March 17th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, linux/unix, notes, software, technology, web hosting
Late last month, the Debian GNU/Linux project announced that security patch support for the old stable release, 3.1 (codename Sarge), will end on the last day of March. Many people will be using servers, integrated and other special systems with Sarge for a long time to come, without applying any patches, and I’m afraid I’ll [...]
March 13th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, windows
To cure my boredom, I’m posting an inconclusive fix to an issue (or feature?) I’ve experienced using the PuTTY terminal emulator/SSH client for Microsoft Windows. It’s worth mentioning that PuTTY Tray is the version I prefer – it’s patched to include something that detects URLs and makes them clickable links, a feature frivolously left out [...]
November 22nd, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in hardware, in English, linux/unix, notes, technology
My 32 bit Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) system didn’t automagically configure the Epson Perfection V10 USB-scanner my employer keeps at the office, but following instructions posted on Ubuntuforums.org appears to have solved the problem. I also made backup copies of both the current Epson drivers from avasys.jp and the Ubuntuforums post, see http://misc.nybergh.net/pub/drivers/epson_perfection_v10_linux/. EDIT: The [...]
September 1st, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, printing, technology
I have previously, without any real luck, tried to connect a USB printer/scanner called Canon Pixma MP500 to a machine running Ubuntu Edgy, and later Feisty (7.04). The driver “MP500 Ver.2.60″ kept refusing to print anything more than a small part of the upper left corner of an A4 page. This driver, in other words, [...]
September 1st, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in Finnish, internet, linux/unix, politics, suomeksi, technology
Tämä teksti syntyi alkuperäisesti vastauksena Tietokone-lehden Tietoja koneesta-blogille. Itse käytän aina NoScript, CookieSafe ja Adblock Plus-laajennuksia Firefoxissa. (EDIT: Cookiesafea ei ylläpidetä enää, maailma on siirtynyt käyttämään saman tekijän CSLite-nimistä lisuketta) Käytännössä tämä tarkoittaa sitä että pääsen eroon javascripteistä, java- ja flashcrapleteistä, kaikista evästeistä ja mainoksista, jos en salli niitä erikseen, mikä on tarvittaessa helppo tehdä [...]
July 21st, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, linux/unix, technology, windows
Windows Home Server, based on Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition “minus the Exchange mail server”, has been released. This raises a number of questions in my head: Will the new category of Home Server hardware, combined with presumably easy to understand support for multi-disk redundancy be the ultimate backup solution Normal People and Very [...]
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