Category Archives: General

Back in 2012-07-10, I did a Hacker Public Radio episode entitled, “hpr1027 :: Migrating away from Google Reader“. Given the current news that Google is to shut down Reader, I thought I would re-post the episodes show notes here as … Continue reading →

The moral of the story is “read the screen” the only problem is that sometimes it’s difficult to interpret what it’s saying. So instead of focusing on “No such file or directory (2)”, I needed to look at “rsync: mkstemp “/new/path/to/files/some:file:with:colon:in:the:name.txt” failed:” and ask why. Continue reading →

I’m looking for help with a project that will provide a way to locate mosquitos. Yes I am serious. Remember this is not the army. We don’t “locate and destroy”. We’re following the Unix  philosophy of doing one job and doing it … Continue reading →

I’m at John Lennon International airport, having a coffee and looking over at a big yellow submarine. I walked past that submarine looking for a bus to take me to OggCamp12. The first stop was the “wave bar”, where the … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

“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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →