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Novatel U998 And OpenSuse 10.2
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010I found it extremely easy to get Bell Mobility’s U998 wireless stick to work under linux, opensuse 10.2 and KDE. It was far easier than the Roger’s “Rocket Stick” (and also better able to have internet connectivity too).
I just simply plugged it in, and then as root typed:
modprobe usbserial vendor=0×1410 product=0×7030
The device almost immediately appeared [...]
New Laptop Updated
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010As I wrote the other day, I purchased a new Dell Studio 17 laptop and have been working to get OpenSuSe 11.2 working on it. I finally managed to get Wireless working by using the broadcom-wl package from the packman repositories. Once I installed them, the wireless device was recognized and I could see the [...]
New Laptop
Friday, March 12th, 2010Been sometime since I have posted here. Life can take many different twists and turns; sometimes quite unexpected.
I recently purchased a new Dell Studio 17 laptop. I had done some research on it before I purchased it and it seemed that I wouldn’t have too much problem getting everything to work under Linux. My first [...]
Flash For Linux Vulnerability
Saturday, December 20th, 2008Another Adobe Flash vulnerability has been discovered in Versions 10.0.12.36, 9.0.151.0 and earlier, for Linux. According to the Adobe website, “… that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits this potential vulnerability to take control of the affected system. A specially formed SWF must be loaded in Flash Player for Linux by the user for [...]
Nothing Is Guaranteed
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008This past weekend, one of the top web hosting firms, ThePlanet.com had an explosion and fire in a data centre, located in Texas. This affected thousands and thousands of websites as although apparently none of the servers in the facility were damaged, backup power to the facility was not allowed by the fire fighting [...]
Reiser File System Future
Monday, May 12th, 2008The recent conviction of Hans Reiser for murder in California may be of concern to some who have implemented the Reiser file system (ReiserFS) on their Linux machines.
Reiser, who apparently continues to maintain his innocence, was convicted in a California court on April 28, 2008 of killing his wife. It’s been an interesting case [...]