Monthly Archives: May 2005

LDAP for Contacts and Mozilla Thunderbird

5/31/2005 – 3:48 pm

Recently, I have been toying with using LDAP to handle names, addresses, phone numbers, and thelike. After setting up LDAP, I configured Mozilla Thunderbird to speak with my LDAP based addressbook. It works, sort of. Apparently there are a great many issues that still need to be addressed in Thunderbird. Fortunately, [...]

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OpenWRT on my WRT54G v3!

5/20/2005 – 1:59 pm

After some fiddling I managed to install a recent experimental build of OpenWrt on my Linksys WRT54G v3. It’s spiffy so far.

BusyBox v1.00 (2005.04.23-22:18+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter ‘help’ for a list of built-in commands.

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Silent Hunter III Survival Guide

5/4/2005 – 8:01 pm

The documentation that ships with Silent Hunter 3 is quite lacking. Additionally, over time players have shared many insights that are worth repeating. In no specific order, I have documented the insights I have found most useful, from known bugs, to community mods, to useful methods for manual targeting and general gameplay information.
(It’s [...]

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NVidia TwinView, Firefox fonts and Xine stretch, others!

5/3/2005 – 6:56 pm

If you’re using a NVidia card with TwinView and the Xinerama extension replacement, you may find some applications are suddenly not behaving as they used to. Some applications do not like the way NVidia has properly implemented a multiple display framebuffer, and break horribly.
Some examples. Firefox and Thunderbird load up with font sizes [...]

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The joy of owning yourself!

5/1/2005 – 5:51 pm

What was originally a small issue with the latest KDE packages in Debian turned out to be a bit more than I thought it would be. I ran into the dreaded “Initializing Devices” KDE startup issue. After removing all my KDE related directories in ~, it was still broken. I decided finally [...]

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Debian ifupdown issue 0.6.4-4.12

5/1/2005 – 3:16 pm

ifupdown 0.6.4-4.12 has problems if /etc/network/run exists, breaking installation of itself and any packages that depend on it.

Setting up ifupdown (0.6.4-4.12) …
ifupdown.postinst: Error: The canonical path of /etc/network/run could not be determined.Aborting.

To resolve the issue, remove /etc/network/run and run apt-get again.

# rm /etc/network/run
# apt-get -f install

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