Out of general laziness I’ve been using quite a lot of gnome on ubuntu instead of fluxbox. One of the little things I got used to on fluxbox is resizing windows dragging the right mouse button while holding the alt-button(another one is easy borderless windows for stuff like mplayer). Gnome can do this too, but [...]
Mainly for my own future reference: using this wireless adapter with the ndiswrapper in Ubuntu 6.10 makes the system freeze. However, at least revision 2104 from https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ndiswrapper/trunk/ndiswrapper works fine.
After upgrading from ubuntu dapper to edgy everything seemed to be working fine, except for the vmware server console. This displayed the usual error message vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) After this error the program used to start just fine, but after the upgrade it didn’t do anything besides taking 99% of [...]
Deciding that eth2.42 (the default naming scheme for a 802.1q vlan interface) looked silly, I used /sbin/ip to give it a better name: /sbin/ip link set dev eth2.42 name vlan42 After this, I noticed the vlan42 device showed up in /proc and sysctl with the tunable parameters like other interfaces; sysctl uses “.” as a [...]
When I was trying to set up a sort of transparent proxy with linux and iptables I stumbled upon some interesting behavior by the linux tcp/ip stack and iptables. Being used to regular forwards, I first tried iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 3334 -j DNAT –to-destination 127.0.0.1:3333 This didnt quite work though, [...]