Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Category
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
I have just installed Cacti on a new FreeBSD 6.3 machine that I've been playing with, and the latest version from ports seems to be broken, displaying the error "Invalid PHP_SELF Path" when I browse to it with a web browser.
A Google search reveals that it seems to be a ...
Posted in Cacti/RRDTool, Software, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I needed to read data from a USB connected hard disk formatted as UFS by FreeBSD 6.x on an Ubuntu Linux system. As it turns out, it was easier than I expected, as Ubuntu (well, Ubuntu Server at least) has built in read-only support for UFS file systems.
$ dmesg ...
Posted in Tips and Tricks, File Systems, Ubuntu, Linux, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | No Comments »
Friday, November 30th, 2007
I recently bought a new notebook (Sony TZ27GN, which is awesome by the way :D), and something that immediately annoyed me is the sensitivity of the touchpad -- so many times I would accidentally "click" while dragging across the touchpad.
So I disabled this feature. Here's how, running Ubuntu Linux:
Posted in Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu, Hardware, Linux, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
[Insert IMHO disclaimer] This is quite possibly the worst reason for doing anything, ever:
(From the GNU su man page)
22.5.1 Why GNU su does not support the "wheel" group
(This section is by Richard Stallman.)
Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, ...
Posted in Security, GNU, Internet, Linux, Operating Systems, Rambling | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
I'm not sure exactly why but it appears that Ubuntu hasn't yet included Pidgin (formerly GAIM) in their package repository just yet. I have been running Pidgin for a while on Ubuntu (version 2.0, installed from a .deb I found floating around online) but I've been itching to upgrade for ...
Posted in Software, Pidgin, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu, Linux, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Tonight I came across an extremely useful "unofficial powertoy" for Windows for creating ISO images from CD's, and burning ISO images from Explorer shell. It's called (funnily enough) ISO Recorder and is available for Windows XP, 2003, and Vista. I've always been quite surprised that Windows doesn't just have this ...
Posted in Microsoft Windows, Tips and Tricks, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
After the death of the hard disk in my laptop this week, I thought I would use it as an opportunity to upgrade my laptop to the latest Ubuntu release, Feisty. I've always found Gnome a bit sluggish on my 1.2GHz "sub-notebook" Samsung Q30, so this time I opted to ...
Posted in Adobe Acrobat Reader, Mozilla Firefox, Software, Tips and Tricks, Linux, Ubuntu, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Today I installed and configured FreeBSD 6.2 on a Soekris Engineering net5501 (which was purchased by mail order from Yawarra Information Appliances in Victoria, who have been very helpful). It will be functioning as an office firewall/gateway. This particular unit has a 433MHZ AMD Geode Integrated Processor and 256MB of ...
Posted in Embedded systems, VMWare, Software, Tips and Tricks, Operating Systems, Hardware, FreeBSD | 2 Comments »
