Author Archives: ken_fallon

TheLinuxLink.net

Posted on 2012-08-17 by ken_fallon

The Linux Link The following list is based on information on the The Linux Link website, maintained by Dann Washko. Thanks to everyone who supplied updated information on the podcasts and a special thank you to Dave Morriss for helping … Continue reading →

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Active Linux Podcasts

Posted on 2012-08-08 by ken_fallon

I’m putting a list of Linux/Tech/Security podcasts together to hand out at http://OggCamp .org. The list comes from http://www.thelinuxlink.net/ and I want to know am I missing any active podcasts. BSD Talk ( http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ) Category5 ( http://www.category5.tv ) CCHits … Continue reading →

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Using xrandr to ensure that your rdesktop session will always be 90% of the smallest screen

Posted on 2012-08-06 by ken_fallon

“rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000 & 2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions … Continue reading →

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8 years 4 days of flawless service

Posted on 2012-08-04 by ken_fallon

I installed my server on Jul 31 2004 and much like the witches broom in many a Terry Pratchett book, my old server went through many upgrades but remained the same server. It had two new cases, many new hard … Continue reading →

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TrueCrypt on a Respberry PI (no gui)

Posted on 2012-08-01 by ken_fallon

These are the steps that I took to compile the application without a gui. Get the truecrypt source from http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2 and download the “Mac OS X / Linux (.tar.gz)” file and save it to a directory. Get the wxWidgets from … Continue reading →

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Find out which installed file belongs to which package in Fedora and Debian

Posted on 2012-07-31 by ken_fallon

I was looking for a binary to know which package it was installed, in this case the mail application. For Debian: dpkg –search $(readlink -m $(which mail)) bsd-mailx: /usr/bin/bsd-mailx For Fedora: $ rpm -qf $(readlink -m $(which mail)) mailx-12.5-5.fc17.x86_64 The … Continue reading →

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Software I install to a base Linux system

Posted on 2012-07-28 by ken_fallon

Here is the entry for what I need to install after a clean Fedora install, (this will probably be edited a lot as I add to the list): Applications yum install synergy openssh-server audacity-freeworld ffmpeg sox sox-plugins-freeworld mplayer inkscape scribus … Continue reading →

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Skype-call-recorder on Fedora

Posted on 2012-07-15 by ken_fallon

Skype is frowned on by many as it is proprietary software and by more as it is now owned by Microsoft. However you cannot get over the fact that it has enabled millions to keep in touch for affordable cost. … Continue reading →

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Can you spare £5 for a meter of broadband ?

Posted on 2012-05-27 by ken_fallon

#da12bb #HPR  Back in episode #hpr 0980, I spoke with Chris Conder of Broadband for Rural North. Located in the very pretty but the rural Forest of Bowland in Lancashire in the UK, and tired of putting up with slow ‘broadband’ … Continue reading →

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Fedora 16

Posted on 2012-05-17 by ken_fallon

In the HPR0892 :: Hacker Public Radio New Year’s Eve Part 2/8 (A Bit About Fedora) I spoke about my Fedora install and I would like to put some better show notes out here. First thing to do is get … Continue reading →

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