Author Archives: ken_fallon

Competition to design Mini Business Cards for HPR

I Need Help I would like to have some mini-business cards made. The idea been to give them out at shows, to people interested in recording a show or to potential interviewees. I’ve also seen them used to add a … Continue reading

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How to install Checkpoint ssl extender vpn (snx) under Fedora 14

I have released an update to this blog post: See CheckPoint SNX install instructions for major Linux distributions This is the Fedora 14 AMD64 version of my previous post How to install Checkpoint ssl extender vpn (snx) under Debian/Kubuntu. Running the … Continue reading

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Installing Citrix on Fedora 14

Some of you my be familiar with my adventures with installing Citrix on Debian based systems, well I’ve been trying out Fedora 14 and came across a few issues as well. You can make life a lot easier for yourself … Continue reading

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Rebooting on the command line

I was prompted to write this post after listening to Jonathan Nadeau talk about accessibility in Ubuntu. He mentioned not knowing how to shutdown a GNU/Linux system from the command line yet. As it happens the command to use is … Continue reading

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Talk Geek To Me Interview

I was honoured to be asked to do an interview by Deep Geek on his site Talk Geek To Me. Although the interview focused on the plans for revitalizing  Hacker Public Radio, there was time for a discussion about technology in general … Continue reading

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Note to future self: Klaatu’s podcast on Audacity

The GNU World Order September 23, 2010: Episode 6×01 Could only be improved by making it a video cast.

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XP guest in a virtual box losing network mappings

I had a strange situation where my XP guest would login fine to a domain and everything would work for a period of time. Suddenly the CheckPoint client would pop up even though I did not request anything in the … Continue reading

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The JakAttack is back (Again)

It was an ordinary day. A day like any other when suddenly… As I was transferring my ogg casts to my ogg player I realised that there was a new JakAttack episode. The show is by Jon Watson and his … Continue reading

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WordPress Plugin – Are you sure ?

This is the second time that I have pressed publish when I meant to press preview. The solution – I hope – is the “Are you sure ?” plugin. All it does is ask you are you sure when you … Continue reading

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Secure browsing on a open wifi network

Most of the traffic on the Internet is sent in the clear – fact. Back in the day the Internet was a trusting place. You’d think that given it was developed as a Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) project … Continue reading

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