Blog By Farrow…
Ok now next problem that I ran into in trying to get qmail running on the distrubution is that checkpassword-0.90 doesnt want to compile and looking on the web there is 1 arabic website explaining how to get around this which I cant understand but with again more pain I have finally cracked it. In the source directory of checkpassword… Continue reading Checkpassword-0.90 Compilation Error on Fedora Core 3
Now for a long long time I have been perplexed by why my firewall never works on my linux boxes on initial boot. When you run iptables –list is shows all the rules but never works until you run it again under the root account. Now I finally got around to finding out why and its because the ipv4 forwarding is… Continue reading IPTABLES doesn't work on initial boot
Something that I was suffering from when I tried to use ftp on linux, everytime I tried to do ‘ls’ to list the files FTP would freeze and not seem to do anything. After quite a lot of pain, I noticed that a few of the important modules had not been loaded for the firewall – IPTABLES. You must have… Continue reading FTP on Linux Freezes on command – ls
Fedora no longer installs the source for its installations so if you need to rebuild the kernel you will need to get the source the easiest way is as follows: up2date –get-source kernel Install kernel-.src.rpm (given the default RPM configuration, the files this package contains will be written to /usr/src/redhat/) [NOTE: if this fails you should find the kernel src… Continue reading Getting the Source Code for the Kernel of Linux Fedora 3 Distribution
Recently I built the linux-atm software, which is an atm utility which allows me to use my pci ADSL card on linux. The latest release is version 2.4.1 which I pulled down off of sourceforge, and I then tried to compile it. This is what I fell fowl of.. 1. The source has four compilation errors which are at lines with… Continue reading Building the Linux-ATM software on Fedora Core 3 on a VIA C3 Processor
Had a chat with my old mate Rick Marden last night. Same old stuff what are we going to do to make us millionares? Were like a couple of old boys when we get together on the telephone. Any way he is alive and well and looking toward the future of 2005 for all those that know him. Infact he… Continue reading My Old Mate Rick
Well its the first day of the new year – 2005. Its been raining here in the UK but quite mild for the time of the year. Lets hope this year is better than the last, happy new year !!
All over for another year will have to take down the tree soon, new year in a little while … At least little Scruffy had a good time, he got a new green fishy toy !! (above pictures of Scruffy taken with mobile phone camera on the SPV C500 mentioned in the below post)
I saw a couple of weeks ago that Orange are now doing the new SPV C500 Microsoft Smart Phone as a free upgrade, so thought I would take advantage of that when my plan was up for renewal. Initial thoughts on the new phone is that it is lightweight and bulk free compared to the other phone and it seems not… Continue reading SPV C500 replaces my old SPV E200 on an Orange Tariff
Had to add some new terminal server licenses today for a client of mine and had a whale of a time. Installed the licenses which seemed to work no problem, then when I tried to connect to the remote machine kept getting the error that it couldnt connect due to “No Terminal Server License Servers”. Then tried to ring Microsoft… Continue reading Terminal Services and Licensing: No Terminal Server License Servers