Samba File Server Using a Parallel External Hard Drive

January 23rd, 2007 by kwong

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.
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Browser Impersonation

January 20th, 2007 by kwong

Sometimes it is necessary to impersonate a certain browser type.
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Enable Mouse Scrolling in FreeBSD 6.2

January 19th, 2007 by kwong

After I installed FreeBSD 6.2, I found out that my wheeled Microsoft Mouse does not support scrolling any more.
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BASH Text Coloring Settings for FreeBSD

January 15th, 2007 by kwong

By default FreeBSD (in my case, the most recent 6.2 version) installs sh as the standard shell.
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HTML Encoded Captcha Not Necessarily More Secure

January 9th, 2007 by kwong

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.
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Flash Drive Stress Test

January 5th, 2007 by kwong

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).
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2Wire Gateway “Router behind Router” Problem Update

January 4th, 2007 by kwong

About half a year ago, I mentioned that I had some problems of running VMWare while using 1701HG Gateway.
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LCD Vs. CRT – Dell’s False Advertising

January 2nd, 2007 by kwong

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).
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