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I've just bought a 2xQuad Core Zeon, Dell Poweredge 1900, with 16GB RAM. This is for some heavy duty Hyper-V testing in Windows Server 2008 but I thought it'd be fun to run it under OpenSuse 10.3 first. The result: Click the above image for a full size
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I bought a lttle Eee PC 701 machine but had problems configuring it to print to my Canon MP530. I decided to try the Turboprint.de driver and had some success. Download the Turboprint debian package from http://www.turboprint.info/ Start a terminal by
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I've managed to improve my video by switching from the Vesa driver (enabled by default) to the Radeon driver. The Radeon driver would not work properly without adding the line Option '"LVDSBiosNativeMode" "FALSE"' to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Thanks to Ricky
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Well - I've been running Vista on my new laptop for sometime so decided to play with the new Ubuntu release on my old Dell Inspiron 5100. It was a very easy install! I had to start from the CD in safe graphics mode but when the install was complete, Ubuntu
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I've been trying to test some printing configurations on SLES 10 SP1 but I couldn't get my laptop running Windows Vista Ultimate and VMWare Server v1.0.3 to successfully bridge onto the wireless adaptor. I could use NAT but then it was difficult to test
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I had a query on how to setup NIC bonding in RHEL4 so thought I would document it for the blog. I'll start with a standard server with 2 NICs, eth0 and eth1. Here is the output from 'ifconfig': The configuration scripts are found in /etc/sysconfig/network/network/scripts:
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After playing with the bcm43xx wireless module I noticed my eth0 had been renamed to eth1, indeed the message also appeared in dmesg output: dmesg | grep eth1 eth0 renamed to eth1 After a bit of poking I found duplicates of my network card mac address
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As of Kernel 2.6.17rc a native, reverse engineered, driver is available for bcm43xx range of wireless cards. I have had my bcm4306 rev 02 (Dell Truemobile 1300) card working in my Inspiron 5100 using ndiswrapper for some time but wanted to get the native
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This site has a nice script to run each incoming mail through ClamAV and to display a warning and move it to a quarentine folder if it contains a virus. Thanks to Fred Blaise .
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This documents my attempt to install XGL on my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop using Suse 10.1. I first tested it with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD so I knew that it would work. I had some problems with the login screen (seen this reported elsewhere - but I don't
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I've tried using CrossOffice to run MS Office applications on Linux but you really can't beat VMWare with an XP guest machine to run Outlook. That is unless you can't get VMWare to run. Thanks to Nilesh Bansal now I can.
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As always I had to use ndiswrapper to get my wireless working but this time was the easiest ever. I followed the following proceedure: Downloaded the latest drivers for my minipci from here . Bear in mind that I am in the UK so these are the non US/Japan
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With my laptop failing and having to send it back to Dell for repair it seemed an ideal opportunity to try out the latest beta of Vista (beta 2). Unfortuneatelty my graphics card (Mobility Radeon 7500) didn't let me use Aero and I had quite a few problems
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Since putting a Suse 10 box on the internet and allowing SSH through the firewall we have been getting attempts like this on a regular basis: May 27 09:14:20 nprobe sshd[689]: Did not receive identification string from 140.136.158.182 May 27 09:20:40
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I was trying to use Logmein from my Suse 10 Linux laptop but the Java viewer kept crashing. Despite installing JVM 1.5 the plugin was still showing v1.4.2. I eventually found the plugin directory was /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and had to create a link from
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