Firefox 3 on Debian.
July 29, 2008
All right, All right, the title should be Iceweasel on Debian. Call a rose by any other name and it would be just as hard to install on Debian. I think I am beginning to regret giving up Fedora. Iceweasel...
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sshfs debian
July 25, 2008
Thought I would play around with SSHFS, which allows you to mount a folder on a remote computer locally using SSH. Obviously that would be much more convenient than using SFTP and would be a hell-ova-lot safer than using No...
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A soaked e51
July 23, 2008
On saturday, i was playing at being a plumber. Not because I wanted to save a few bucks but my regular plumber was not available because his own house had been flooded. No his pipelines didn't explode. There was a...
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/etc/alternatives mess
July 18, 2008
Fedora insists on not shipping Sun Java because it didn't fall into the open source definition of free. Something that can be downloaded free of charge isn't free. Even if the source code is shipped free of charge, that still...
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Mythical Sounds
July 16, 2008
The webserver and the web browser aren't the only things that caused trouble. Alsa also played it's part. Sound on Fedora has always been one big headache. They kept making too many changes too often. We had to change from...
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Getting Aquainted with Debian.
July 14, 2008
It's been a couple of weeks since I switched to Debian after being a loyal Fedora/Redhat user for many, many years ago. It hasn't been smooth sailing all together. There were few teething problems here and their. First up I...
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Excessive Packaging ( IK Com and APM)
July 11, 2008
Each of the bedrooms, the sitting room the TV lobby and of course my study are all wired with cat 6 cabling. There are 8 access points in all which includes the gate (for an IP camera, which I am...
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Good Bye Fedora, Hello Debian.
July 8, 2008
Having given up on Fedora it was time to decide what my new operating system will be. Initially I settled upon OpenSuse. All linux distributions are essentially the same except for the installer and the system administration apps. But if...
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Giving up on red hat / Fedora.
July 7, 2008
Many years ago, Red Hat released version 6.2 of their Linux Distro. That was round about the time that I gradually started being a fulltime linux user. I had installed different flavours on my computer before but never really got...
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