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Lately I had bought several el-cheapo USB-ethernet modules for work. I needed cheap ones just to run a tftp server on an aging P4 machine running on Fedora 12.

I got this off dealextreme.com for less than $5. I’ve read the reviews and it seems to work pretty well on Windows. It’s severely cheap looking and […]

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Many of us who have tried Fedora 13 are facing the issue of not having unrar (a basic program to untar your .tar file) because of the “free software” issue of Fedora’s repos. Hence, we get messages like:
 failed to locate unrar in path
when trying to untar a file using Ark. The easiest way to solve […]

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I’ve got an e-mail lately from a reader which reads,
“Hey dude, I’ve been looking for a solution to copy files from a remote Windows PC to a Linux PC without installing any free programs. My company only has PuTTY on Windows XP and I can’t seem to use scp like how we usually use it […]

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Windows 7 comes with an option that allows an Administrator to easily allow/prevent other users (with no admin rights) to run executable programs. This works well especially if you share your PC with guests and you would not want them to run unnecessary programs. Or it could be just to prevent your less tech-savvy Dad […]

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With the recent release of Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala, there have been posts on problems getting the Huawei USB dongles to work. After doing a simple search, it seems that this problem lies with a bug in the kernel and bug fixes are on the way. For the meantime, here are two ways to […]

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If you happen to have a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, you would have realized how bad the memory leakage problem is. Prior to this application (which I will introduce in a while), one will either have to soft-reset their WM phone every few/several days or to use a less-superior memory release program. The former is […]

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So I’ve been given a Final Year Project that deals with vehicular communication on a VANET (Vehicle Ad-hoc Network). It involves hardware implementation of an embedded system modules to a car’s CAN-BUS so as to communicate with the car’s ECUs and between cars themselves. If everything goes well, this would probably be implemented in luxury […]

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The motivation for this “HOW-TO” started when I was doing some coding on my Ubuntu. Although some may prefer in-built text editors with syntax colouring like Gedit, I still prefer Vim for its ease in usage. This is just a simple how-to for those in need.
Vim had served me well before on Fedora but somehow […]

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I would neither go into detail about the recent sex scandals (this is a tech blog anyway) nor post any links to the pictures (I’m sure those looking for it already has copies of them in their HDD). In fact, I’m not even sure why it is made into such a big fuss? (Haven’t you […]

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Recently I wrote a post on an MSN virus which has been fooling people around the world into downloading it by using infected computers to send a message that goes something similar to this:
Hey, is this your picture? :S http://www.msnimages.net/images/viewimage.php?=abc@hotmail.com
The infected computer would then be a the next zombie host which will spread the […]

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