A Technology Blog and Stuff by Peter Wong
Centos 6 comes with the nouveau which doesn't work very well for my needs and the Nvidia driver works better. So heres the step to install kmod-nvidia as root. run "rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm" run "yum…
In Ubuntu 11.10, setting up AirPrint is easy. 1. Have a Standard install of Ubuntu Desktop 11.10. 2. Go into the CUPS interface and make sure "Share published printers connected to this system" is enabled…
Today I finished installing a ceiling fan in my son bedroom. This was a new experience and a first for me, it took a few hours and a lot of hard work. We got the…
Today July 29, 2011 is System Administrator Appreciation Day. So Happy SysAdmin Day everyone. More information on SysAdmin Day can be found at http://www.sysadminday.com/
iPad 2 is apple second generation tablet device, it's faster, slimmer and has more RAM than the first generation iPad. Specs: 1GHz dual-core A5 CPU 512MB RAM 16GB, 32GB, 64GB storage options Front & Rear…
I copied this from Toastman: Flashing a new Toastman firmware version over an older one usually won't erase your old config. However, try this method: 1) If you paste "nvram export --set" into the "Tools/System…
Some Linux applications (e.g. webmin and dovecot) require pem certificate files, to do this we use OpenSSL to convert them to pem. Step 1: openssl x509 -in ssl.crt -out ssl.der -outform DER Step 2: openssl…
When using Google Calendar with Outlook 2010 you may get an error like: "Task Internet Calendar Subscriptions' reported error (0x0004002B) : 'Outlook cannot parse the property "CREATED", near line x. The property is being ignored.…
This is what i did for my Canon MX850 to get AirPrint working on my Ubuntu system. 1. Have a Standard install of Ubuntu Desktop. 2. Go into the CUPS interface and make sure "Share…
By default Readynas uses a weak SSH key and apache configurations. Regenerate SSH keys by running the follow: [code] # ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key" -N '' # ssh-keygen -t rsa -f "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key" -N ''…