I am configuring a CentOS 5.2 box to act as a gateway. After doing the initial configuration I want the ADSL connection that I configured not to try and start when doing a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart or service network restart. This may seem like a no brainer but...
I've just been nosing around the Fedora 8 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions script and noticed a call to a utility named ipcalc. Seeing as I usually spend quite some time trying to figure out how to calculate the correct subnets for a given subnet mask...
I have just been trying to find the good old adsl-setup command in Fedora 8. No good! system-config-network was a no go either. No option to configure a pppoe connection. pppoe-setup looks like it has replaced adsl-setup. Problem solved move along. Nothing to see...
I got this error "error:java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError" on the status bar of Firefox 3.0 while attempting to load Gallery 2's Java Upload Applet. Looks as though the IcedTea Java plugin is not compatible with the Upload Applet The fix: sudo apt-get remove...
I had to test a console cable to see if it was indeed a console cable. The piece of equipment I was connecting to was outputting a garbled console leading me to wondering if I had a bad cable or a bad piece of equipment. Using the serial-console howto at...
I wanted to try and install the latest version of the GIMP So I googled and found this blog with a nice gimp svn download and installation script named gimpsvn.sh cd ~/gimp-build My notes: Do make a directory such as gimp-build and cd into it mkdir ~/gimp-build cd...
filelight: kde application gives a really cool overview of how much and where you are consuming disk space. boabab: gnome/gtk application
Microsoft Works (wps) Documents aren't recognized by the native OpenOffice.org version of OpenOffice. Update: Ubuntu has a libwps package that provides the functions to convert wps files and the Ubuntu version of OpenOffice will open a WPS natively (thanks to Andrew...
I am currently investigating setting up a connection with the following features: Linux 2.6.x Base System IPSec Compliant Gateway NAT on the Gateway to hide internal addresses from the remote network http://www.sherman.ca/archives/2004/11/21/linux-26-ipsec-vpns/...
The scenario: Your path environment is similar to "/home/user/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games" You have a binary in your path such as /home/user/bin/putty which you delete hoping to use the same binary further down the path...