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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Well, I’ve been playing around with Xubuntu Linux for a while now and I have been making extensive use of SSH. If you haven’t heard of SSH yet, here’s a quick rundown from wikipedia:
SSH is typically used to log into a remote machine and execute commands, but it also supports tunneling, forwarding arbitrary TCP ports and X11 connections; it can transfer files using the associated SFTP or SCP protocols.
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Coming from Windows a few months ago, one of the things I took for granted was the backspace key being a shortcut key for the back button on my web browser - Firefox.
Once I shifted over to Ubuntu, this shortcut was missing from a default installation. If you want to replicate how the Firefox web browser on Windows has mapped the backspace key to go back a page on linux based systems, do the following:
The change should be immediate, so if you now press the [Backspace] key, it functions as a back button. I must have done this a several times when I was installing and reinstalling distributions as I messed around with my installations, but kept forgetting how to do it. :)
So this is more a quick note than any ground breaking hack.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
After a couple of months stint with using Fedora as the Desktop OS for my home workstation, I’ve decided, to come running back to Xubuntu.
There’s no particular reason, aside from productivity. As much as I’d like to consider myself versatile, I _really_ don’t have the time to mess around with another OS at home.
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
This is basically just a follow up from my last post which is now noise - I’m sorry - Here are a few clarifications:
Here’s a quick example:
set input-meta on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
… *snip*
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Having recently converted my office and home workstations to Xubuntu, I’ve decided to dive in a little deeper and see what the Red Hat backed Fedora 7 is like.
There are a few reasons for my decision to give Fedora a try.
The first is just genuine interest - I like the thought of trying new things and just wanted to see what a non-debian-based distro is link.
The second - which is probably the primary reason for me doing this is because the Dedicated Servers we are leasing in the States are all running Red Hat Enterprise.
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Well, it’s been a while since my last post, previously explained in a previous entry. I’ve managed to fix things and found out a thing or two as to why wireless support broke in feisty fawn, while still working properly in Edgy Eft.
It drove me “up the wall” (as we’d say here in colloquial Australia), but I was determined to get my system working and so I did.
Check out these posts for more information - I’ve broken it up so that you aren’t flooded with a big essay on completely different, but somewhat related subject matter:
- Linux RT818X driver crashes 2.6.20.x kernel
- How I got my Belkin f5d6001 wireless card running on Feisty Fawn
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Note: there’s been a lot of traffic to this page, and just out of interest, I’d like to know if this piece of advice has actually helped anyone out, so if it has aided you in your quest to wireless connectivity, has led you through yet another wild goose-chase, or is flawed in any manner or form, please leave a comment and I’ll make adjustments as required.
I was determined to get my wireless card up and running - There are reports out there that belkin f5d6001 cards have worked without incident for others, so I should be able to figure out WHY there are so many incidents that prevent me from running mine.
After trawlling through the internet I find out about ndiswrapper. I install ndiswrapper and as suggested use the drivers provided with my card. “belkin f5d6001″ - the driver gives you enough hope in a sense that it detects your network card, but does not detect anything else (no access points, NOTHING! but you can attempt to configure it).
After days of trying this, that and other different ways of setting up wireless configurations, I came across some post saying that you could also use rtl8180 windows drivers with ndiswrapper to make things work. I was desperate so I dug a little deeper remembering that I had reviewed the blacklist and found a bug report about Linux r818x drivers. This confirmed some things for me and so I downloaded the windows driver from realtek website.
Here are the following steps I did to make things happen:
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Exasperated, exhausted and highly irritated, I hoarsely whisper a rhetorical question toward my monitors with acid dripping from my fangs:
Why does my wireless Card work on Edgy but not on Feisty?!
(oh! …and every other word was an F* word)
After doing some idle research, I found that according to a bug report in the ubuntu launchpad, the r818x linux driver that is used and works well in the 2.6.17 kernel causes kernel 2.6.20 to crash!