Today I received my new GSM Modem, a Nokia Internet Stick CS-10. It had the size of an overweight pen-drive and can connect (depending on your service-provider) at speeds up to 7.2Mbps (my contract only goes to 2Mbps).
Here is a picture of the modem, taken from the Nokia site:
As was to be expected, it comes [...]
After some DNS troubles, the new blog is up & running
Something went wrong when I canceled the “CNAME” entry in the DNS server that pointed “blog.nielshorn.net” to the old blogspot site. When I created the new “blog.nielshorn.net” subdomain I couldn’t get it to point at my own server. :-/
But with a little help [...]
As I’ve been using Linux for over a decade, I am asked a lot of questions about my favorite operating system. I don’t consider myself an expert, just an experienced enthusiast
One question that pops up every now and then is about the “ideal” partitioning scheme for Linux.The short answer is that there is [...]
This weekend I tried to help someone on LinuxQuestions.org who asked about the knetworkconf tool from KDEs Control Center.In Slackware this tool hasn’t been working for quite some time, it simply says that our operating system is not supported:
(My KDE is in Portuguese, but you’ll get the idea…)
I never bothered about it, as I prefer [...]
If you want to be sure that your computer clock is accurate – always – you can configure your system to use NTP (Network Time Protocol).
NTP is one of the oldest protocols on the internet and its predecessors, going back to the early eighties. If you are interested in reading a small article about the [...]
Dutch guy living in Brazil. Has worked in the IT business since it was invented (well, almost...). Interests: Slackware, Lego, Star Wars.