Filed in archive Hacks
by Michael Hammer on September 24, 2006
While I was looking around, I found this PDF that explains how you can run Bluetooth on Linux. Its a excerpt from the book Wireless Hacks, published by O'rielly™ Media, Inc. It goes over...
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Filed in archive by Michael Hammer on September 19, 2006
Here is part 2 of the article. To read part 1, Click Here Resource Usage There are many ways both systems can communicate, share data and print across the network but one thing they both have in...
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This article is a look at the differences between administering Linux based systems and windows based systems. Network Connection. With any network system of more than one computer I strongly believe...
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Filed in archive by Michael Hammer on September 19, 2006
A new type of transistor is being developed that can enable computers 2000 times faster than they are today. Read the full article Here This transistor will run cooler and use far less heat than...
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Filed in archive by Michael Hammer on September 19, 2006
The first thing to realize when approaching a BSD or LInux system is that the - means more. -------- $df -------- is a fine command for seeing the size of your file system, however -------- $df -h...
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Filed in archive by Michael Hammer on September 19, 2006
Recently on a mailing list of IToolBox I am subscribed to, I read there is another replacement for sysvinit in the works. This looks to be very promising and is being done by the same people who bring...
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Here are a few tips I found that could be useful Let's get to the important part first - if you've just lost your data, skip past this introduction and go directly to our first tip, so you can...
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Filed in archive by Michael Hammer on September 08, 2006
When scheduling a cron job each column indicates a different time period: minute hour [Day of Month] [Month] [Day of Week] Thus, to schedule a job to run at 5 minutes after every hour: 5 * * * *...
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Filed in archive Hacks
by Michael Hammer on September 02, 2006
This teaches you to change your Flash player 7 on Xubuntu to a flash player 9. Its small, and really easy to do. 1) Make a back-up of the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat: cp...
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Filed in archive Hacks
by Michael Hammer on September 02, 2006
SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 This article, written by Jem Matzen, teaches you how to hack a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. It is a bit risky, the directions can change your operating system,...
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Filed in archive by Michael Hammer on September 02, 2006
Get faster file transfer by using 32-bit transfers on your hard drive Just add the line: hdparm -c3 /dev/hdX to a bootup script. If you use SuSE or other distros based on SYS V,...
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