http://www.haqthegibson.com Keep up to date with articles from Jonesy http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/43 Jamsi has the instructions over at Jigsaw Boys... Installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu Hardy -Jonesy http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/42 Google this and you'll probably find guides telling you to do things like create a symlink from /etc/localtime, pointing to /usr/share/zoneinfo/. That is correct, and works... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/41 I had to install 32bit Debian GNU/Linux on an AMD Opteron 64bit system recently, and it was not quite as straightforward as it may seem... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/40 If you, like me, can't stand that obnoxious system beep in VMWare and have discovered that you can't cut speaker wires inside a VM, you... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/39 I installed a pair of clustered debian linux servers today, using the heartbeat package for failover management. I had a couple of problems (which were... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/38 Over the weekend I was involved in Joining a Windows 2003 server in the US to our domain here in Sydney over an IPSEC VPN.... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/37 At some stage you may find that you need to run the ssh daemon on multiple ports, for example so that you can have... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/36 If you're getting this error when trying to start sshd: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key Disabling protocol version 1. Could... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/35 I decided it was high time that haqthegibson.com moved from it's crappy tables-based layout, so it is now 100% css! I think the white looks... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/34 This error was the bane of my life for a while, and it was very hard to get a definitive answer as to what was... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/33 After installing Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, I found that although I had totem-xine and mplayer installed, I couldn't play most DVDs. After a bit... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/32 The other day I was rebuilding my home Linux server to Debian Sarge, and I was thinking "This is such overkill for a home network".... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/31 Recently I've come across a fantastic package for Linux called Mondo Rescue. It's a series of scripts which let you take a snapshot of... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/30 So, after some mucking around, my gp2x finally arrived, and whilst my initial reaction was "it's cool, but still pretty buggy", I now love it! The... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/29 I'm sure everyone's either played with or at least seen the PSP from sony. I was thinking about getting one the other day when I... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/28 Whilst honing my PHP skills the other day, I built a class to generate an RSS feed and thought where better to try it... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/26 I had to convert my Ogg Vorbis music to mp3 so that I could get all my music on my ipod, and came across a... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/25 As a sort of Christmas present, the company that I work for gave all employees a 512MB ipod shuffle. I though that this was all... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/24 Whilst trolling some of my usual online haunts, I came across ReactOS, an Open Source project which aims to create a Windows XP compatible... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/23 This week I have been playing with a mini PC, based on a VIA C3 533MHz processor. It has 256MB of SDRAM, a 40GB... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/22 I don't know about everyone else, but I'm sick of seeing thousands of attempts by people to bruteforce SSH on my servers. Recently I came... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/21 Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is, to quote from the LVM Howto: "a system which provides a higher-level view of the disk storage on a computer system... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/20 I've recently purchased two PCI FXO cards based on the Ambient 3200 chipset (they're Digium clones) with the intention of setting up a VOIP gateway... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/19 I needed to replace about 34,000 exe files with 0-length files today after a virus corrupted them. It was difficult to use a normal bash... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/18 Check out www.jigsawboys.com. It's a site developed by four IT consultants, who are building up a tech-tips database. These guys have knowledge in the areas... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/17 I'm finally using only Linux, and no Micro$oft, thanks to TransGaming. These guys produce Cedega and Point2Play. These are emulators based on wine, which... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/16 A few times I've had a client complain that the internet is slow, and when I've investigated, I've found that someone in the office has... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/15 Netgear wireless gear is crap. Worse than D-Link, and that's a pretty big call. I say this because after trying THREE DIFFERENT netgear Access Points and Wireless... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/14 Sometimes SELINUX isn't neccesary and adds a lot of admin overhead. Other times it's just plain annoying, like when today it didn't let apache access... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/13 After not being able to find any good DVD ripping software for linux a while ago, I discovered acidrip http://acidrip.sf.net today. After running "apt-get... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/12 Problem: Firefox blocks uncommon low-numbered ports by default, which are needed by some web apps I use. When I try to go to http://whatever:95, for... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/8 An email I recieved after complaining to an ISP in Japan that one of their users was trying to bruteforce ssh on one of my... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/7 The old civic has gone to the wreckers :( But the new civic is still going hard, keeping up the proud tradition of the ownership of... http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/6 Is to obtain an account with posting privileges. Ask Jonesy how to get an account... i r teh 1337 1!11one!11 -Jonesy http://www.haqthegibson.com/article/5 In linux, to make a file or directory unmodifiable, execute this as root: chattr +i file use -R as well to set it recursively on directories and files. -Jonesy