Category Archives: Computing

Cisco 7960 buggy SIP firmware rev. 7.5

I’ve been getting intermittent complaints recently that our Cisco 7960 phones are refusing to work and displaying an ‘XML Parse Error’. In inability to transfer calls seems also to be part of the equation. Well, I’ve never had the problem … Continue reading

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Fedora Core 5 ATI driver with theater_out tv support

I have a radeon 9200 video card in my HTPC, since when I bought it all the HTPC enthusiasts over at seemed to think ATI was better for tv output. I also wanted the possibility of using a component adapter … Continue reading

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IVTV Autoloading on Fedora Core 5

My MythTV system has been in place for several years now, and has seen many versions of Fedora. Ensuring the IVTV modules were loaded correctly after a system restart has always been a bit of a black art, however, and … Continue reading

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Oracle Unbreakable Linux?

I’d heard in passing that Larry Ellison announced Oracle was going to start selling Red Hat Linux support, and that Red Hat stock and dropped like 43% in a day because of it, but the gravity of the situation never … Continue reading

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Burning DVD ISO images on Linux

So I had a great idea… Why don’t I buy a DVD burner and then start using DVD’s to install software, make backups, etc, etc. Well… it was a nice idea, but then I had another great idea… Why don’t … Continue reading

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Fedora/CentOS with a Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000

So I’m working on some linux software and am running linux on my desktop. One of my major pet peeves every time I go back to a linux desktop is that out of the box my button 4 and 5 … Continue reading

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Solaris BrandZ Zones

Sun has really been pushing innovation with Solaris recently, and since it’s now freely available and open sourced, what better time to give it a test drive? With the Solaris Express Nevada 49 release (get it from http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/ and click … Continue reading

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Disk Benchmarks, Round 1

In the process of trying to figure out my VM performance problems, I’ve been doing a lot of filesystem benchmarking. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of consistency between platforms or machine classes as to benchmarking methodology, so I’ve had some … Continue reading

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Security Appliance Roundup Part 1

So I want to simplify and strengthen our network security at the office. Currently we’re using a mishmash of cisco IOS ipsec, pptp, cbac/NAT and linux iptables host based firewalls. I’d like to centralize everything, and add a more reliable … Continue reading

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