When I saw this, I thought of a colleagues recent experience with his client’s servers being taken over through a weakness in VNC. It was a pretty scary experience for him and his client – everyone in our Upper Valley Freelancers group tried to help and the mail flew fast and frequently for a few […]
I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (version 7.04, an alpha release) on my ThinkPad T43 last week. I have a model 2668-97U and it’s had Windows XP on it every since I bought it January of 2006 – I thought it was pretty nice with Windows…. I really like Ubuntu. Everything, and I mean everything worked […]
Took apart a Dell Inspiron XPS (or Inspiron 9100), Model PP09L to replace a failed video card. Here are some things I found while doing it. Never believe youself when you think the warranty has expired – check with the vendor. We were sure this one had gone, but Dell thinks not. Upshot? Free video […]
The Barca mail client has been good to me. In fact, it’s the only mail client I’ve ever paid for myself. But, I’ve been using it for about two years now and I’m getting a little tired of it. There are a few bugs that have worn on me and it’s slowed down quite a […]
Plagued by these messages in your Linux server’s kernel log – kern.log? Finally tracked down a reasonable explanation this morning. Seems a bug was introduced in the kernel back in 2.6.8 and it causes, among other troubles, this error message: Jan 17 12:30:13 iml kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 134.48.120.88:3832/80 shrinks window 3881756777:3881761622. Repaired.Jan 21 […]