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Posts tagged linux
New Ubuntu 9.04 Login Screen
Mar 3rd
I refrained myself from posting anything, except the food challenge, last week. Basically so that the food challenge was nice and consecutive. Most of the stuff I thought: Gee I might post about that; is no longer something I feel like writing about. But I can’t go past this one: I installed a Ubuntu 9.04
Install xauth to do X over ssh
Feb 11th
I just spent an hour trying to figure out why I could run firefox over ssh from two remote offices but not from a third. The DISPLAY variable was not set when I connected with: ssh -X user@host Turns out that xauth is not installed by default (on Ubuntu Server). I vaguely remember figuring that
Here we go again
Jan 14th
It is almost guaranteed that the upcoming Windows 7, which I’m beta testing tomorrow, the ongoing developments of OS X and the expanding percentage of X11 desktops will bring forth an abundance of articles, lists, and flame wars on how one or the other is a killer for the rest. Just like this piece. While
New Tutorial: MultiWAN
Jul 8th
I’ve just uploaded a new tutorial to the Tutorials page on MultiWAN Routing with a Linux server (direct link).
Huawei E220 Optus Wireless
Jul 4th
At work recently, to meet our growing on-the-go connection demands, we got hold of some of the Optus Wireless USB modems. The rebadged Huawei E220. In the spirit of my previous posts on Telstra NextG under Linux, I want to use these with Linux. They are natively supported in recent kernels which is great news.