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Mini-ITX, Software, Technical

Getting the Source Code for the Kernel of Linux Fedora 3 Distribution

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

Linux, Mini-ITX, Software, Technical

Building the Linux-ATM software on Fedora Core 3 on a VIA C3 Processor

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

Personal

My Old Mate Rick

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

Personal

January 1st 2005

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 !!

Personal

All Over For Another 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)

Software, Technical

Terminal Services and Licensing: No Terminal Server License Servers

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

Software, Technical

PHP5, MySQL, IIS and WINDOWS 2003 Server

Had some bother with the extensions of php5, php_mysql.dll and libmysql.dll under my latest installation on windows 2003 server.  When using the mysql_connect function to connect to a mysql database kept getting the error message “mysql_drop_db could not be located in the dynamic link library libmysql.dll” Now I had moved the libmysql.dll into the c:\windows\system32 directory, uncommented the extension in… Continue reading PHP5, MySQL, IIS and WINDOWS 2003 Server

Software, Technical

CRUD why you cant afford it

Looking for details on asp.net 2.0 and its official release date I stumbled upon the article on MSDN about “CRUD why you cant afford it”,  this article talks about everything that I have disliked about CRUD for a long time.  I have never really talked up about it though as most people rave or say “you must have CRUD”, when having written systems… Continue reading CRUD why you cant afford it

Hardware, Technical

Voice Over IP

A friend of mine just recommended using Skype which is a voice over IP product.  Had a go and I must say it works very well, I have used other products which are similar and run across the internet and are very choppy but this has fantastic quality.  Plus they have hooked up with telecommunications companies to provide access to… Continue reading Voice Over IP