Category Archives: General

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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How to install checkpoint ssl extender VPN SNX under Fedora 16 64bit

Posted on 2012-02-22 by ken_fallon

I have released an update to this blog post: See CheckPoint SNX install instructions for major Linux distributions The SNX saga continues and this time it’s on Fedora 16 64 bit. I followed the steps in my post “How to install … Continue reading →

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HPR Scheduling System

Posted on 2012-02-21 by ken_fallon

I have been trying to learn inkscape so that I could have a vector based version of the HPR logo. This would be useful for printing out large posters for use at the Linux Festivals that we attend. I had … Continue reading →

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Installing Citrix on Fedora 16/17

Posted on 2011-11-11 by ken_fallon

The steps involved in getting Citrix installed on Fedora 16 are not that much different to the steps involved in Fedora 14. The major difference is that it is now called Receiver for Linux 12.0 and not ICAClient, Citrix Linux … Continue reading →

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