All Posts Mentioning ‘GNU/Linux’

GeoIP for Wordpress Counterize Plugin

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

This is a bit of an esoteric subject, but if you use Wordpress and are looking for a good statistics plugin, try Counterize II. If you’re looking for an even better statistics plugin, keep reading.
Steffen Forkmann’s Counterize II plugin for Wordpress is pretty good, but as of 2.13, it stopped logging IPs. For this reason, [...]

Howto Install FreeBSD 7.0 from a USB Stick

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Well, maybe a CD is good enough for you. Maybe you have some CD-R’s lying around, and want to burn them. I don’t know. Or, maybe you’ve tried the default UNetBootin but then the FreeBSD installer didn’t recognize your Realtek ethernet card. Well, whatever. Here’s how to install FreeBSD 7.0 from a Flash drive.
I’ll be [...]

Printing from Linux at Lehigh University

Monday, September 1st, 2008

If you need to set up a printer on Windows or Mac OS X, you can just go to lehigh.edu/printers and run one of the VisualBasic or applescript scripts, respectively. Here are instructions for Linux. And immediately below is a rant on why you printers are lame.
And you thought CD-ROMs and traditional disk drives were [...]

DNC & Obama: Linux not Part of “Change”

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

“If you’re not completely appalled, you haven’t been paying attention.” - A well-known bumper sticker
Well, that’s not entirely relevant to what I’m about to talk about, but I think it’s a sweet bumper sticker. This blog is a conglomeration of disparate ideas between which I draw vague connections that may not necessarily make sense to [...]

Wireless Linux at Lehigh University

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

I tried for a few days to get Lehigh’s 8021X authentication to work with my wireless setup, but the wireless network kept disassociating before the handshake finished. I asked around and a bunch of people said that Ashutosh’s instructions worked perfectly. I tried them verbatim, except without ndiswrapper (yuck!) The Intel iwlwifi driver has been [...]

UT Austin Restricted Wireless with Linux NetworkManager

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

UT Austin currently has command line instructions on how to use their secured wireless network through wpa_supplicant. That’s all well and good if you’re a computer science student using Gentoo with some time to kill, but suppose you are a person with a laptop who wants to go on the web. It is easy to [...]

The Terminator

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Terminator is a cool terminal-emulator.

Script Bash para solucionar Realtek r8168 en Ubuntu Hardy (Español)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Al utilizar Hardy original, algunas tarjetas de red como la Realtek r8168 no funcionan. Recomiendo esta solución: En lugar del utilizar el driver r8169 que se distribuye con Ubuntu (que está roto), es mas conveniente utilizar el driver r8168 que distribuye Realtek.

Script to Fix R8168 in Ubuntu Hardy

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The Realtek r8168 network card does not work out of the box in Hardy. modprobe loads the r8169 module. A solution is to use a patched version of the r8168 driver provided by Realtek.

Salmon and Hardy

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Wulp, my new laptop is here and it is quite a sweet piece of equipment. Her name is salmon.jamesonwilliams.com (the color, not the fish.) It shipped with Vista, which I played around with for a few days - and I have to say, it is a fairly nice looking piece of software. But my fun [...]