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cooling the cupboard

June 24th, 2008 No comments

I have a lot of hard­ware run­ning 24x7 — PCs, routers, switches, fire­walls, SAN, and it’s all con­tained within a cup­board where I stick it all. It’s pretty cool, in that it’s a dust free envi­ron­ment, and keeps the noise at bay, which is my intent. It’s basi­cally a small con­tained com­puter room. What’s not cool about it, is that it isn’t.
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HOWTO — Running familiar Linux from CF/SD/MMC

September 20th, 2007 No comments

This howto cov­ers one way of run­ning famil­iar Linux from your CF, SD, or MMC card.

OK, it doesn’t actu­ally boot from SD, but uses a snazzy Linux trick called pivot_root. Which switches over one root with another. This, IMHO, is prob­a­bly the best way of doing it apart from actu­ally directly boot­ing from SD. Although, I’ve only tried this on a 38xx based iPAQ it should work for all hand­helds based on famil­iar. Heck, it should work for any­thing really.

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Nokia GPRS with Linux iPAQ

September 17th, 2007 No comments

If you have an iPAQ installed with famil­iar Linux and want it to con­nect to the net using your Nokia mobile via GPRS; then this is how you do it.
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Enabling proxies for joomla RSS feeds

August 24th, 2007 No comments

This is frus­trat­ing. Joomla is fan­tas­tic, but there are areas that are still very naive and under-coded. Take for exam­ple RSS feeds. If you’re behind a proxy, (aka cor­po­rate fire­wall), then you’re out of luck. How do you do it then?
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