I’ve been doing a lot of research this week on encryption. GPG, PGP, RSA, DSA.. all that good stuff. I’ll admit I don’t understand the extent of HOW it works. I’m mainly looking at ways to implement it without completely changing the way I interact with my machine & others. [...]
Last night I was at my brother-in-laws house babysitting the nephews and was stuck using their XP machine (yes, I disinfected afterwards). This thing was a mess! It had no antivirus installed, no malware protection/removal tools and was using IE6. I very reluctantly used it (honestly, I was afraid to “click [...]
So after an afternoon of working with ndiswrapper I found the bcm43xx-fwcutter package that I swore I looked for when I first installed. It must have been before I added livna & freshrpms. Anyway, I installed that, cut the firmware & I’m using wireless.
I’m really happy with the progress the latest kernels have made with [...]
As a preface to this post I want to apologize for not remembering who mentioned the un-wanted Gnome feature. I want to say it was someone at the recent interLUG BBQ, but I’m not sure. I mean no offense by forgetting.. I’m sure understand.
Recently I heard complaint about the nautilus file browser in [...]
As per Aarons suggestion a few posts back I ordered the Ubuntu Desktop Guide for the very cheap price of ~$8 (shipped). Apparently they only charge for the price of printing & shipping and make no profit. They also offer a Server Guide, Packaging Guide, Kubuntu and Xubuntu guides plus local editions printed [...]
So I installed SUSE 10.1 on my machine to get some experience with some other distributions. If any of you SUSE people want to drop by with some comments (read: instructions on how to use it) I’d appreciate. So far my opinion on suse (mainly with YaST): This sucks.
I setup three ‘installation sources’ [...]
A while back Gabe posted the top keywords leading to the Utah Open Source Planet. I noticed the top few were very related & then gradually became very un-related (example: malt o meal employee benefits).
What suggestions does anyone/everyone have about search engine optimization? Do you worry about it? Do you just blog [...]
Well I tried to upgrade my Linksys WRT54G wireless router using the DD-WRT firmware. I downloaded the firmware, upgraded & got a ‘upgrade successful message’ but after that all it seems to be is a brick.
I can’t access it via the web and I can’t get a DHCP assignment. It doesn’t really seem [...]
This tutorial outlines how to install XGL and Compiz desktop managers on an Ubuntu Dapper desktop. Also included are instructions for installing 3D acceleration drivers for an nVidia based graphics card.
This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) and my nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 card.
I mentioned this flash cartoon (spoof on the Mac commercials) to some of you guys at the BBQ. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. It’s hilarious.
I’m Christer, and I’m a supervillian.
