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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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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Sunday, November 28th, 2004
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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Monday, November 22nd, 2004
Recently I have been asked about how to setup a service similar to Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) in Windows. For those really interested Microsoft's ICS implementation consists of an internal DHCP server hardwired to the 192.168.0.0/24 range with the master computer set to 192.168.0.1. There is also a small DNS ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
Today I ran into an interesting problem with my Treo 600 and Redhat's Fedora Core 2 Linux. I was trying to transfer something over to the external SD card in the Treo. A few days ago I got the external SD card reader to work after some fidgeting, but today ...
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