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Updating firmware on Zoom 4501 and 4506 mobile routers from Linux

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...

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Automount of External USB drive to /media/label fails on Ubuntu 10.04

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...

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Using Oregon Scientific RMS300A USB Weather Station with Ubuntu Linux

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...

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Click every ten seconds with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

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....

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Flash update in Ubuntu Linux

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...

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Set up an Ubuntu 9.04 server firewall with UFW

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...

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Welcome to Linux Vector

Welcome to Linux Vector - a little blog about Linux (mainly Ubuntu), webservers and website admin....

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