Sunday, June 28th, 2009
The kitchen computer project will be powered by a black ASUS EeeBox B203! The ancient 800 MHz (VIA Samuel 2 crap CPU) Mini-ITX machine I use for the prototype is very slow, has issues with the USB network adapter (NetGear WG111v3, ID 0846:4260), and freezes occasionally so it will be ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
My current daytime setup is for various reasons a Windows XP installation with Ubuntu Jaunty running inside VirtualBox. I use Microsoft Windows for Outlook, SQL Navigator and some web browsing while using the Linux installation for development. This morning I started Firefox in Windows XP, changed focus to VirtualBox or ...
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
I have updated a couple of my Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) installations to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) but not yet my primary laptop. I was about to do that tonight (isn't starting something at 22:00 a grea idea?) but the upgrade procedure showed me the message below, making me postpone the upgrade ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
I've been running gld for more than two months now and it is truly efficient. The current statistics say:
# of entries in the database : 16077
# of one hit entries in the database : 15100
Oldest entry in database : 65 days ago
This means that almost 94% of the attempts to ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I had to mess around a lot with the upgrade, and when the upgrade was finished at last, the reboot failed so I had to get physical access to the machine. Strangely enough, when I rebooted it once more it worked fine!
The main issue with the upgrade was problems with ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The network owner where I have my current server is not very good at maintaining proper DNS and reverse-DNS records (!), and I consider it to be really important for mail servers to have those properly configured. In order to workaround this issue I'm now renting a Virtual Private Server ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part five.)
Yesterday I noticed a problem with ssh on the Dell Inspiron 1525: I could ssh in any direction between the laptop and other computers on the same wireless network, but not to a computer outside of the wireless network. The issue was already reported ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
(Continued from Highway to Dell, part four.)
My wife upgraded the Dell Inspiron 1525 to Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") the other day and as far as I know, everything works fine after correcting the No Sound After Distribution Upgrade issue. I still haven't upgraded my Thinkpad T60p from Ubuntu 7.10 and ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I get ssh login attempts almost daily, mostly from DSL, asian or eastern european IP addresses but this one caught my eye:
Illegal users from these:
75.101.221.220 (ec2-75-101-221-220.compute-1.amazonaws.com): 210 times
admin/password: 16 times
test/password: 15 ...
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