Whenever you are going to re-image a Linux machine (for instance, if you were going to use AutoYast or something to automatically rebuild the machine), it’s a good idea to wipe out the Master Boot Record first. This is to allow the new system to be built in properly, and avoid any problems with LILO [...]
- Submitted by Steve, edited down and into sections for brevity: “Without getting to long winded with my question, in your opinion, how can Novell and/or the Linux community [change these three problems]?” How in the heck can I answer without being long-winded? I’m long-winded at the Burger King drive through. 1. Applications like Cisco [...]
This one can be frustrating. I travel between networks alot, and I cannot predict the condition of the network equipment to which I’ll be physically connecting (when I’m not wireless). Many, many times, it’s Cisco switches; and for some reason, with Cisco my laptop (and other machines for that matter) does not auto-negotiate the 100Mb [...]
This is follow-up to a couple of earlier posts I made a while back. See Part I or Part II for reference. Ok gang, in the earlier posts I talked about the philosophy about — and the steps required to set up — wireless on Linux. Now, I want to offer one more thing; my [...]
If you’re a regular around here, you might have noticed that there is no longer a standard, static, home page here at yourLinuxGuy.com anymore. I’ve changed it to make this blog the home page at the site/url now since, judging by the logs, everyone goes straight here anyway. I did my best to go through [...]
You’re a RealAudio user. I’m a RealAudio user. We get all our Internet streaming stations set up just right in “Favorites”, and all your links to your buddy’s (or your) rock band in your “Recent” list, and you just want it to stay that way. I know, I’ve been there… But, it happens; You set [...]
So I finally got around to upgrading the blog software here to the latest version moments ago. I’m just pitching up a post to make sure it all works… I use WordPress, and now its at v2.3.1. Sorry if I interrupted your reading while doing that….
