Archive for March 24th, 2008
Sharing printers with CUPS
Well now that the wifi is sorted out (ish) for the time being, I’m moving onto printing. Recently both my desktop (at home) and laptop (at work) have started having issues printing – printers seem to accept the request but just ditch it (as if it is incomplete or scrambled). As part of the diagnosis, [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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WPA, Xen and other problems
Today I finally encrypted my wi-fi link. It’s always been locked down by MAC address, but that’s pretty weak really. This unfortunately has been rather involved, firstly the changes to hostap (which I use to turn my wireless card into a wireless hostspot: # WPA (0×1) and WPA2 (0×2) wpa=3 wpa_passphrase=not in my blog wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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Know it all
Just had a fab weekend when some friends came round and visisted. Little chilly outside (it snowed a bit) to stay outside for long, but we managed to fly some kits (after spending quite some time untangling them – kite tails seem to serve a secondary purpose as something for all the string to catch [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Life.
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