Updating firmware on Zoom 4501 and 4506 mobile routers from Linux
Saturday, January 22 2011
Trying to update the firmware on Zoom 4506 and 4501 mouter routers fails if you run it from Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu Linux. It appears to load quickly, then stops with a 500 Server Error error message...
Automount of External USB drive to /media/label fails on Ubuntu 10.04
Saturday, November 6 2010
After upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04, the automounting of external USB drives to their label under the /media directory fails, they get mounted as /media/usb0 /media/usb1 etc. It...
Using DTMF touchtones with Localphone and Nokia VOIP
Thursday, June 24 2010
Not really Linux related but this is a bit technical for my other blogs! If you need to use touchtones from a Nokia phone using VOIP with Localphone, there is a code to add to get the right codec to...
Using Oregon Scientific RMS300A USB Weather Station with Ubuntu Linux
Friday, May 28 2010
I've recently brought an Oregon Scientific RMS300A temperature and humidity weather station (they're cheap). This has USB "data logging" output, and I want to connect it to my Ubuntu Linux...
Checking for kernel bug in Rackspace Cloud servers
Saturday, January 2 2010
In the Rackspace Cloud servers there is (at the time of writing) a bug in their .31 kernels for Ubuntu 9.10....
Click every ten seconds with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
Wednesday, December 16 2009
After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, some Intel soundcards (such as that installed in a Lenovo Thinkpad R61) will click every ten seconds if no other sound is being played....
Flash update in Ubuntu Linux
Monday, December 14 2009
Getting Flash updates to work reliably in Firefox in Ubuntu Linux is a common problem, even a simple security update can break it - and did for me. The fix was to make sure ALL traces of Flash have...
What IPs do my domains point to?
Wednesday, December 9 2009
If, like me, you have a large number of domains, many different registrars, many different name servers, and many different web servers, it's easy to forget where you've pointed each domain name....
SSH keep alive
Friday, December 4 2009
Depending on the network you are using, an ssh connection may drop (time out) if you don't do anything active on it for a while. This is easy to fix....
Move phpmyadmin to a different address
Saturday, November 14 2009
By default, phpmyadmin (the essential MySQL admin program for webservers) is installed with an address of /phpmyadmin/ on the default domain on your website. This means that automated scripts can find...
Getting locale failed message when doing apt-get upgrade
Tuesday, November 10 2009
If you're getting "setting locale failed" messages when you're doing an upgrade on a newly-installed server, the cause is as it says - there isn't a locale to set....
Set up an Ubuntu 9.04 server firewall with UFW
Monday, November 2 2009
Setting up a basic, minimalist firewall on your server is easy with ufw (the "uncomplicated firewall"). The example here is for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, but apart from the install should be...
Welcome to Linux Vector
Sunday, November 1 2009
Welcome to Linux Vector - a little blog about Linux (mainly Ubuntu), webservers and website admin....