Comment Re:Not all bloggers, just those that make money (Score 1) 456
PA doesn't do the container deposit refund...
Comment Duh (Score 1) 185
I actually thought this was common knowledge for many years now. One of the biggest flawed security screens is the connect-the-dots unlock screen for Android. To really highlight that, just clean up the screen and attempt to unlock. Look at screen from the side. You should see smudges AND streaks. Those streaks can help you easily make out the direction to move in.
CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL 492
An anonymous reader writes "Lance Davis, the main project administrator for CentOS, a popular free 'rebuild' of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, appears to have gone AWOL. In an open letter from his fellow CentOS developers, they describe the precarious situation the project has been put in. There have been attempts to contact him for some time now, as he's the sole administrator for the centos.org domain, the IRC channels, and apparently, CentOS funds. One can only hope that Lance gets in contact with them and gets things sorted out."
Comment How do Satellite Repeaters Work? (Score 1) 330
I am very curious to find out how this is done. We have a repeater attached to our apartment and find it quite annoying and sometimes a little scary. A satellite dish is attached to one corner of the outside wall of our apartment. There are two "thin cables" that run to a repeater. Then another set of much thicker cables run from the repeater around our apartment wall just barely above each of our back bedrooms window (you can see the stupid things standing up and looking out the window) to a 5-10 foot pole antenna.
What truly scares me is the fact that most of the insulation has fallen off of both the receiving and especially the transmitting cables. I don't know if it's related but we can't get a good wireless signal 5 feet from most WAPs we have purchased over the years.
Should I be concerned that they have such powerful cables transmitting literally 3 feet from where I sleep?
What truly scares me is the fact that most of the insulation has fallen off of both the receiving and especially the transmitting cables. I don't know if it's related but we can't get a good wireless signal 5 feet from most WAPs we have purchased over the years.
Should I be concerned that they have such powerful cables transmitting literally 3 feet from where I sleep?
Journal Journal: Retraction
I retract my last two entries...for now.
I like Gnome again.
I don't know anything about how KDE is doing. I just don't use it.
Journal Journal: I can't fall back on Gnome either...
Okay. I don't think I am meant to have a solid experience with Windows Environments. I just got finished reading this article. Scary stuff. Not only is KDE a bungle, it appears that the latest version of Gnome is out to get me as well.
Journal Journal: Rant de KDE
Let me start off by saying KDE sucks. You don't like my last sentence, then bugger off.
Let me start this off by saying that I went into the whole idea of installing and using KDE with a very open mind. Although there is plenty good to say about KDE, there is also plenty bad.
Journal Journal: Better Late...
I haven't had much time to do anything. It's summer. Too many nice days to waste inside toiling away on router. BTW the soekris box works WONDERS.
Got rid of cable modem from Cumcostly. DSL is definately slower, but it is more stable.
More later. Back to reading.
Journal Journal: Slow Daze
Yet another slow day. Not much to do. Work is slow. Who would be working on such a FINE (sarcasm) Saturday? Well...One or two people would. After all, I am.
Journal Journal: Absence Makes the Router Go Floundering
Hrmm...Rock Linux...Almost cut it. They just need to actually release a usable version.
So back to rolling my own. Ouch. Spent way to much time working on that. The problem I am running into is getting uClibc working right w/ openssh. After that, its a matter of borking around with init scripts and getting a bootloader to play nice w/ the new roll-your-own.
Journal Journal: Rock Linux...Are you Experienced?
My overall first impression of the distribution is that it lacks some of the polished documentation that Gentoo offered. There is no explanation of where files go when you do certain steps.
Journal Journal: Linux Router Projects...AHA!!!!
So...Just as I start to think about making requests for better "roll-your-own" router distribution. I stumble upon ROCK linux in freshmeat. After reading about it, they have several "sub" distributions withing their build system. ONE of them just HAPPENS to be a "Router" distribution as can be seen at
http://www.rocklinux.org/people/pjotr/guide.download/html/ (drop the space between "O" and "A" in download [Stupid Slashdot text editor...]). Oh my. Time to try!
Journal Journal: Linux Router Projects
One of my biggest beefs with distributions today is the lack of a "minimalist" approach. Even Gentoo, a source based distribution winds up being around a 500MB install. Now that doesn't mean that you can't find minimalist distributions under 50MB. It's just that you have to do some funky install procedures to get what you want.
Journal Journal: Something Smells Kinda...Dead...
Oh...my poor, poor Netopia router. How did I hate it. It is finally starting to show signs of giving up the good fight.
I would give anything to throw an old PC at our network to replace the old Netopia beast, but to be quite honest, I just don't have the time or devotion to finding out all the funky quirks necessary to get this card or that hard drive to play nicely with linux.
Journal Journal: To Do Lists Suck
I am not a very organized person. I don't like making lists and even if I did, I very rarely look at them again. I have a big stack of papers that I keep on my desk at work. Each piece of paper is a todo list. Oh, I get the work done, but never quite the way I initially intended.
