Ring Around the Rosies
As a kid, the game “Ring Around the Rosies” was where you held hands, danced around, sang a song, and then fell down. There was a lot of joy and laughter tha...
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2024
The Rizzler
Over the years, while working with youth, they’ve taught me many words. I’m still convinced “The Rizzler” is a newly found foe of the Batman.
What the Sigma?
Over the years, while working with youth, they’ve taught me many words. I’m still convinced “What the sigma” is a reference to sum sort of math equation.
Rostrum vs Restroom
At church, there are labels on the walls for the different room types –bathrooms, offices, classrooms, cultural hall, the chapel and others.
Pixar
Check out my Pixar film report on investments vs returns adjusted for inflation.
Cousins
Pirate O’s: Trader Joes swashbuckling cousin!
Huey Lewis and Chris Cornell
I just realized Huey Lewis and Chris Cornell’s voice sound eerily similar.
Intermountain H
Hey Intermountain Health, Candyland called. They want their font back.
No Smoking Sign
Wait a minute! “No smoking sign on your cigarette break”…. That never stopped any smoker that I saw. They would just go right along and smoke away. Not so ir...
Blended Stanley
Stanley, the new Blender Bottle.
10,000 Experiments
My 10,000 experiments to learn something (not 10,000 hours) goes a little something like this:
Zero
Big difference between 0-day and Day-0 in the software world!
American English > the Queen’s English
I once had a friend from the UK.
Madonna and Post Malone
Rumor has it that Madonna and Post Malone have been dating for a while and are getting married.
Deceptive Naming Techniques
Interesting Deceptive Naming Techniques
2023
How to handle hundreds of AWS account EMAILs and maybe more on the cheap
Why is this needed? There needs to be an easy-button for dealing with hundreds of emails for root access to AWS accounts. These emails are used for:
Slip N Slide
My parents were geniuses. They didn’t believe in buying crappy toys that would bust two seconds after being purchased.
80s Cereal
Back when I was a kid in the 80’s, we couldn’t afford all the cool gadgets, gizmos and toys all the other kids had. This made it very challenging for me, wh...
Maps and Atlases
Today, I bring to you a pretty incredible band you gotta check out. I’ve been listening to them for a few years, and they rock. Some of their stuff sounds a ...
Packets don’t lie
What people believe vs reality is a lot of times different. Take for example your application architecture. What was documented in the past may not be a true...
GitHub vs GitLab, A ChatGPT Showdown!
Is ChatGPT biased against GitHub when compared to Gitlab? You decide! Here is the conversation I had with our new robot overlord.
Becoming Eggscelent
I just met with Colby Meline for an informational interview. We had a wonderful conversation, and if your looking to fill a junior developer role, I would st...
Integrating Artifactory and Tests with CDK Pipelines
Building further upon my “Deploy a container to AWS in 5 lines of code” post, I wanted to add artifactory and a post-deployment test.
Get list of IAM users in an account
Quick one liner to get AWS users in an account:
Naming Confusion
If you’ve been in tech for more than a few minutes, you’ll note that naming things is always a challenge. Some that I’ve come across are:
AWS OpenSearch Serverless
Whelp, unbeknownst to me and just prior to my last post, AWS announced that OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available.
Rightsizing AWS OpenSearch
Rightsizing AWS OpenSearch. This was a recent task of mine that came up to help one of our engineering teams. The problem with rightsizing effectively is tha...
Everybody Standup
As a cloud architect, my position and responsibilities sometimes be ambiguous, so I need to gather research and information to assist in determining our stra...
Deploy a container to AWS in 5 lines of code
How easy is it to deploy your code to AWS? It’s as simple as 5 lines of code to have a completely hosted publicly available website.
2022
CDK Deployment with GitHub Actions
I’ve been diving deep into AWS CDK recently, and started with https://cdkworkshop.com/
Cross Account S3 Bucket Access
I had a use case come up recently for cross account access to grant the user in one account (Account A) to a different account’s (Account B) S3 bucket. The r...
Growing up
Growing up means wearing different footwear inside vs outside.
Unicorns
Where do unicorns come from?
Primus
Primus is a band who has been around since the late 80’s. Ever since I was introduced to them by a good friend (hey J!) I’ve always been fascinated by them, ...
AWS Opensearch and EC2 Scripts
Been working on some AWS reports lately, some for EC2 and OpenSearch to help determine costs, and what it would take to migrate to Graviton instances.
2021
No More PATs!
No more PATs! No more PATs!…well, almost. I was setting up a new local development environment, and found that that you no longer have to cache your Personal...
2020
My Productivity Tools
Health is #1
AWS EKS Kubernetes Fargate Ingress Controller ALB Certificate
Wow that title is a mouthful!
OpenBSD PF and OpenDNS
At home, I needed a way to prevent anything but OpenDNS from being used for DNS, and needed a rule that would do it in OpenBSD PF.
AWS IP Range Automation
AWS provides a list of their IP ranges for you to use when configuring whitelists, firewalls, and other things. The list is available in JSON from:
AWS Data Migration Service
I was just doing some testing of the AWS Data Migration Service (DMS), and it isn’t obvious when setting up endpoints that the public IP address of the repli...
Alt-J and Fleetwood Mac
Alt-J
2019
Summertime
My daughter has played this song a few times for me called, “Doin’ Time” by Lana Del Rey. I had to explain to her that there is a better version, and that th...
Dredg
The greatest band you’ve never heard of —Dredg
The Avalanches
This is a quick one for today.
Oysterhead
What happens when you mix some great musicians from Primus, The Police, and Phish? Is it “P-cubed?” Or “P-To-The-Three?” As much fun as those play on words w...
Amplifier, Incubus, and Infectious Grooves
Today, I discovered a new band that is surprisingly good. It’s sort of like a cross between Rush, Black Sabbath, and David Bowie. The band is called Amplifie...
Steel Pulse and Lone Ranger
Today, I am dropping two recommendations, because I missed last Friday.
Weezer
Recently, I have been collaborating with a few folks at work by sending them some music recommendations on Friday’s. One of them recommended that I go bigger...
The Hu
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Coin, Billy Corgan, Throat Singing, and The Dead South
New music Friday is back!
Netlify Alert Insecure mixed content detected
I kept getting these annoying alerts from Netlify on each deploy of my website due to mixing http content with my site that is on https.
Physwall (Science Fiction Short Story)
EL PRESIDENTE! The new, barely-elected president was celebrating her victory. She felt she was born to win this, and nothing could take this from her. All h...
It’s 2019 and Your Taking an All Day Outage????!!!!
I get a bit frustrated when I see messages from large corporations (like banks) state that their services or site will be unavailable for extended periods of...
Sunglasses for Big Heads
For me, it never fails. I go to purchase some sunglasses, put them on for a few seconds, and they look and feel good, so I go ahead and buy them. Then when ...
Defining Business Value in IT Operations and Information Security
Summary By implementing best practices for IT Operations and Information Security, businesses can increase profit by reducing costs and increasing revenue th...
Data Lifecycle Management
How to Identify and Prevent Data Sprawl
Welcome to Jekyll!
You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different wa...
New Mutt and Outlook365 eBook!
This $4.99 (USD) eBook describes a basic IMAP connection Ubuntu setup from mutt to control your Office 365 or Outlook mail. This should also work with Mac a...
2018
Unattended OpenBSD Upgrades using Ansible
Is this ideal? No…What could ever go wrong with an unattended upgrade? Run this at your own risk!
2017
Automating OS X and Microsoft Remote Desktop
This is to help automate MS RDP in Sierra (should work in other versions)
OpenBSD Xenocara Missing Resolution
This is just like I had to do in Linux, except the directory already existed. Create directory and add a file called 10-monitor.conf
Compiling cloud foundry cf client on OpenBSD
You need go version 1.7x, so it may be in stable…I went with 6.0 -current
Powershell grep
Just need this little Powershell snippet for later:
2016
Linux KDE Connect vs macOS Sierra Continuity
KDE Connect
i3wm, Compton, i3lock, xscreensaver, notifications
Using i3lock and compton seems to let dunst/notify-osd and other notifications (chrome) bleed through to the lock screen.
Using avconv to Convert Videos for Low Bandwidth (3G)
In working further on a video project, I had to re-encode (reencode?) them to a lower bitrate for slower connections.
Trim/Convert mp4v2 files using ffmpeg
I had to trim some videos to a 30 second clip, and needed to do it in a way that kept the codec. Using straight ffmpeg, I couldn’t figure out how to get an m...
Weechat, Slack and Dunst
I run weechat to integrate chat communications and protocols. I recently found the notify.py script that was invaluable for dunst notifications.
Download Brightcove Videos
I like to listen to video conferences and podcasts at higher than normal speeds. Brightcove video doesn’t allow you to speed it up, so I was wondering if I c...
Cloud Foundry Set JVM Args
In case you need to set arguments for cloud foundry application on startup: cf set-env appname-uat JAVA_OPTS '-Djavax.net.debug=ssl,handshake'
Linux: bitlbee sipe and lync (skype for business) outlook 365
I’m a big command line nerd. What can I say? And with so many ways to contact and communicate with people, what better way than to integrate everything into ...
Tmux in 30 seconds
I wanted to do some quick video tutorials on using tmux. Let me know what you think in the comments below:
2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review:: Yet another Death Star (YADS)
Well everyone, I saw the new Star Wars last night. Was it good you might ask? I would reply and say that it was good…but that is all, only good. It could hav...
Linux i3 Window Manager and Chromium Kerberos Flags
The normal method of editing the chromium.desktop file didn’t work in i3 setting the flags in chromium. I also tried some .profile settings too, which didn’t...
Grossest Halloween Ever
One specific Halloween party I remember from my youth was when we were at church with all the young’uns gathered round. I’m sure I was looking forward to hav...
Mount Luks Encrypted LVM Volume in Linux
In order to mount an luks encrypted drive in Linux (Debian Jessie)
Using curl and wget with Headers to Troubleshoot a Rest Endpoint
Had some fun today trying to reproduce an application error request to a rest endpoint with cli tools.
Compiling Mutt With Slang
I needed to compile the mutt e-mail client with slang so my colors would work correctly. This is how it’s done:
qemu & physical disk
Just messing around with quemu, and needed to install a VM easily onto a physical disk. The magic command was this:
Art
I re-created my art page. I also added these images to my blog cover image. http://www.benfrancom.com/art/ Here is “a little taste of the glory…see what it ...
Over a Year With a Standing Desk
Short version: Move regularly
2014
Mutt Offline Outlook365 With mbsync
Nitty Gritty I’ve been using the mutt e-mail client for about two years now. I love mutt. I’m a die hard Linux/BSD guy, and am in the console a lot. I love...
tnsping & sqlplus On Ubuntu 13.10
I need oracle tools to diagnose and troubleshoot. This is the easiest, and least intrusive method I’ve found: Download and extract the "u01" folder from t...
Switched site!
I switched my site over to OpenShift for hosting, and changed my theme as well. I’ll try to update soon!
Moved Book Over to GitHub
Since my “Space Captain Rowan” book is open source made with the open source software, Inkscape, I decided to move it over to github. This actually makes it...
2013
TMUX, mutt, and Vim Colors
Just some notes on setting up mutt in tmux and using vim for the default editor.
Visual Studio 2012 rptproj Error
“visual studio 2012 rptproj The application which this project type is based on was not found”
2012
More Concept Art
Alien/Mask Concept Art
Space Captain Rowan: My Open Book Project
From my page here: http://www.benfrancom.com/space-captain-rowan/
2011
2011 in Review: Patents Misuse…
2011 in Review: Patents Misused to Stifle Innovation https://t.co/hgKbSE0S
Thank you tcpdump.
Used TCP dump (again) to fix an issue today. Thanks to all the developers of this fine tool!
Xfce, Thunar and GPG
I needed a way to encrypt files with GPG via the file manager (Thunar) right-click-context-menu in XFCE.
Mythbuntu, XBMC, HDMI
Had a bit of issue re-routing all sound through HDMI. Here is the fix:
Google Chrome OS
I’m trying to build Chrome OS on Ubuntu since I can’t sleep, but git doesn’t like my proxy authentication wrapper.
Dysart Unified School District…
Dysart Unified School District saves more than $100,000 by switching computer operating systems to #Linux http://tinyurl.com/68szwlf
2010
I have 278 contributions so fa…
I have 278 contributions so far for 2010 in our IT documentation #wiki
Reconfiguring Home LAN
I took off this past week to extend the holiday, and spend time with the family. Unfortunately, I came down with a cold at the beginning of the week which...
Reconfigured #Squid #proxy. C…
Reconfigured #Squid #proxy. Came to the conclusion that #Netflix on #Wii doesn’t like proxies. Bypassed it just for Wii IP using #PF rule.
“The [ #COICA ] bill is an unc…
“The [ #COICA ] bill is an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of speech and a threat to innovation.” https://www.eff.org/n/11887
Used a friends #Droid today. T…
Used a friends #Droid today. The on screen keyboard was far better/more accurate than my experience with the #iPhone or blackberry #Storm
Repackaging our #ERP client wi…
Repackaging our #ERP client with #AdminStudio for #Zenworks
#OpenBSD 4.8 released Nov 1st!…
#OpenBSD 4.8 released Nov 1st! http://www.openbsd.org/
Next Wed. I will be presenting…
Next Wed. I will be presenting on #Inkscape an open source #vector #graphics program. Anyone is welcome to attend! http://is.gd/gaGkZ
Setting up #kvm #virtual #Linu…
Setting up #kvm #virtual #Linux server today.
Tired of Viruses & Malware? Wa…
Tired of Viruses & Malware? Want a better & open computing environment? Newest version of #Ubuntu #Linux is here: http://www.ubuntu.com
Updating #FreeBSD Hadn’t notic…
Updating #FreeBSD Hadn’t noticed before since I usually call fastest_cvsup from another command. Result: “Speed Daemons” lol #CVSup #BSD
Remotely configuring several #…
Remotely configuring several #Cisco ASA’s.
Finishing e-mail migration fro…
Finishing e-mail migration from hosted platform to internal #GroupWise system. #Novell
Microsoft’s Ballmer: Android…
Microsoft’s Ballmer: Android Isn’t Really Free — You Have To Pay Us For Patents http://t.co/Uloap9P via @techcrunch
IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM: ht…
IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM: http://bit.ly/bq8E3w
ZCM Windows XP Power Scheme Distribution
(This is a cool solution I posted to the Novell website)
Working on some bundles in Zen…
Working on some bundles in Zenworks Configuration Management #zcm
Learn something new every day:…
Learn something new every day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidus_%28punctuation%29 #Solidus #Mathematics
Testing Twitter OAUTH
This is a test.
Is it overly nerdy of me to us…
Is it overly nerdy of me to use #RequestTracker (RT) at home for personal use? I just finished setting it up w/ #Postfix and #GMAIL #SMTP.
Russian Soda Commercial using …
Russian Soda Commercial using #Blender3D by ARt DDs - http://www.blendernation.com/russian-soda-commercial-by-art-dds/
#awk one liner for parsing str…
#awk one liner for parsing string in a file between parentheses: awk -F ‘[()]’ ‘{print $2}’
Today I started changing our d…
Today I started changing our disaster recovery plan. It involves an on-site hot spare with a large #RAID array, #Linux and #RSYNC
Just recovered a deleted photo…
Just recovered a deleted photo off my #SD card using #PhotoRec It’s a great tool for recovering files and photos. http://is.gd/eaV8R
Linux and Soekris Presentation Follow Up
My presentation this past week on Soekris and Linux went pretty well. There were 9 of us there, and we stepped through an Ubuntu server installation. We had ...
btrfs
One of the many great things about Linux is choice. You can choose from a vast array of file system types to keep your data on. You can even slice and dice...
Oracle, Sun, & MySQL
From Eben Moglen: I believe that Oracle sees clearly the nature of its business interests. It knows that MySQL is much, much more valuable to it alive than ...
Sharp MFP & VNC
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Adding ACL’s in an ASA right now.
Currently I’m adding some ACL’s in one of our Cisco ASA’s.
Change Management
Doing some further research on change management.
Netflix on the Wii
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REMUS: Transparent high availability for Xen
I read about an interesting tool that is being integrated into Xen that offers high availability. It is developed by The University of British Columbia. Our...
Just imported my old blog
I finished importing my blog from blogger.com. That was painless.
Princeton scientist makes a leap in quantum computing
Princeton scientist makes a leap in quantum computing
Post: Quote
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. Mark Twain
Post: Notice
A notice displays information that explains nearby content. Often used to call attention to a particular detail.
2009
Google Chrome on Ubuntu 9.10 Linux
As Chrome was just released for Linux, I just got it installed on my workstation.Screenshot:<img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:ce...
Motorola Netopia 3000 (Netopia 3347-02) PPPoE & Routed Subnet
I had some troubles with some newer Netopia modems and configuring them in routed subnet mode. The modem wouldn’t pass any outside traffic to our Cisco route...
OpenBSD 4.6 host on KVM in Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit AMD
<img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 181px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com...
Informative Quote on Using Open Source
<blockquote>“A lot of people have laughed at me. Theysay that they buy their software onlyfrom very large companies and thatthese companies will be aro...
FreeNAS
I was doing some research on some open source Network Attached Storage (NAS) utilities earlier this morning, and came across FreeNAS. It is based on FreeBSD...
Data/Communication Cabling Rates in AZ.
Just an informative post for anyone looking for rates on premise data/com cabling in the Phoenix area. I just spoke to a highly trusted source, and in the v...
Disable XRandR
aticonfig --set-pcs-str="DDX,EnableRandR12,FALSE"
GroupWise 7 SLED 11
I had to add this onto the startup script for GroupWise to function better on SLED:<blockquote>/opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise.sh -jvm=-Dawt...
Linux, Bash Find Files Modified Between Date Range
I just found this handy reference site here:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-productivitytips.htmlHere was my script that find...
OES 2 SP 1 Linux NCPCON Clear Connections
Just some notes for ncpcon:ncpcon connection list grep usernamencpcon connection clear connection#
OES Linux NSS Snapshot Automation Command Line SLES 10
<img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 100px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com...
Linux Project Management Utilities
I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for project management tools for Linux, and this one caught my eye: It is GPL, and I must say looks very slick. They have...
Linux Get Hardware Serial Number From Command Line
I found this nugget here, and it saved me some time getting some serial numbers straightened:<blockquote>dmidecode grep -i serial&...
SLES 10 SP2 FreeNX Installation Tutorial
<img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 100px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com...
TinyURL
http://www.tinyurl.com is great at making long URL’s (web addresses) small and easy. Check this one out:http://tinyurl.com/Benjamin-Francom
iPrint Canon ImageRunner 2022i
<img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 64px; height: 64px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_...
SLES 10 SP 1 OES 2 LUM Enable User Broken
<img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 116px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com...
Blackberry 8900 Wipe Address Book and Resync
One of our users purchased the blackberry 8900 today, and the address book wouldn’t sync. In order to wipe it and repopulate from the server, go to the addr...
CACLS
User rights ACL’s on windows xpcacls “C:windowstemp.” /e /g EVERYONE:Fcacls c:windowstemp /e /g everyone:f
2008
Join Multiple mpg Files
cat file01.mpg file02.mpg file03.mpg > alltogether.mpgOther notes:mpegdemux -d -s 0xe0 source.mpg dst.m1vmpegdemux -d -s 0xc0-0xdf -b audio_##.mpa source....
FLV to MPG Script
#!/bin/bashffmpeg -i “$1” -ab 128000 -ar 44100 -b 200000 -s 320x240 -ac 2 “$1”.mpg
SLES 10 x86_64 Subversion
At work I needed to install subversion for the programming department. The problem I ran into was that SLES 10 does not include subversion in their reposito...
HP Care Pack Registration and Firefox=BROKEN
I’ve tried to register a hardware care pack with HP, and it doesn’t work in Firefox. This is the error:error ‘80004005’ <p> /csn/csnfw/system/sys_shel...
Openswan debug “no connection named tunnelipsec”
Notes on openswan troubleshooting and various sundry rotary girders:/usr/sbin/ipsec auto –add “connection name” #before using –up/usr/sbin/ipsec auto –up tun...
Openswan & Cisco ASA 5505
I successfully connected a Cisco ASA 5505 and Openswan using IPSec VPN recently at work. I’ll have to post the configuration files when I have time.
wsname.exe
Nice tool to change computer names in M$ Windoze.
PDRVGen.exe
This little utility creates printer definition files from your installed printers. Works sweet to replace the regular drivers for NDPS since they sometimes ...
XEN SLES 10 SP 2 Networking
I’m testing out XEN, and am trying to figure out the best way for networking. Above is what I am attempting.
openSUSE resolution not filling screen
Found the fix here.<blockquote> The available solution is in the openSUSE 10.3 Release Notes:Older Intel Graphics ChipsOlder Intel graphics chips are s...
Ubuntu Hardy Heron Review
Updated to Ubuntu Hardy Heron last night, and it went nice and smooth. Everything came up afterwards, and the only differences I’ve noticed are:Speed: It se...
Ubuntu Minimall Installation (mini.iso)
I didn’t realize that Ubuntu had mini.iso’s like debian until I had a laptop that required a net boot.https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
Cygwin RSYNC ssh hang in “pull” mode
I’m trying to workaround cygwin hanging when using rsync over ssh in a “pull” mode. I used to have it set up to where each box would “push” to a central ser...
Squid NCSA Auth JVM Java Applet Problem
After setting up ncsa_auth in squid (FreeBSD 6.3), Java applets wouldn’t run. I found this link that solved it.<blockquote>You can solve this by creat...
Yet Another Java HylaFax Client (YajHFC)
I was having troubles setting up WHFC, and JHylaFax didn’t have all of the cover page variables I needed, so I took to looking around for a new HylaFax clien...
2007
OCS Inventory NG and “Invalid Command ‘PerlSetEnv’
Just add ‘perl’ in:/etc/sysconfig/apache2Under the APACHE_MODULES section.Done!
Why OpenOffice.org Makes Sense (with references)
Dear [Boss], <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" lang="en-US">I’ve answered your questions further on down, but let me preface these questions with an expl...
NetWare 6.5 User Rights Listing
I had a hard time finding something that would list what a user has access to in eDirectory. I then found out about trustee.nlm. It is already part of the N...
Computer Associates Brightstor Arcserve 11.5 Linux
I couldn’t find anywhere on the web that showed how to reset the CAROOT password for this version of ArcServe. After speaking with customer service, just ru...
Playing Jericho with Real Media codecs on Linux in Mplayer
Mplayer is my default media player, and I recently caught an episode of “Jericho.” CBS boasts that you can watch their full episodes online. I have had the...
Tweaking Hylafax 4.3.0 on OpenSUSE 10.2
I’ve just put a Hylafax server in production, and now am in process of fixing little issues. Some things that have cropped up are:Resizing legal faxes to le...
CUPS Error, “w2 invalid pers”
I was setting up an HP LJ4Plus as a printer for Hylafax in OpenSUSE 10.2, and received the error:w2 invalid persAll it needed was a driver change in CUPS. ...
Hylafax Custom Coverpage
I had a dicken’s of a time trying to come up with a good way to customize the Hylafax coverpage for our company. I was able to get partially there from modi...
OpenSUSE 10.2: Hylafax Unable to deduce DTE-DCE speed
Just wanted to post this for those anyone having trouble with setting up Hylafax, and get the above message.I was able to specify the modem speed by guessing...
How My Desktop Has Changed Over Time
I’ll preface this by saying that I made some of the icons you see on the pic and stuff (the Nacho one, and the one just above him). This is my home PC runni...
FreeBSD MPD PF Squid (with Qwest Actiontec Modem)
If you understand the title, you truly are a geek….just like me.Since I am an uber geekster of the computer variety, I like to setup firewalls, operating sys...
Tar to archive over ssh
[[Modified]]Does anyone know how to tar and gzip an archive over ssh so it ends up compressed on the remote host?For example, boot from Knoppix to rescue som...
Ubuntu Edgy Eft
Jan 20 2007…Just wanted to update this. The days I was trying to do this, the Ubuntu servers must’ve been overloaded. I tried it again, and got everything ...
2006
Mapping Drives in Cygwin
Map drive cygwin:I had a dilemma whilst executing cron jobs on a box that needed some NetWare drives mapped. (This ought to work for Windows mapped drives a...
Novell Linux OES SP2 Part Deux
The trick is to install the Novell services (i.e. NSS) during install time, rather than after.This worked, and we’ve got RSYNC working on traditional OES Net...
4412D+ Template Update
Since this was at one point the most accessed entry on my blog, I’ve updated it with more templates.See here:http://hachijuhachi0.blogspot.com/2006/06/4412d-...
Novell OES Linux SP2
I did a minimal install of this NOS, and things went great. When I went to add some Novell services it choked hard. Not only did it have me rotate CD’s lik...
SSH Problem
I kept getting this error when trying to port forward on an ssh connection to a remote server:“channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection timed out”I...
RAD Mobile
I found some old stuff from my senior project. Notice the Autobots logo? It is so sweet. The project consisted of sending IP strings over a cell phone to ...
Vi
You know you’ve been using vi too long when you start pressing “esc” to try and save your work in Notepad.
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Test<p>This is a test from my linux boxen using “Blog Entry Poster”</p><p>June 30th 11:18</p>
Huh?
There was a device someone read the name to me. It was supposed to be “Ethernet Broadband Router.” They said, “Ethanol Baudband Rooter.”I found it funny.-La...
Google Personalized Home Page
I was using my.yahoo for a while, and I didn’t like it a whole lot. I tested the Google personalized home page, and it works even better.
4412D+ Template
10/25/06Here is a template for all for the Avaya 4412D+ handsets.Blank One:BLANK.PDFBLANK.SVGORIGINAL.PDFORIGINAL.SVGThe SVG’s should be editable if you down...
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