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OK, so far I can’t see much other than games that can be played on your iPod, but the idea that iPod Linux – Linux for your iPod exists is pretty cool. Presumably if you can mount it then there’s all sorts of possibilities. In the Modules section are all sorts of games like Doom. [...]
Fri, September 14 2007 » Linux setup » No Comments
I got a little further with the checkpw package which specifically looks for passwords in the ~/Maildir/.password file. So I know this works. I also know that I can Telnet to port 143 of the mailserver (don’t try it, it’s disabled), but usefully “update-inetd –enable telnet” is a useful command line trick which can be [...]
Wed, April 26 2006 » Linux setup » No Comments
After some painful and frustrating moments it’s time to admit that despite having spent a long time trying to get things working, qmail and subsequently Squirrelmail have failed me. Qmail on POP3, squirrelmail on the basic login part (111 error message) I have tested the setup, installed checkpassword, bincimap and tried all the telnet stuff [...]
Tue, April 25 2006 » Linux setup » No Comments
Mon, February 20 2006 » Linux setup » Comments Off
I’m getting to grips a little more with Slackware on the laptop now. Having been away for a while I came back with it mind that I really need to get connected to a network. So I went to the book at the Slackware site and checked to see how I could do this. Apparently [...]
Thu, September 30 2004 » Linux setup » No Comments
I’ve just picked a copy of Slackware 10 which was on the front of a magazine. I’ve meddled with other installations for this old laptop (HP Omnibook Xe2) without much joy, mostly due to a lack of command-line knowledge, so FreeBSD ultimately failed previously. I’d also tried doing an ‘easy’ installation for RedHat9 which told [...]
Thu, August 12 2004 » Linux setup » No Comments
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