I had a small Technical Epiphany the other day that I wanted to share. I got Ethernet Aliasing to work with Ubuntu Gutsy Linux and it turns out to be quite simple in retrospect. Why might you want to do such a thing? In my case, to tweak my Wireless settings while I used the Internet. My Buffalo AirStation Wireless Bridge was working poorly and I needed status to help debug it. I really wanted to access two different IP networks, without routing, on the same physical wire at the same time without buying a new Ethernet card - which in the dark past would have been the "proper" way to do this.

Installing fax modem on Ubuntu Dapper LTS

• Hardware: U.S. Robotics 56K FAX EXT V5.4.62
• Software: efax-0.9a

Modem testing

• minicom -s
• Serial device: /dev/ttyS0
• Exit
• ati - 5601 expected

Printer setup

• System, Administration, Printing, New Printer
• Network Printer, HP JetDirect, host:localhost, port:9900, Forward
• Manufacturer: Raw, Model:Queue, Forward
• Name: fax, Apply

Software setup

• apt-get install efax-gtk
• Application, Office, Efax-gtk
• File, Settings
• Identity: Name:, Number:
• Modem:, Serial Device: TTYS0
• Logging:, Log file: /home/...
• Page, Page size:, Letter
• OK

Address Book Setup

I have a mailing list hosted by LSNet. I'd like to periodically get a copy of the subscriber list by email.

if you  start and stop apache quickly .. you can get linux to an odd state where it won't start apache again.  usually my job is to find these things.  someone today told me I was all wet. looking for sanity check.

After a reboot, I click the Firefox Icon and the disk whirls but Firefox doesn't start. After that nothing else will start either.

All aspiring webmasters with a keyboard like to think of themselves as "professionals". http://vekon.com is about a professional consultant not about a professional webmaster.

The content is all about the owner of the website not the people implementing it. In this case, Rob Varley has written dozens of articles about the economics of international development. His portfolio is best rendered, in large part, as a bibliography. His interests are best served when individual citations can be downloaded and incorporated into new articles. The greater the number of references, the better search position. Better search position leads to more retainer possibilities at better rates.

So how did we do it?

Yesterday Jane Doe accidentally (I hope) kicked the plug out of the wall
and the AMDx86-64 server (lnx_srv1 IP address redacted) got corrupted
somewhere in the boot script. That is the scanning EOBs and web
database server. It goes through the boot process up to loading
clam-av, and it hangs after that.

I can boot it failsafe, and I can make it work like before with the
following at the command line.

service httpd start (apachectl start didn't seem to do anything)
service mysqld start
service sshd start (so I can talk to it)
service crond start (so it will rsync the other computers to home)
rsync is already running
chown apache.apache /dev/sg2 (to allow the web scripts to run the scanner)

So 1) can I find out what follows clam-av in the boot script and see if
I can remove or repair it?

Knoppix is an operating system which boots from a CD or DVD without changing the contents of the hard disk. For that reason, it is of particular interest to Microsoft Windows users whose system won't boot or is so slimed with Malware that it is unusable.

In the first case, a Windows computer with a corrupted operating system, Knoppix will configure Ethernet (and USB ports) and your hard disk. Then you can move your precious data files that you should have backed up but didn't to an external device (like an external hard disk or memory stick).

In the second case, a slimed computer, you can mount the Windows partition and then change its status to read/write. Now you can delete those pesky Trojans and virii that your anti virus and spy ware programs could detect but Windows would not let you delete them (you did write down the paths - didn't you).

There is a new Wine help and discussion forum, wine-forum.org that is meant to be a meeting place for anyone interested in Wine usage or development. In the past there there has never been a single forum dedicated solely to Wine. The lack of a single forum has left people to post Wine related help and discussions in other forums. At the moment most users turn to their Linux distribution forum where Wine is often a sub-forum at most and questions often go unanswered.

I found this on the Ubuntu user forums, thanks goes out to (deadlydeathcone) here is his post.

A script called winefix. In short, it allows Wine applications to be run just as easily as those native to Linux, meaning that they can be linked to or run from any directory, whether from a terminal or even a file manager like nautilus. It also handles some of the more awkward Wine extensions like .lnk and .msi, akkowing them to be run with a double click.