http://www.glenscott.net Reading, Writing, Sysadmin, and Science Fiction. Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:27:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following my previous post on restoring the default xandros install to the eeepc, it didn't take me long to move to (and ultimately settle on) Ubuntu. Its not perfect but a hell of a lot better than stock Xandros. I had a play with the stock ASUS install for a while, ... http://www.glenscott.net/2008/12/11/ubuntu-netbook-remix-on-asus-eeepc-eee-pc/ My recently aquired (used) asus eee pc 701 came with XP installed and no support CD/DVD. I wanted to get rid of XP and have a play with the stock linux O/S instead: I expected this to be an easy gimmie, but it was not, and ate up an evenings ... http://www.glenscott.net/2008/11/12/restore-an-eee-pc-701-back-to-factory-xandros-from-a-usb-stick-with-no-asus-support-dvd/ Traveled down south on the weekend to see a live demonstration of High Voltage Tesla Coils in action: a 2 hour drive but well worth it. It was a small invite only group at the Tesla guy Peters house, where it was being filmed for a show on the Dutch ... http://www.glenscott.net/2008/11/09/high-powered-tesla-coil-demonstration/ After the last rant on Windows Mobile networking, I'll go over a few actual solutions to the issues I encountered: hopefully a few people may find this more helpful. Note that the following explanations, definitions of features and so on are the product of my own observation and experimentation with various ... http://www.glenscott.net/2008/11/04/windows-mobile-56-networking-profiles-proxy-and-vpn-setup/ I've just discovered an incredibly annoying bug downgrade "feature" in the new firefox (3) - the new add-search-plugins site is broken. I noticed it in later versions of firefox 2.x as well: I was kind of hoping it was something temporary but it looks like its here to stay. (Quick solution: ignore the site the "Add engines" link takes you to and go to mycroft.mozilla.org instead ... http://www.glenscott.net/2008/07/07/adding-search-plugins-to-firefox-is-now-broken-by-default/ I recently wrote this bash script for the purpose of a simple selective backup on one of our linux servers. It tars up a bunch of files and copies them to a windows / SMB server elsewhere on the network (where it is then backed up to tape as per ... http://www.glenscott.net/2008/05/10/simple-quick-and-dirty-linux-to-smb-copy-backup-script-using-smbfs/ Yeah I know theres seventy thousand or so articles out there already talking about modifying wp_list_pages(); to include and exclude various pages from your wordpress site menus, but I'm going to talk about they way I did it anyway =) The deal is, I'm wanting to publish stories and other standalone ... http://www.glenscott.net/2008/04/15/creating-hidden-pages-in-wordpress-which-dont-appear-in-the-navigation-menu/ In this post I'm going to briefly discuss the issues I've had getting my new X61 notebook booting with 4 OS's, (Windows Vista, Windows XP, Ubuntu, Backtrack) encrypted. Preamble: Our new staff laptops are pretty fantastic. Faculty has an initiative subsidizing the cost of deploying tablet notebooks to all schools in ... http://www.glenscott.net/2008/03/30/quad-boot-with-linux-xp-and-encrypted-vista-on-the-lenovo-x61-tablet/ The time is apon me for a bit of a rant about Windows Mobile, specifically with regards to its approach to networking profiles. I've been spoiling for a write up on the topic for a while: ever since the PocketPC days, networking on PDAs with windows O/S has been, ... http://www.glenscott.net/2007/11/16/a-hall-of-mirrors-configuring-windows-mobile-networking-and-the-gremlins-therein/ Being a Computer Science Department with an interest in keeping our tech up to date, we replace desktop and other machines regularly. This results in a surplus of older but still servicable hardware: one of the ideal purposes for this sort of situation is clustering, if you can do it ... http://www.glenscott.net/2007/10/09/the-cluster-project-part-1-the-beginning/