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Been a while since I put up any music, here is one that rocks my boat from Dope’s new album No Regrets

Dope - Nothing For Me Here

Finally, after several part working efforts, a good solid working solution.

The identifying part:

Netgear wg111v2

Device ID: 0846:6a00 NetGear, Inc. WG111 WiFi (v2)

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In my last writings you will have seen that I was trying out SLiTaz on my old Dell laptop with its 4GB hard drive, but following investigations in to terminal based applications I decided to head back to an ubuntu base. The main reason for this was that I had started of on ubuntu when really getting into linux, and was comfortable with the operational environment, plus the ease of package installation using apt or synaptic. So the hard drive was wiped again and a command line install of xubuntu 8.10 commenced. Following this I did install two graphical desktop environments, my old friends openbox and xfce, which are both pretty zippy, but the main aim was to try to use the command line as much as possible. For this I followed KMandla’s software guide and used dvtm, moc, mc, calcurse, htop and elinks. Of course, these are all available in the ubuntu repositories but I have linked to their home sites for info purposes. (more…)

Hopefully found a lightweight enough solution to running my ancient laptop. Even a cli base install of xubuntu followed up with openbox it just too heavy. Found SLiTaz, which offered me a new learning curve too! Once you get into it, things are really easy, and as long as you don’t expect an ubuntu sized repository…..

Installation:

SLiTaz cooking iso dated 20090228 (much improved desktop interface over version 1.0 20080322) (more…)

Much written and said about this, but could I find any photo tutorials? No. Also, much of the information is incomplete, leading to confusion on my part when the time came to do it. So here we go.

Haven’t really got hands on with the new Range Rover, was quite happy dismantling stuff on the P38 so was time to get stuck in on the L322 at last and start saving a few pennies at the stealer.

One day, the fans stopped working on Big Bob. All the lights were working, and there was some heat, but nothing blowing. So a quick search on the internet revealed that the final stage resistor (FSR) or fan motor resistor unit was to blame, or at least this was the first best thing to try before it became a case of having the whole inside of the car removed to sort the problem. There were several write ups on the net about how to do it so a trip to eBay found me the required part, and I set to one Friday evening.

You can experience a wide range of symptoms from the FSR going belly up: no fans, fans all the time, battery drain, but the most likely cause of all of these is a dodgy FSR.

This howto is for a UK spec Right Hand Drive car. (more…)

I am a great fan of NFS, and having moved most of my PCs over to linux, use NFS exclusively on my ubuntu based servers. Found my open source floppy of NASLite-NFS yesterday and threw it at a virtual machine just for fun. The installation and setup reminded me just how easy it is to get going, and to end up with a fully fledged NFS file server on your LAN.

Security isn’t great, you’ll have to run behind a LAN and firewall to prevent unauthorised access, but I have found nothing much better for turning a cruddy old PC into something useful. (more…)