Archive for January 2007
I have a DataStor parallel port external hard drive enclosure bought in 1997 and a laptop computer (Pentium MMX 133, 128M RAM) from around 2001. Continue reading ‘Samba File Server Using a Parallel External Hard Drive’ »
Sometimes it is necessary to impersonate a certain browser type. Continue reading ‘Browser Impersonation’ »
After I installed FreeBSD 6.2, I found out that my wheeled Microsoft Mouse does not support scrolling any more. Continue reading ‘Enable Mouse Scrolling in FreeBSD 6.2’ »
By default FreeBSD (in my case, the most recent 6.2 version) installs sh as the standard shell. Continue reading ‘BASH Text Coloring Settings for FreeBSD’ »
I read an article linked from http://www.omgili.com/captcha.php on SlashDot that illustrates an alternative way of generating Captcha to prevent spam bot attacks. Continue reading ‘HTML Encoded Captcha Not Necessarily More Secure’ »
One of the shortcomings of flash drives is that the read/write cycles are limited and many sources suggest that flash drives are not suitable for frequent reads and writes operations (e.g. using a journaling file system). Continue reading ‘Flash Drive Stress Test’ »
About half a year ago, I mentioned that I had some problems of running VMWare while using 1701HG Gateway. Continue reading ‘2Wire Gateway “Router behind Router” Problem Update’ »
So why should you buy an LCD instead of a CRT monitor? Well, an LCD is flat, lighter, more power efficient, and its viewable screen size is the same as the stated size (as opposed to CRT). Continue reading ‘LCD Vs. CRT – Dell’s False Advertising’ »