Tag: tech:yes
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Open Source Software inside the iPhone
Can Open Source Software be more ubiquitous than this ? A few days ago I was playing extensively with Apple’s iPhone, investigating each sub-menu and little details. There is a section listing legal stuff and software being used with each license. GPL, LGPL, BSD and other Open Source licensed software rule the iPhone. Some I…
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How to Make High Quality DVD Rips
After a long study of months I found this method to be the best way to rip/encode or backup my DVDs. The resulting digital file uses the best standards and technologies (as H.264, MP4, Matroska, AC3 etc), looks practically lossless to human eyes and has reasonable good file size (about 1 to 1.4GB per movie).
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Zeroconf your Network
I remember the days when I was configuring DNS and DHCP for a small home network with only 2 or 3 computers. This is not needed anymore since the invention of Zeroconf. As Wikipedia says, “is a set of techniques that automatically create a usable IP network without configuration or special servers. This allows inexpert…
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New Laptop
I am sort of away this days because I got a new laptop. Check it out. My previous laptop was a IBM Thinkpad T40, Pentium M, 512MB RAM, 1024×768 screen size, CD-RW, Cisco WiFi/b, no bluetooth. Served me well for 4 years. The new one is a Lenovo Thinkpad T61, Intel Centrino Pro (dual core),…
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Renumbering Categories in WordPress Blogs
There are some situations you may want to manually change (or hack) the category numbers of your WordPress.org blog. Here is how. Supose you have posts category named “Wine” with ID 15 and you want it to become 1015. You probably already have some posts categorized as “Wine” too and you want to make the…
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Basic Subversion Repository Management
(This is a shared personal note, suggestions are welcome.) Create a Subversion repository for a project, say The SVG Blog Icons: Create the repository on the hosting panel with a project name (e.g. Blog Icons) and project ID (e.g. blogicons). Import the files: bash$ cd src/ bash$ ls blogicons bash$ export EDITOR=vi bash$ svn -m…
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Nokia E Series with Wireless LEAP Authentication
So looks like some people are having problems to configure LEAP in their Nokia E-series phones as E61i or others. This is a guide: Go to Settings->Connection->Access Points Create a new access point with any name you want Use the following configuration: Data bearer: Wireless LAN WLAN network name: the SSID of your WLAN which…
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How to Get Attacked
I noticed Oded’s blog was attacked which makes me remember some things: I was once invited to analyze a Linux machine that was invaded. I ended up writing an article about it to the brazilian Linux Magazine. The problem with the machine was a VERY weak root passw0rd. We could also find the tools they…
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Install Java on Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE with RPM
A concise guide on how to correctly install Java in RPM-based systems with the JPackage standard. Get Java correctly integrated into Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE and others.
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Fedora Post-installation Configurations
A short and practical guide on how to install proprietary technologies on Fedora Linux. Get MP3, DivX/Xvid, MP4, AVI, Flash, and fonts installed easily on Fedora Linux.