Category Archives: Linux

Booting Ubuntu from USB

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 – 20:02

I recently set up a usb drive with a bootable version of Ubuntu using the following tutorial http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-usb-bar It is geared to Ubuntu Gutsy but I was able to install the Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 4 with the same instructions. Upgrade to Hardy Alpha 5, and Beta was really smooth, all I had to do was [...]

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Tomato

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 – 12:36

New Router Firmware I saw a post on Lifehacker about setting up a different firmware on my home router. I’ve tried this before with DD-WRT, HyperWRT and Open-WRT. The only version that I was able to get set up easily was HyperWRT.  HyperWRT was alright (read functional) but it certainly wasn’t fantastic.  In setting up [...]

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Listening to Podcasts on Linux

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 – 19:56

Last week one of my coworkers told me about Synergy (which lets you use a single mouse and keyboard with multiple computers across a network, and is cross-platform so I can use it on my laptop and my work computer) so I have been able to use my laptop more at work and I would [...]

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SuSE Linux and My Synaptics Touchpad

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 – 18:21

I just installed SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.1 RC and, by default, on my laptop the synaptics touchpad has the botton section or horizontal scroll mapped to the forward and back browser buttons in Firefox. Fortunately I found a reference for how to fix it on the internet. The basic idea is that you need [...]

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