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PXE Boot With Tomato
In an effort to consolidate some of the machines at home I have switched from using a 386 based pc with IPCop as the main router to using Tomato Firmware on the Linksys WRT54G(L) wireless router. The Tomato firmware is … Continue reading
Off Site Backup Now, Before It’s Too Late
Recently, Francis Ford Coppola appealed for the return of his computer after several had been stolen in a break in. He had lost the only copies of up to 15 years of important personal and professional data since his backup … Continue reading
Your Pictures in XScreensaver
It isn’t obvious how to get XScreensaver to use the image directory of your choice in many distributions. Distort, Flipscreen3d, GLSlideshow, MirrorBlob, Slidescreen and perhaps others can be controlled by using your favourite editor and creating a file in your … Continue reading
Denying Outbound Calls with Trixbox (formerly Asterisk@Home)
I am not trying to be mean (BOFH), there are sometimes good reasons for blocking outgoing calls. Especially when you are paying the phone bill. When I worked for a hotel the telecom consultants had a long list of dialing … Continue reading
Wireless is finally working on my Averatec 3700!
Huzaa, it works! I spent alot of time trying to get Ubuntu (both dapper and edgy) to work with the wireless adapter in my Averatec 3700 laptop/notebook. The rt2500 802.11b/g chipset is well supported in more recent linux distributions so … Continue reading
