Some of you might take it lightly, some of you might take it seriously, and encrypt your wireless network, block the network to specific MAC addresses, etc. This guy had one special treat for his neighbors. Maybe I should try that too…
To be able to fax a text file containing Unicode (especially non-English characters), a suggestion can be found in this mailing-list post. I could not use it, though, because my Unicode text had ASCII-art-tables, and the printing process forced using variable font. I was unable to convert the text to an encoding (using iconv or…
Per the last post in this thread, I have created a startup script to an Oracle setup I’ve had. The script is rather simple – you “su –” to the Oracle user, and you just start the DB. Same goes for shutting it down. I have tested it and it worked well. Due to the…
Installing older Linux systems on new hardware is always fun. SuSE 8 especially might be tricky, due to several assumptions during install: 1. The install kernel is the Single CPU version. However, on an SMP system, the Single CPU kernel would not be actually installed. 2. HP assume you have a floppy with your server….
Let’s assume we have a file containing lines such as this: first last one two three four five If we write a simple script to deal with each line in a turn, we would write something like this: for i in `cat file`; do echo $i; done This would echo, however, each word at its…
I’ve had a problem for a long while now configuring Xgl on my Dual-Head setup, using GLX and fglrx driver. I have been using 1280×1024 on both of my screen, so my total resolution was 2560×1024. When using Dual-Head setup in “Wide Desktop” mode (via the option Option “DesktopSetup” “horizontal” in the Device section in…
