I’m sure that those who deal in wireless know the existence of four tear old Ralink. Ralink does some amazing chipsets with a refined version of what we should have had yesterday and not today. Never the less as I mentioned in a previous post recently , I have bought an Edimax wireless chipset. In Linux you more or less have a few ways of setting it up. One is the native drivers that come from the manufacturer and the other is through an open source project called Rt2×00 which supports quite a few of the Ralink chipsets under Linux. This includes functions such as encryption, traffic monitoring and frame injection. I got it up and running with Ubuntu in only a few moments. This article walks you through on how to get it up and running within five minutes.
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I needed to get Ubuntu 8.04 running as fast as possible on my EEE PC 1000. There were quite a few options such as buying myself a USB dvd-rom drive or converting an IDE to USB drive , etc… The easiest way is to use a thumb drive / usb stick and about five minutes of your time. Here’s how.
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While moving around lately I needed something that could boost up my wireless range a little to help the neighbors offer me their wifi services a little easier. So I figured since I was in London I should shop around and pickup a few basic ingredients to make it happen for me. Here are my new geek toys that helped out on extending my wireless range without a lot of fuss.
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Heads up , new geek toy in the house. I pre-ordered an Asus EEEPC 1000 from Amazon about a month ago and as soon as I arrived in London I found it ready for me. For those of you not aware of the EEE series , they are ultra portable notebooks from Asus that have sold pretty well. The 1000 model is the best so far with many additional features , Intel’s Atom processor and many other improvements in comparison to older models.
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Who would have thought that something so simple could mess things up so bad? I had a serious problem with resume from sleep with my Toshiba running Hardy 8.04. It turned out just by editing one line I fixed it. Here’s how.
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Ubuntu by default can play non-encrypted DVDs however the majority of DVDs today are encrypted. To get around this here is a three step procedure to get your DVD playback going. You won’t find CSS decryption in the repositories and this is why I want to share why it took me more than 30 seconds to get my playback going.
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Recently it was required to test a 40Mbps link between two cities. In the past testing of such links was suggested to be done with iperf. Iperf is a wonderful tool to handle such tests and it successfully displays a lot of data on the link’s throughput , loss , jitter , etc…
This is a bit on how to use iperf and how it can make life easier on testing links , getting assurance tests on link characteristics and so forth.
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