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The DE Bill, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tor

“The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together.”

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2010 04 09 Bolster Commentary
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Mod_Rewrite in Apache2

Just incase you forget how to fix this the easy way: Enable mod_rewrite for URL voodoo

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2010 04 01 Bolster Instructional Comments (0)

What to do when Ubuntu Device-mapper seems to be invincible!

I’ve been trying a dozen different configurations of my 2x500GB SATA drives over the past few days involving switching between ACHI/IDE/RAID in my bios (This was after trying different things to solve my problems with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx) ; After each attempt I’ve reset the bios option, booted into a live CD, deleting partitions and [...]

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2010 03 26 Bolster Instructional Comments (4)

My Experience with Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

Updates(26/3/10): Thought I’d give the liveCD another go (this time using the dailyx64 image and using unetbootin), thinking it must be something simple; so during boot i just kept pressing escape, before the splash screen came up. This got me around the splash screen issue and it seems as if everything is fine. Also, I [...]

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2010 03 24 Bolster Off-Topic Comments (7)

Installing and Configuring NS-3 on a Ubuntu System

NS-3 Appears to have a staggeringly steep learning curve so I hope these posts help out someone else (or me, when i forget all this in a month).

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2010 03 14 Bolster Instructional Comments (0)

Mercurial Quick Start Cheatsheet

I hadn’t used Mercurial before so I thought it might be a good idea to leave a reminder for me and anyone else who comes across it… For tidyness, I do all of my dev-stuff (Subversion, Mercurial, CVS, Git etc) under ~/src and only take root privileges when its needed; any good makefile should relocate [...]

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2010 03 13 Bolster Instructional Comments (3)

Ubuntu / Windows Sharing a Dropbox folder on NTFS

Take one Dual-Boot laptop, with three partitions: /dev/sda1:Windows File System /dev/sda2:Linux File System /dev/sda3:Data Partition I already had Dropbox installed on the Windows side and didn’t want to have things duplicated on the linux side, problem is Ubuntu currently does not mount internal drives automatically on boot, so every time I fired up Ubuntu, I [...]

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2010 01 24 Bolster Instructional Comments (3)

My conkyrc

Contents (what you get out of this)Weather, HDDtemp, UL/DL speed and cumulative meters, CPU load, Folding@Home status, Remote transmission download status (could be local, easy change), gmail status, RAM usage, Uptime, Date/Time, ToDo list These all automatically update dependant on the execi variable. Preface (What you need to get this all working)Linux OS (Ubuntu?)Conky (obv, [...]

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2008 10 27 Bolster Instructional Comments Off

Getting Skype to work with weird webcams.

I’ll keep this as informative. If your webcam works in ubuntu (I’m running the 8.10 RC atm, fantastic btw) under cheese but not with skype, I did a bit of digging and cheese uses v4l2 (the ‘new’ webcam api) which inherently screws up skype that uses v4l1. So, its easy enough since i came across [...]

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2008 10 25 Bolster Instructional Comments Off

Primers Coming Up

Thru my work I’m thrown into alot of technologies that i dont nearly know enough about and as with alot of tech related things, the education scene is basic basic basic..GURU with little or no gradiation, so what I’m going to do is post what i learn when i learn it and where i learn [...]

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2008 09 24 Bolster Off-Topic Comments Off