Yeah, I know it sounds simple, but there’s nothing in the online help.
Firstly, you need to figure out which device your USB drive is. Devices in Unix are represented as files in the /dev directory; this includes disk drives. On my system I have an IDE hard drive (/dev/hda), a SATA drive and a […]
So, I put DD-WRT on my wireless router. It’s pretty nifty - maybe marginally more polished/focussed than OpenWRT, but it takes up a fair amount of my router’s four megabyte flash storage. It helped me get WPA bridged client mode on my Mitsubishi R100 wireless router working for the first time; but I also want […]
More Fedora hilarity, this time caused by me naming my machine something meaningful via the hostname command.
I couldn’t tell what was causing it, but applications - even simple ones like the image viewer - were taking 1-2 minutes to load. A little network sniffing showed me that my Linux box was sending IPV6 DNS […]
Live outside of North America? Trying (in vain) to set the date format in Thunderbird to Day/Month/Year in Fedora? The command is system-config-language. Yeah, I know - you were looking for a “Locale” dialogue in Thunderbird - but no, it’s a Gnome command, it has little to do with location, but if you set […]
…is perhaps the least useful error message I’ve seen. Windows boot failures have obscure messages - “Invalid BOOT.INI”, “Cannot find NTLOADER” - but at least they’re unique enough not to crop up in ordinary conversation (and thus Search Engine Result Pages).
For the record, I was trying to install Fedora Core 6 on an Athlon64 […]