Here you’ll find ramblings on Linux, including some incredibly useful scripts, config files, and links.
I had an itch for some time to create a system that would give the area’s daily news at a glance, including comics. I finally scratched that itch. Here is the result, in case anybody else has such a desire. Required software: net-mail/mpack Homepage: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/ Description: Command-line MIME encoding and decoding utilities app-text/poppler Homepage: […]
Updated slides from Texas Linuxfest and the much requested IP Block List. BE SURE TO READ THE README FILE INSIDE THE IP BLOCK LIST TAR.GZ BEFORE YOU RUN ANY OF THE SCRIPTS!!! Don’t come crying to me if you brick your server because you blocked your own hosting ranges! Updated Slides: http://jeremysands.com/Hotrodder-LAMP-TXLF16.odp IP Block List: […]
Or, for an alternate title, “How to manually set a speed on your optical drive”. I have an aging Thinkpad T61 (maybe the last one to have shipped to North America with SuSe Linux pre-installed!), and it has an optical drive that creates quite a noise and serious vibrations when running at full tilt. So […]
So you took the plunge to get a good router instead of a flaky $40 plastic box of crap. Good choice. But if you use a wireless bridge then you probably should be aware of the following problem and fix. There are numerous huge gaping security holes in the older (and possibly, depending on when […]
Several people requested the slides from my talk, “The Hotrodder’s Guide to Maximum Performance LAMP” immediately after my talk … so here it is! OpenDocument Presentation Slides
I found myself wanting to put FAHScreensaver in as a proper screensaver in Linux, partially because it looks nice but mostly because the idle detection in Linux by Folding@Home seems to be broken. So here are some steps to make that happen. These steps assume you have root or otherwise privileged access to the machine […]
So you pay for a cable/dish subscription, and want to be able to use the WatchESPN/ESPN3 website to watch live content. But for some reason it just doesn’t work on Linux. Turns out, the Adobe Flash plugin depends upon the now defunct HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to assist in mediation of DRM protected content. The […]
Simplex Talk-In Frequency (Simplex): 147.555 Local Repeaters: 145.23- | May require Tone 118.8 MHz – Operated by Mecklenburg ARS Located on Spencer Mountain, its antenna is at 1574 feet above sea level, which is almost 900 feet above average terrain. The Johnson CR1100 puts out about 100 watts ERP into a four bay commercial […]
I frequently use SysRescueCD to perform a variety of tasks. In this case I was wanting to clone a hard drive onto a new SSD. However, the default shell in SysRescueCD is zsh, and it doesn’t interpret commands how I’m use to. To change shell: chsh -s $(which bash) You will need […]
One of the niftier but lesser known features it Windows is the ability to use Alt Code Sequences to type special characters, such as accented letters. Anybody who has done work in a foreign language on a computer knows the value of having this functionality. Good news … KDE allows you to do […]