My debian etch box is a file server amongst other things and generally I use NFS to mount its directories on other linux boxes, and as per an earlier post I also mount these directories on the MacMini. Generally access is read only, but I noticed my write access didn’t work at all. I kept [...]
I have a Thinkpad 600x with an external keyboard and mouse. Its old technology, so the keyboard and mouse are both PS/2 devices and connect via a splitter cable to the single PS/2 port on the back. The mouse has a scroll wheel. The 600x runs Archlinux and no matter what I did I’ve never [...]
Ok, So I installed kubuntu 7.04 (feisty Fawn) on my 1.5GHz Thinkpad T42 with 1GB of ram. My expectation was that it would be as snappy to use as Archlinux. Sure I was running XFCE on Arch, and Kubuntu defaults to KDE … but I thought the machine is surely fast enough to disregard the [...]
Here’s something odd that made me scratch my head. I have a Debian Etch server and a laptop running Archlinux. I was logged into the debian box and I thought I’d ssh across to the laptop and run firefox off the laptop, but using the Debian box’s monitor. So I did a : ssh -X [...]
I’ve been delving into SIP telephony lately. It all started when I wanted to have a PSTN phone number in another country. For business reasons, I have carried two mobile phones for the past two years. One has a phone number in the country where I live. The other has an overseas phone number. If [...]
I use linux a lot. Many professionals in the Unix world might play with linux on the desktop at home, and perhaps use linux on servers at work, but generally they’re not using linux on the desktop in the workplace. Windows still has that market wrapped up. However, I work from home a great deal [...]
Having used Debian Sarge for a while, and just using the default versions of e2fsprogs, I got used to unmounting logical volumes in order to resize them. However, now that I’ve upgraded to Etch, I can now finally do online resizing (yeah, yeah, I know I could have compiled the newer e2fsprogs for sarge …). [...]
Having recently installed Debian Etch, I was quite happy with the default Gnome setup … except for fonts in Iceweasel. There’s a tendency for some sites to use jagged bitmap fonts. I found the solution here. You just need to do the following: cp /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d fc-cache -vf I also installed the MS$ core fonts [...]
When I first started out working with UNIX it was with HP-UX systems almost 15 years ago. HP-UX 9 came standard with a logical volume manager (LVM). Some years later I first started looking at linux and the standard partitioning scheme in linux seemed archaic. That was a long long time ago. I had always [...]
If you do a google search on ‘linux dual monitors’ you’ll find a lot of forum discussions about this problematic issue. The thing is having two or more monitors has really caught on. The most common setup is a laptop with an extra monitor, but video cards often come with a DVI and VGA output [...]