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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In my “job” as the weekend admin of my wife’s primary schools IT systems, I have to re-install the schools wireless setup – when the movers worked in the school during summer break, they broke the main DSL WiFi Router, [...]
I’m spending another beautiful sunny afternoon in my wife’s primary school. The school bought a Windows based learning software (Oriolus) which we had previously successfully tested to run on WINE.
So, it’s install WINE on 15 PCs, configure, create the required “My Documents” folder, copy the server software over (for some strange reason running from an [...]
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function – telnet enabled.
for initiating the connection for firstime.
1) flash it
2) open opera and go to url: “file://localhost/usr/data_resource/oss/telnet .csh ”
3) switch telephone to USB-Lan mode – open RSD Lite and wait ~30 seconds.
4) telnet 192.168.16.2
Trying 192.168.16.2…
Connected to 192.168.16.2.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
Mobilinux(TM) 4.1
Linux/armv6l 2.6.10_dev
(none) login: root
Mobilinux(TM) 4.1
Must. Get. One.
The Ubuntu installation in my wife’s primary school is doing well so far. We hit a lot of scepticism initially, the local paper even reported that the PCs “only run Linux”. In daily work (mainly Firefox and OpenOffice Writer) everything works fine.
The main complaint was that the school couldn’t use their Windows based learning software [...]
Tim is looking for a portable Antivirus solution to carry around on a USB stick.
My recommendation would be ClamWin Portable. Alternatively, you could use a Linux Live distribution that boots from USB, like the Inside Security Rescue Toolkit or a similar distribution.
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- Tags: antivirus, clamwin, knoppicilin, linux, portable apps, usb stick
Recently we managed to fund the purchase of 16 new computers in my wife’s primary school. The old hardware were Pentium III 500 MHz boxes running Windows 98. When I connected the computer room to the DSL router (Linksys WRT54G running DD-WRT), they were all crying for security updates.
I wasn’t going to put Windows 98 [...]
Dreamlinux
Originally uploaded by fkoehn.
Shit, that REALLY looks great… gotta try that LiveCD…
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- Tags: dreamlinux, linux, livecd
Jim points me to VMWare Player and a whole bunch of ready-to-run “appliances”, i.e. VMWare images for different operating systems and purposes.
Excellent way to try different Linux distros, or to run personal stuff on the work lappy…
Also interesting: DamnSmallLinux
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