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 [...]
28 Jun 2008
Posted by Quantum at 2:11 pm
It’s that time again when another peice of my IT equipment has died. When I say died it’s more akin to requiring the replacement of several major organs at the same time. Thurday night I was going about my usual activities of checking email and surfing the web with my windows desktop and 24/7 linux [...]
30 May 2008
Posted by Quantum at 11:49 pm
May 2008 has been somewhat uneventful on the traveling front, work has mainly taken my to and from the office (3 miles a day). On the plus side being based at home I have invested some time into trying to setup a mail server. Now setting up a mail server was never going to be [...]
10 Apr 2008
Posted by Quantum at 12:20 am
I have been developing my own iptables firewall scripts for my Linux machines. On the whole the process has been going quite well. Part of my research into the firewall rules involved buying a few reference books, one of which contained what claimed to be a very secure script. I copied the base rules over [...]
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 -> [...]
22 Mar 2008
Posted by Quantum at 7:48 pm
Over the easter weekend I have decided once again to setup my network just the way I like it. Up to this point everything is going well, the Samba shares on the linux machines are at last accessible through the firewall and the Linux machines can access the Windows shares. Now the problems start. It’s [...]
22 Mar 2008
Posted by Quantum at 10:44 am
I’m always on the lookout for new innovations from the Linux community and today I stumbled across something interesting. Foresight Linux is a relatively new distribution but what differentiates it from the competition is the package manager. In other binary distros upgrading an application involves removing the old package in its entirety and dropping the [...]
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 [...]
