Netgear WG511

The Netgear WG511 is a Cardbus 802.11g adapter. It’s actually a very good one, except for one serious issue: They changed the specification without changing the model number. As far as I’m concerned, this is deliberate deception on the part of Netgear and I wrote them a letter telling them so. My response consisted of… Continue reading Netgear WG511

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Linksys PSUS4

The Linksys PSUS4 is a neat little print server that supports a single USB attached printer. Just one problem, it doesn’t work. This device is one of those infuriating things that’s enough to put me off Linksys for good, despite some of their other products being excellent. The basic issue is that the IPP (Internet… Continue reading Linksys PSUS4

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Moving Filesystems

Just some commands to remind me how to move non-raid filesystems to mdadm raid1 Use fdisk to create two identical partitions of type fd – raid autodetect Create the new array mdadm –create –verbose /dev/md0 –level raid1 –raid-disks 2 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb2 Mount the new filesystem mkdir /mnt/newdisk mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newdisk Copy a filesystem to it… Continue reading Moving Filesystems

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Encrypted Filesystems

My efforts to load an encrypted filesystem under Debian Sarge using a 2.6 kernel

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IRC Stuff

Some useful IRC commands that I constantly forget: /msg nickserv register [password] [email] [additional info] Register a nickname /ignore JOINS PARTS QUITS NICKS Ignore joins, parts, quits and nickname changes /ctcp [nick] version Returns details of the irc client being used by [nick] /mode [chan] +o [nick] Promotes [nick] to Operator status on channel [chan]… Continue reading IRC Stuff

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