tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37195192009-06-10T22:48:04.309-04:00This blog contains information regarding all things Linux, although any computer technology subject matter fits within the realm of this blog.Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-24406821822529639792007-03-28T12:00:00.000-04:002007-03-28T12:08:01.289-04:00

I've finally decided to wipe the drive of my Toshiba Satellite and install a full (and only) install of Linux. It previously had WinXP and Slackware 10.2 dual-booting. It is now a blank drive. My intention is to put Hakin9.live on it. This is a live security distro, but I wanted to give it a spin in a non-live environment by installing it on my laptop.I created an 11GB partition initially and

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-1146676057325740982006-05-03T13:03:00.000-04:002007-01-16T20:51:07.184-05:00

I found this link from a colleague's site at http://blog.vodun.org/It's a good read. It would be better if they'd left out the political slant, as it's VERY obvious that the author doesn't agree with what's happening in Iraq. It's only assumptions and it IS his research, but I think authors should take that into account when writing papers, as it lends more credibility to their work. I myself

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-1146346097848431332006-04-29T17:24:00.000-04:002007-01-16T20:50:22.733-05:00

I needed an extra box but don't really have the money to go out and get the items I need, such as a system case, a CPU, or memory. I've many odds and ends to make a system but the mix of parts span a generation or two in components, such as, I've a few AT motherboards but no AT cases (well, I have one), yet those systems need SIMM memory, which I have but not in abundance...those motherboards

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-1085877620396948342004-05-29T20:40:00.000-04:002004-05-29T20:40:20.396-04:00

test

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3644733.stm Hrmmmm...looks like insurgents instead of Americans killing Iraqis to me. I'm betting half or more of those insurgents were Iraqis themselves, and if they aren't they're of middle-eastern descent. Children were killed also. I wonder if I'll find this article or an mention of that article's attacks at http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/?

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-1081990552066999382004-04-14T20:55:00.000-04:002004-04-14T21:06:43.310-04:00

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com The above kinda pisses me off. The content itself it stuff I read and hear every day in the newspaper and on television. I sympathized with the author until I saw that he tends to bitch about the Americans being there and the Americans not dying as much as the Iraqis. A life is a life...all those who've died have left loved ones behind. ALL OF THEM. I

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-1067316620083011872003-10-27T23:50:00.000-05:002003-10-27T23:52:39.716-05:00

test...again

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-947609172003-05-22T20:06:00.000-04:002003-05-22T20:06:54.996-04:00

Well, Featureprice has folded. See the below (warning, long cut/pasted email): _______ Subject: FeaturePrice Announces: We're Closing Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 07:47:12 GMT From: FeaturePrice Announces: "We're Closing" To: wigglit@wigglit.com Quoted from the 'Web Host Industry Review' ( thewhir.com/marketwatch/sws012303.cfm ) "FeaturePrice Rejects Bids, Shuts Down May 9, 2003 -- (WEB HOST

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-945777292003-05-19T08:51:00.000-04:002003-05-19T08:51:36.050-04:00

Take a look at this link and be amazed as I was (and as I STILL am!): http://www.littlepc.com Pretty cool, huh? The price may be a bit high but one could consider that the small sizes come at a price...a price many will be willing to pay (and yet it's still cheaper than most laptops -- sans display). Input, anyone?

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-944853932003-05-17T00:34:00.000-04:002003-05-17T00:35:53.000-04:00

I pulled this from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT: _________ 13.5. What is this UID 0 toor account? Have I been compromised? Do not worry. toor is an ``alternative'' superuser account (toor is root spelt backwards). Previously it was created when the bash(1) shell was installed but now it is created by default. It is intended to be used with a

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-944239402003-05-15T22:00:00.000-04:002003-05-15T22:00:29.896-04:00

I tried Knoppix last Saturday on the laptop. All I can say is that its PERFECT. It detected every single piece of hardware correctly upon boot. I've never seen that with ANY other linux distribution until now. I care not how other people's experiences went with RH/Slackware/Suse/whatever. What I experienced last Saturday was pure Linux Nirvana. Now, why can't other Linux distributions do

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-940760602003-05-09T18:04:00.000-04:002003-05-09T18:28:10.000-04:00

A coworker passed along a Knoppix CD that he got from somewhere (I forget where he said). I currently use something similar called the Linux Bootable Toolkit (LBT) that has a VERY small footprint, enough to fit on a 180MB mini-CD. It even includes a GUI (Blackbox). This'll be the first time I try Knoppix. I have a version of Knoppix as an ISO that I got from last month's LinuxFormat magazine

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-939706372003-05-08T00:18:00.000-04:002003-05-08T00:24:59.000-04:00

Trying out the Phoenix web browser in FreeBSD....very very nice. Anyways, I thought I'd drop by to throw a few notes to some people who may not know how to mount MSDOS partitions in FreeBSD. I did use Google to attempt to find out how to do this but saw more questions than answers. The FreeBSD handbook (which I bought, the actual book) didn't cover how to mount MSDOS partitions and the manual

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-929595462003-04-20T22:45:00.000-04:002003-04-20T22:45:05.106-04:00

I edited http://www.unixfool.com and added a page link to it: http://www.unixfool.com/cracked.shtml. Happy Easter everyone. Oh yeah, I bought a Nikon Coolpix 3100 yesterday. This is a NICE camera. It is a 3.2 megapixel camera with 12 shooting modes, a movie mode (.avi), comes with a 16MB CF card (I've five others to use, all high capacity), and can fit in a pocket. I bought the Coolpix

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-928775432003-04-19T02:38:00.000-04:002003-04-19T02:38:34.780-04:00

OK...XP is now fine. Sound is now fixed and it seems stable. The only thing left for me is to update the 17" LCD monitor. I got my fix of VietCong tonight. Tomorrow I'll install Battlefield: 1942 again. Goodnight.

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-928651692003-04-18T20:57:00.000-04:002003-04-18T20:57:38.793-04:00

I spent ALL night workin on Windows XP. I'm still at a pretty fresh install. I FINALLY got the video drivers to take. For some reason, I couldn't get XP to accept the Radeon 7500 drivers; I tried all last week. Then last night, troubles kept cascading. When I got XP to take the vid drivers, the DVD burner drivers got corrupted. Since they got corrupted, I couldn't access the DVD (or CDROM)

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-926896782003-04-15T22:38:00.000-04:002003-04-15T22:38:25.903-04:00

Yuck...something is definitely going wrong with my blog posts. I've no idea what yet. I just tried to look into it and the template itself seems fine. Maybe its Blogger.com? Let's see how THIS post posts. I installed Slackware 9.0 Saturday/Sunday (midnight-ish). Looks VERY nice. I'm most definitely buying Slackware 9.0 when I get the chance, sometime soon. I also installed FreeBSD 5.0

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-926891082003-04-15T22:28:00.000-04:002003-04-15T22:33:11.000-04:00

I updated http://www.unixfool.com and http://www.unixfool.com/slack9isolist.shtml That's about it. Excuse the lack of linking with the above URLs but it's late and for some reason, when I post and publish this entry, it keeps hanging at the URLs and screwing up the rest of the entry. I'll debug it later, hopefully]. Well, I was messing with getting FBSD back onto my system. I've already got

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-921334712003-04-07T02:43:00.000-04:002003-04-07T02:43:45.856-04:00

I updated http://www.unixfool.com and added http://www.unixfool.com/slack9isolist.shtml. That's about it. Well, I was messing with getting FBSD back onto my system. I've already got an install but the drive its on isn't active. I bought a new IDE card and added it to the system but cannot figure out how to boot from that device. The current LILO that I have won't boot from that IDE. I may

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-918243882003-04-02T00:50:00.000-05:002003-04-02T00:50:14.793-05:00

Just a quick message here, then I'm retiring for the night. Using Debian, I didn't know how to set the timezone of the system. It was showing the 'correct' time but compensating by setting the timezone to 'CST'. Using the trusty Google, I found that tzconfig is used to set the timezone in Debian. Very intuitive (read NOT arcane) tool, and it quickly got my timezone set correctly. Other than

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-917297972003-03-31T15:51:00.000-05:002003-03-31T15:51:07.576-05:00

OK...I did some updating on some pages that needed dire attention: http://www.wigglit.com/cbm.html http://www.wigglit.com/pda.html http://www.wigglit.com/toshiba_notes.html http://www.wigglit.com/webtoolkit.html Also, I made an entry to http://zaurus.blogspot.com, the first entry I've done in a few months. It's not much but it's there. I'm outta here. I've still time to play with MySQL after

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-905395702003-03-11T15:03:00.000-05:002003-03-11T15:15:41.000-05:00

Updated http://www.wigglit.com/EECH.html ________________ Got Debian semi sorted out...still the occasional "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:" for apps like 'gkrellm,' 'gtop,' 'xcdroast' and such, even as root (in an xterm, at least). Xhost doesn't seem to solve it...haven't tried xauth yet. ________________ Other than that, I've not done much but play a new game I bought: Battlefield

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-903539162003-03-08T08:45:00.000-05:002003-03-11T15:16:51.000-05:00

What's up? What's new here? Not much. I've gotten the LCD flatscreen to work in Linux. In fact, it was easier to set up in Linux than Windows and I didn't have to download drivers. I've gotten Xine working with Debian too, so I can now watch DVDs in Linux although for some reason, all my DVDs are showing in black/white when viewing them. If I dump the DVD viewing frame into an image file,

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-895530942003-02-22T10:44:00.000-05:002003-02-22T10:44:59.490-05:00

Well, I bought a 17" Flatscreen LCD monitor last night. I was about to get the ViewSonic 17" but comparing prices, I got the MagInnovision instead. The ViewSonic was $499 after the mail-in rebate was factored in. I got the MagInnovision for $470, which will end up costing $420 after the rebate. It has speakers, which I wanted since my sound system is in TX on my Slackware system. I can't

Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07368326205701250122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719519.post-892778592003-02-17T21:45:00.000-05:002003-02-17T22:10:27.000-05:00

Did some updates to the webpages since I've been snowed-in the last few days: http://www.wigglit.com/page2.html http://www.wigglit.com/C/programming.html http://www.wigglit.com/linux.html I also recently bought a Logitech cordless usb optical mouse and Logitech cordless usb keyboard. They work VERY WELL! I dunno why I haven't thought of buying them before now, but I'm in bliss. The mouse is

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