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Killer Note-taking App

Monday, September 7th, 2009

I’m back to school as of Aug. 24th for my junior year at UHV.
This semester I’m trying to keep all of my notes and school related activities in electronic form, so I’ve been looking for an app to assist.
I’ve tried a bunch of tools, including Tomboy, Zim, Notalon, and others.
But today I found KeepNote. [...]

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SSH tunnel chaining

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Let’s say you have a server (server1) running a web app on port 9080 inside a firewalled vlan (vlan 1). Only ssh traffic on port 22 is allowed in to this vlan, and only from second management vlan (vlan 2). You are not in either of these vlans, but you can access a [...]

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A recent project required the automated upload of a file to a TumbleWeed (now SecureTransport) server. The project uses a password-protected digital certificate for authentication. The file upload is being done from a linux host, so I can’t use the provided windows-only client. cURL to the rescue!
To get started, concatenate your private [...]

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Wireless on a T60 with openSUSE 11

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Note to self:
To get the wireless (AR5212) working on a T60:

Compile madwifi from source (don’t bother with the openSUSE 11 repo)
Add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf.local:

blacklist ath5k
install ath_pci /sbin/modprobe –ignore-install ath_pci; /usr/sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3
options ath_pci autocreate=sta
alias ath0 ath_pci

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This post is just a place for me to keep track of the tweaks necessary for installing SLED10 SP2 on a Thinkpad T60.

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Lotus Notes 7.0.3 under Wine

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I just thought I’d post this info here because this application is listed on http://www.winehq.org as broken.
To get Lotus Notes 7.0.3 (or 8.0 Basic) working under wine in Linux (using opensuse 10.3 here), perform the following:
Download wine-0.9.19 from sourceforge here. The link is for suse rpms, but other packages are available from WineHQ Downloads.
Remove [...]

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