Category Archives: Computing

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Taming the Edgy Eft

Posted on 4 March, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

Issue 25/2006 of the c’t magazine included a DVD with the (at that point) new Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Linux distribution. And because the grass is always greener on the other side on the other side of the fence I … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X and NIS … just not good friends

Posted on 16 February, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

When I started using a Power Mac G4 running Mac OS X as desktop machine a year ago I decided to use NIS and NFS on the machine. That would allow me to share data easily and kept my personal … Continue reading →

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Wireless Security

Posted on 24 January, 2007 by Matthias Scheler

Quoting from a dialog I had on IRC recently: *Me* Your neighbour allows you to share his broadband via his WLAN? *He* Yes, and we use a MAC address access list to stop other from doing the same. *Me* But … Continue reading →

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