13 Mar 2009
Posted by Quantum at 12:51 am
After spending much time and effort on the mailserver project I think I have finally created a secure and working basic setup. It’s currently a little to late to do extensive testing but the brief tests carried out so far look good. A laptop with a self signed ssl certificate can securely connect to the [...]
03 Mar 2009
Posted by Quantum at 10:24 pm
I was hoping to begin this month with news that my mailserver project was reaching the milestone objective of being secure and working, alas it is not to be. The good news is that over the past month I have made significant progress and am in the final stages of securing and testing. I have [...]
23 Dec 2008
Posted by Quantum at 2:26 am
In the past few weeks I purchased some new Anti-virus and Firewall software from ESET to replace my expiring & bloated AVG install. The first machine to get the upgrade was my XP desktop machine; everything went well. I was impressed with the lighter feel to the software and the added fact that it didn’t [...]
25 Oct 2008
Posted by Quantum at 1:00 am
It appears that all of a sudden there has been a failure of the Тюмень ландшафтgentoo-wiki.com site. Maybe not a failure as such but events being such that it nolonger exists. It means that a huge ammount of Gentoo and Linux information has been lost from the web (some may be recoverable from Google cache). [...]
08 Apr 2008
Posted by Quantum at 10:59 pm
On a Windows machine with Firefox and Azureus installed magnet links in web pages are already associated with Azureus. In Linux (at least in my experience with Gentoo) this association is missing by default. The following steps will enable the desired functionality. In Firefox Type about:config into the address bar and press Enter. Right-click -> [...]
27 Jan 2008
Posted by Quantum at 3:55 pm
I have been happily using my notebook without problems since I posted my last update. I was enjoying using it so much I decided to take advantage of the low RAM prices and upgrade from 2GB to 4GB. Running a 64bit version of Gentoo I was just expecting to plug the stuff in, it be [...]
16 Dec 2007
Posted by Quantum at 7:46 pm
SOUND!!! Yes it is now possible to get the ALC268 hda-intel audio chipset working along with the headphone jack. It has taken a few hours trying to hack a solution together from notes relating to other distros but I finally have something acceptable. I guess you want to know how to do it, instructions now [...]
16 Dec 2007
Posted by Quantum at 2:10 pm
Yesterday I purchased a mouse to use with my notebook; I lead such an eventful life. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be worthy of mention, most mice are plug in and use. My mouse however needs to work with Linux and here in lies the problem. Getting a mouse to talk to Linux is getting easier the [...]
07 Oct 2007
Posted by Quantum at 3:38 pm
Time for an update on my progress of installing Gentoo Linux on my Toshiba X200-20S. I have been managing to get audio playing out of the integrated speakers, so I assumed it was all working and setup correctly, wrong. When I tried to plug in my headphones the audio continues to be played out of [...]
08 Sep 2007
Posted by Quantum at 1:22 pm
The Belkin Switch2 is a range of KVM switches to switch between 2 computers. Some of the range support usb keyboards and mice and include stereo audio switching, it is these particular models which are of interest. Software isn’t required for out of the box functionality but it can be used to enhance it. Belkin [...]
