I upgraded my RT install today using the version in rawhide bound to be release in Core 10. I had some trouble with the upgrade, and I want to share the solution with you: First of all, your system will survive the upgrade just fine. Yum reported that it only needed to pull seven packages … Continue reading
I got an HP laptop on work with an integrated Intel chip. I am of course running linux on it, but I want to be able to use an external screen. I have a docking station, so I have no problems just putting it in there, keeping the lid closed and starting up the machine … Continue reading
I’ve been toying around with IPv6 lately, with the services provided by www.sixxs.net They seem to be very proffessional. First I got myself a /64 link net. In an ipv4 world, that doesn’t make sense. Giving out a /64 as a link net is roughly the same as giving out a /16 ipv4 for point-to-point … Continue reading
Well, I seem to be starting a habbit for introducing ideas that never will be realized, but here’s another: Introducing: Covert Linux A distribution designed for people who are just a wee bit more paranoid that most people. Ideal for political activists. It will contain the following core features: Runnable via Live-CD and USB-key. Be … Continue reading
First of all, a little brush-up about myself: Well, as you have guessed, I am Allan Eising, demigod of computers to some (very few, but the cult is growing), geek to most and NOC Operator to my boss. I am currently employed as NOC (Network Operating Center) Operator at a relatively young tele communications company … Continue reading
Here is an article with some tar.gz magic. http://www.patrickpatoray.com/index.php?Page=34
Here is how you can set up a working chinese environment in Ubuntu 5.10. This article is a translation of http://www.80×86.cn/blog/blogview.asp?logID=544 First, be sure to select the Chinese locale zh_CN.UTF-8 using sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales. Run the following to set up the environment: sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-zh language-pack-gnome-zh-base language-pack-zh language-pack-zh-base language-support-zh Set up fonts with sudo … Continue reading
I recently began playing with Ruby on Rails, and as those of you who have tried setting it up on a server, it's a bit tricky. My server (called Chomsky) has quite a lot of different hosts. I've always used mod_vhost_alias because it made me able to just make a directory with the name of … Continue reading
Hey there. This is my first post. Here I will describe what meassures I took to close the relay on a friends qmail. First of all, my friend aproached me and told me he had trouble sending mail anywhere but locally, so I logged into his server (knowing your friend’s password and root password is … Continue reading
