Tag Archives: Linux

Brief and very light tutorial on manipulating Linux’s QoS parameters.

Life at 56K finally is bearable. I was able to type away at a remote shell with a 20MB download pounding along in another window.

After all those “Linux doesn’t work! I’m going home to mammy!” stories here’s a refreshingly positive story about Linux, and also a link to a great apt-rpm repository. Here’s some brief instructions on getting it working. Lots of games and stuff available 🙂

Yaay! Linux drivers for my modem have been released for Red Hat 9 and other distributions! Should be online tonight! Thanks Ruairi!

Justin Mason looks at using VNC for his desktop. His machine is too noisy so what better way to get a quiet PC?
I used to use VNC but it was too slow. I think you’d probably need a switched network with decent network cards and switches. I have decent network cards, but only a hub.

If you use Kmail, then you should be aware of a serious usability error that exists in it. I’ve only tested this in Kmail 1.5 which ships with Red Hat 9. Look at my ILUG post for a detailed description.
Briefly, pressing a key will jump to a folder with a name that starts with that letter.
The problem is, when you have “d” pressed to delete multiple mails..

Carol has lots of tutorials on her site. Including stuff on red eye removal and a “new user” introduction to the GIMP!

Bah! I installed RH 9 at home and now I can’t get my software modem working! The hcfpci driver refuses to compile giving some obscure GCC error about parameters! So, I’m typing this in an internet cafe, otherwise I’d provide links and debug messages for you to digest. Hopefully updated drivers will be forthcoming. In the meantime I’ll have to pry the rpm open and hack the source to get it to compile..
So, if I promised to look at b2 bugs for you this weekend, it probably won’t happen, sorry! I’ll be back on Monday!

This package looks like the nfs for Symbian code I stumbled across a few weeks ago.
The docs look simple enough. Run an app on your phone, run a server on your PC, although it doesn’t explain how to mount your phone on the PC filesystem. I’ll have a look at that over the weekend.

It’s near impossible as far as I can tell! Well, not easily done anyway!
Here’s how I managed to get bluetooth working somewhat in Red Hat 9.

1. I installed the bluez-utils and bluez-libs rpms using apt-get.
2. I followed Tom’s advice in his lengthy article. I didn’t have to recompile the kernel however as it contained the rfcomm module already.
3. I was able to connect the phone to the PC through /dev/rfcomm0 by using rfcomm connect 0 <my phone code>. I tried to use that device to create a ppp link by doing /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/rfcomm0 10.0.0.1:10.0.0.2 but pppd returned immediately, and Syslog reported: “pppd[31912]: Serial line is looped back.”

Bah! I’m going home!

I mentioned the GURU LABS review of Red Hat 9 before but what I forgot to say is that it should be required reading for anyone new to this release of Red Hat 9. It has such a wealth of information! It links to this article on adding eyecandy to Red Hat 9 that explains how to change the cursors in your GUI.
The download page has many useful RPMs, including one for mp3 playback, and some very nice looking screensavers!
You really should install apt-rpm too and then apt-get update; apt-get upgrade as there’s already been a number of updates to Samba, Sendmail, Evolution and other packages. Then grab Synaptic by doing apt-get install synaptic and make your package management life much easier!
If you want mp3 playback easily, it’s also available through apt, just apt-get install xmms-mp3 and launch xmms!
Here’s a long slashdot discussion on the new release.