Category Archives: linux

Musings and ramblings about linux :)

Discovering Drivel :)

I am just experimenting with Drivel, an gnome online/offline blog editor for Linux If all goes well this should appear online! edit: this should test the updates….

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identi.ca – google talk / pidgin problems fixed

Just a quicky,  to get identi.ca working with pidgin: 1.  Enter your gmail address in identi.ca 2.  In pidgin add update@identi.ca as a buddy 3.  You will get an authorise request (or 4 ) just authorise the first one and … Continue reading

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Openmoko Freerunner WPA Wifi howto

‘ello again, after some head scratching and beer drinking and lots of trial and mainly error I have now worked out how to get my Freerunner to connect to my WPA network at home This is a very rough guide … Continue reading

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Ubuntu SSL Woes

If you are following an Ubuntu SSL tutorial and are wondering why apache2-ssl-certificate seems to be missing you can find the work around here : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/77675/comments/15 I hope they fix that for Gutsy

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Of DRM and Libraries

In a fit of quite shocking lazyness, I give you are reply to a post on the LUGRadio forums where I am replying to Chris (CBHWorld) who I met at LRL (Hi) with a hat that I am most envious … Continue reading

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The Linux Codecs Issue

Just read this article and this sort of thing really annoys me. It has been solved already by Fluendo you can legally purchase your codecs from them for 28 euros. Job done, now can we move on from the codecs … Continue reading

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Apple, more “evil” than Microsoft?

A tad emotive title so I will quickly admit the following :- – I have been a Windows user. – I have used OS X intermittently, mostly when trying to get the Macbook for a friend. – I have experienced … Continue reading

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Radius, LDAP and Ubuntu

So off on my adventure of building an LDAP based corp network I come to my next challenge I want to have all my network authentication done with Radius, and I want it to backend onto the LDAP directory. The … Continue reading

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PAT testing….

Well we have someone doing PAT tests in the office and I am not sure he is paying attention, sure he refused to test my heavy duty power over Ethernet adapter (16A commando to an RJ45 :) “er you don’t … Continue reading

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LDAP GOSA Pain and Suffering :)

It works! It finally works! Well it is installed apt-get install gosa was pretty straight forward, so onward to adding the schema files to openldap, this is where I hit problems.. I was following the instructions for Debian at : … Continue reading

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