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Do It Yourself "Cloud"

Back in the day I ran a few little public nameservers, and I had arrangements with friends where we were secondaries for each other. No big deal, if anyone went offline there were enough of us to fill in. We added ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  21 Nov 2009

Linux Bug #1: Bad Documentation

The Internet and Google enable laziness in FOSS development because they make it too easy to abdicate the job of proper documentation to "The community." Telling users and potential contributors to use Google, mailing lists, and forums is not ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Cloud is Just Another Word for "Sucker"

Well here we are on the threshold of this very thing, and now the geeks are complaining and warning against it. Why? Because we like to be perverse? Well maybe that is part of it. But for me the biggest problem is trust. ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Skype,  Google Inc.

Life on the Bleeding Edge: Installer Fails in Fedora and Ubuntu

I downloaded the latest Ubuntu Studio, 9.10, in hopes that I would have a better experience than the last time I tested it. Which was the first or second release, I don't remember; it was still a baby then and needing some work. I used the alternate ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  11 Nov 2009

Linux Remote Networking over the Internet (part 3)

Guarding the Gates Carla Schroder Tuesday, November 10, 2009 01:48:22 PM This is easy, just changing a few lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Port 2022 PermitRootLogin no AllowUsers [usernames or groups separated by spaces] ListenAddress 192.1 ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  11 Nov 2009

Making Multi-Channel Firewire Music With Linux

The FFADO drivers are not included in 64Studio, which is what I use for audio production. They plan to in their final 3.0 release. So I'm going to grab the tarball from FFADO and build it from source. What fun, just ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  AMD,  Wikipedia

Getting a Scanner to work in Linux

I have a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet 3050, their budget all-in-one printer, copier, fax, and scanner. According to the device matrix in the open source HPLIP project this machine is completely supported in Linux. However, I have a different definition of ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hewlett-Packard,  Google Inc.

Tutorial: More Linux Remote Networking Tips and Tricks (part 2)

Setting It Up Carla Schroder Wednesday, October 21, 2009 01:41:05 PM You can use an existing key or create a new pair. Don't give the new key pair a passphrase, and never ever share your private key-- guard it just like you would a ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  22 Oct 2009

Darl Is Out, Farewell Master Gamer

I think Darl more than earned his pay. He sued his own customers, Daimler-Chrysler and Autozone in 2003. These suits went nowhere and Daimler-Chrysler was dismissed in 2004. Also in 2003 he went after Novell and IBM, and both suits are still dragging ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Daimler,  Chrysler,  IBM,  AutoZone, Inc.,  Novell, Inc.

Fun Brain Games and Geek Toys

My favorite card game is Krypto. Eons ago when I was a youngun, you could buy this game from Edmund Scientifics, and can still find it on Amazon and other online nooks and crannies. The game is simple: there is a deck ...

From CARLA SCHRODER, LXer,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Nintendo

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