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Posted in (Re)solve, Appliances, Computers on Feb 15th, 2008
Quite a mouthfull, but it is exactly what I’ve been trying to accomplish the past few weeks. Not an easy thing, or so it turned out. Apart from the CheckPoint Management interface, an Edge has two interfaces accessible by normal human beings. HTTPS (port 981, mostly) SSH When being responsible for management on and monitoring [...]
Bluetoothing with Debian seems not to be as straight forward as one might wish. Pairing, for instance, is not done ‘the normal way’ by the ‘pin_helper’ application. No, you need to have the ‘passkey_agent’ process running (part of the bluez-utils package) prior to pairing. There are probably more than one agents but I’m using the [...]
It came in a nice small box, just large enough to contain a monitor, the boring stuff (legal notices, warranty) and cables. Yes people, some companies still deliver cables with their hardware. Very nice, Samsung! Installation of course, a peace of cake. Windows didn’t even mention seeing a new monitor at all. Everything seemed well [...]
Posted in Linux on Apr 20th, 2007
Why, this was a nasty one! As I very much like nifty tools and gadgets on my computer, I have installed Beryl on my Debian laptop. Quite the bleeding edge technology, that. Quite nice too, if it works. Which it didn’t (and still doesn’t) for me. So every time NVidia, in their infinate wisdom, decides [...]