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No, this doesn’t mean Ubuntu and Linux are giving up

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:00:19 +0000

This week, Mark Shuttleworth closed the longstanding Ubuntu bug #1, which simply read, “Microsoft has majority market share.” Because Microsoft didn’t lose its market share lead to Ubuntu, or Red Hat, or some other conventional Linux distribution, some people, including

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Cable connections are the last thing most people check…

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:33:10 +0000

Fed up with trying to host a network printer on a Windows 7 box on a mixed network, I broke down and bought a Jetdirect card for my aged HP Laserjet 4100. Don’t worry–used Jetdirect cards are cheap these days.

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Is the Windows firewall safe enough?

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:05:05 +0000

Is the Windows Firewall safe enough? I wish more people would ask that question rather than make assumptions. I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard an unsubstantiated statement like “Windows firewall is junk.” I went looking,

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Shame on you, Medtronic

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:56:41 +0000

Insulin pumps marketed by Minneapolis-based Medtronic have a serious, life-threatening security flaw, and the company couldn’t care less. For these two reasons, this isn’t your typical security flaw, and Medtronic’s response–in 30 years, we’ve ever seen a problem that we

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How I changed servers midstream

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:12:32 +0000

When upgrading this site, I replaced the underlying hardware as well. The old server was just a dead end in too many regards to be worth upgrading in place, and besides, being able to run new and old side by

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Darl\’s getting a blog…

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 22:40:50 +0000

For those of you who don't know, SCO is tired of Groklaw and setting up its own blog, prosco.net (not yet active; it goes live Nov. 1) to provide a counterpoint.

SCO, for the uninitiated, is a software company turned litigation company whose lawsuits against the likes of IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Daimler Chrysler and Autozone aren't doing well.

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Easy and secure remote Linux/Unix file transfers with SCP

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:42:58 +0000

Sometimes you need to transfer files between Linux boxes, or between a Linux box and some other box, and setting up Samba or some other form of network file system may not be practical (maybe you only need to transfer a couple of files, or maybe it's just a one-time thing) or possible (maybe there's a firewall involved).

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FTE – a DOS-style editor for Linux

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 01:07:52 +0000

I don't remember what I was looking for, but I don't remember finding it, and what I do remember finding is what looks like another decent text-mode text editor (is that redundant?) for Linux and Unix.

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Who wants to build an MP3 jukebox when you can go shopping?

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 03:49:28 +0000

I was going to cannibalize a computer to turn into a Linux-based MP3 jukebox--I figure get the OS up and going on it and figure out later what software to run on it. It'll take me a while to get the sound card and wireless NIC working in it, I'm sure. Especially in Debian. If it turns out to be too much of a struggle, I can cave and run Red Hat or SuSE on it since they're likely to just autodetect the stuff. And then I'll be a Linux wimp, yeah, but hey, I'll be a Linux wimp with a really cool sound system.

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A tiny Linux server distribution? Maybe?

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:48:39 +0000

OK, so we've been talking about NAS boxes at work. NAS (Network Attached Storage) is a simple server appliance. Plug this thing into the network and you've got an instant file server.

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