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DLink DWL-122 USB on Fedora Core 2
Thursday, February 10th, 2005After 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 ...
A Windows Alternative to Knoppix
Thursday, January 27th, 2005Knoppix 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 ...
Making TurboTax.com Work on Linux
Tuesday, January 18th, 2005(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 ...
Free Software Magazine
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005The first issue of the Free Software Magazine has just been published. Excellent articles on file formats and XML.
Two New Security Holes in the Linux Kernel
Tuesday, December 14th, 2004Paul 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". ...
Visual Basic for Linux
Saturday, December 4th, 2004Just 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 ...
Lynx to the Rescue
Tuesday, November 30th, 2004Last 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 ...
Recovering a Corrupted RPM Database
Sunday, November 28th, 2004One 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 ...
A Linux Firewall for Average Users
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004For the past two months I have been using Linux (Fedora Core 2) as my primary desktop environment. It has been a trick finding applications to replace the ones I used on Windows. Among them was a free firewall applications from ZoneLabs called ZoneAlarm. Trying to find a similar one ...