Thanks to Jo, super-sysadmin, who pointed me at two links that finally got me connected to our work VPN after I switched from Debian to Ubuntu. The trick is not to use the old pptp-config, but instead switch to a new package – network-manager. Brian Daley wrote up the the actual VPN Connection instructions, and […]
Dad passed me along the link to the slashdot discussion of Microsoft’s partnership with Novell. (Usually, its me sending him the slashdot link). On the face of it, the major part of the announcement concerns patent rights MS holds – specifically that it will not assert them against open source developers. The Technology Liberation Front
Scott Rosenberg draws an interesting parallel between Microsoft’s attempt to rewrite Windows, and the Bush administration’s foray into Iraq. Of course, the two aren’t morally equivalent, but its a good intellectual excercise with more than a shred of validity. Then he says, “It wasn’t executed.” Note the passive voice, correct for it: “We didn’t execute
Debian AMD64 Setup My Linux distribution of choice is Debian, although for the desktop I’d recommend Ubuntu. The server was first setup using the unofficial debian64 repositories. Since the amd64 architecture is now officially part of Debian, we moved to using an official repository. see Google groups. An unofficial repository contains /debian-amd64/ like so: #deb
Finally got frustrated that despite the obvious settings, Thunderbird was not using Firefox when I click on a link in an email on my Debian desktop. Instead it chose to launch Epiphany, despite the fact that I’d set Firefox as my browser under Gnome -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications. If you’re running into the same
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If you’ve upgraded Rhythmbox to version 0.9.5 and all of a sudden, your iPod doesn’t appear in your list of music sources, you have to enable the iPod support plugin. In the Edit menu, select Plugins… and check iPod Support. Make sure your iPod is not connected and mounted at the time, as that might
Bizarre. My self-signed SSL certificate I use to access my email using IMAP over SLL expired last week. The real significance is that we’ve been on this server for one year now. Compared to how painful working on the old Redhat 7.2 install we had back then, working with a Debian system has been a
The script below does the same and only depends on mutt (or another command line email client) being installed. A better solution would be not to email the file but to setup ssh key authentication on another server and use scp (secure copy) to send the file over. That way, your database file is transferred
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This is the second free Open Source/Free Software related magazine that I’ve run into recently. Free Software Magazine looks like its available free and its articles are not aimed squarely at the technical geek crowd. A sample from issue #10: Jump to Debian GNU/Linux: A guide to why the Debian distro is a good choice
Luckily the install is very painless and mostly automated (easier than the last windows install I did). Despite all the critiques of linux installs (and yes, it did cross my mind that a new Mac would be nice), I find myself hunting for drivers and driver CDs (especially for motherboard subsystems) than I have to