wifi

Splashtop to Ship ASUS Motherboards With Linux Preinstalled On BIOS

by on May 15, 2008 · 0 comments

In what I think is the biggest victory for Linux so far, DeviceVM’s Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards.

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How to Access Network When Everything Else is Blocked

by on December 17, 2007 · 1 comment

There is a program called Ping Tunnel to send TCP traffic over ICMP. From the project home page: Ptunnel is an application that allows you to reliably tunnel TCP connections to a remote host using ICMP echo request and reply packets, commonly known as ping requests and replies. At first glance, this might seem like [...]

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Nokia E90 Review (Good for sys admins)

by on July 26, 2007 · 1 comment

I’m still stuck with Blackberry and Nokia 6130, good folks at Osnews has posted a nice review of Nokia E90 business phone: The E90 is a Communicator-class device and very popular among businessmen, but also among system administrators too (one of our friends, sysadmin at Google, is using Nokia’s qwerty/wifi devices specifically for SSH access). [...]

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Why Linux don’t support mp3 and selected wifi cards out of the box?

by on November 10, 2006 · 33 comments

This question is asked again and again. Why Linux don’t support mp3, allow watching DVDs and selected wifi cards out of the box? Short answer – copyright/IP laws prevent shipping all these software(s) and technologies/plugins with each Linux distribution. However some distribution comes with all these goodies but they are not free (try Linspire, which [...]

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