seems that the HAL daemon failed on startup with a segfault. Upon further digging, it seems that this is ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
About six months ago, my trusty Sony VAIO laptop died - a victim of the infamous DC power jack problem. I ended up building a new desktop (AMD X2 5000, 2 GB of RAM, two hard drives in RAID configuration, lots of fans). In the process, I also took the ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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