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Getting started with S/MIME-encrypted email 27 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Just because you can’t protect the metadata of your email doesn’t mean you don’t have a right to protect the actual content of your messages, whether-or-not you feel you have “nothing to hide.” Would ...
Personalizing your YubiKey in a Windows VMware virtual machine 16 Aug 2013 | 05:21 am
I was initially frustrated at the apparent lack of a ready-built package for customizing the Yubikey for any Linux distro other than Ubuntu, until I found out that you can use a VMware virtual machine...
QoS bug in Netgear WNDR4300 V1.0.1.42 will kill your Internet speed 16 Aug 2013 | 05:12 am
The Netgear WNDR4300 is seemly a great router, with one huge flaw in the QoS system. Without going into a great deal of explanation, Quality of Service (QoS) is a technology that prioritizes network p...
How to add Samba accounts on openSUSE 24 Jul 2013 | 07:46 am
Previously using Ubuntu, I never ran into this issue, but using openSUSE I couldn’t get logged into a Samba share using any user accounts. Turns out, the users have to be added to Samba seperately. Ub...
Installing VMware Workstation serial on Workstation 9.0.2 in Linux 21 Jul 2013 | 10:40 pm
There appears to be a bug in the Linux version of VMware Workstation 9.0.2 in which it will not accept a serial number from the GUI. The solution is to open a terminal and install the serial manually....
Sendmail error “…unable to qualify my own domain name () — using short name” 21 Jul 2013 | 09:40 pm
If you see an error like the following: Apr 23 22:41:01 hostname sm-msp-queue[10210]: unable to qualify my own domain name (hostname) — using short name edit your /etc/hosts file and make sure the dis...
Problems printing in landscape with LibreOffice 3.6 on openSUSE 12.3 21 Jul 2013 | 09:23 pm
I noticed this problem while trying to print something today. Even though the page was formatted to landscape, the printer would still print it in portrait mode. My printer is a Brother HL-2170W using...
openSUSE Dolphin brower gives error “Unable to find any workgroups in your local network. This might be cause by an enabled firewall.” 20 Jul 2013 | 11:39 am
To solve this: Open up YaST > Network Services > Samba Server. Go to the “Identity” tab, and make sure the Workgroup is set correctly, and set Domain Controller to “Not a DC.” Related posts: Erro.....
Problems installing VMware Workstation on openSUSE 12.3 20 Jul 2013 | 04:05 am
If you try to install VMware Workstation 9.0.2 on openSUSE 12.3 it will tell you in cannot find the kernel headers. Here’s the fix(es) First, make sure you are using VMware 9.0.2, as the kernel header...
Amazon S3 s3cmd s3tools on Ubuntu Server 10 Jul 2013 | 07:09 am
If you want tools for Ubuntu Server to automatically sync files to Amazon S3, here’s how to set it up using S3tools First, add the Ubuntu repository and GPG key, as described here: wget -O- -q http://...
