Monthly Archives: August 2012

Thoughts on Time, Submarines and OggCamp

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

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TheLinuxLink.net

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

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

“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

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)

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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