Oliver Hansen

This is the first in some posts that will be from the wiki I use at work. I’ll remove the work-specific details but leave the general info for others to use. Many of it is compiled from different MS Knowledge Base articles. (more…)

I just installed Linux mint KDE CE on my desktop computer. I love it! It’s great and looks brilliant with the advanced desktop effects that my laptop couldn’t produce last time. Well there was one thing that I remembered from last time. It’s really more of an annoyance than anything but when booting up you see a message that says

The solution was found by clem on the linux mint forum. Apparently

A grub on a separate /boot partition cannot access /etc. Known bug.

but because if it is changed it will not work if /boot is on the same partition there is no default fix for it right now. As mentioned in the post, the solution is “in menu.lst change /etc/grub/message.mint to /grub/message.mint”. Have fun!

I wasn’t sure if there was a way to do this but I found you can actually change the type of record you are looking up in windows with nslookup. After opening the nslookup console by typing nslookup at the command prompt, simply type:
set type=mx
I also found you can set type to any other lookup (ptr, a) and find the results. Nice and easy.

I think I just found my new router. I’ve been thinking of getting a new one because I have problems with my current one. I’m really not sure if it’s the router or my laptop but I wanted to get a new one anyways that I could put some of the open source firmware on. Something like Tomatoe or DD-WRT… but which router to get? Linksys has been crippling their WRT54G router with less flash memory which means it doesn’t have enough space to load the popular firmwares. Whether this was intentional is open to interpretation I guess but what is definitely intentional is Netgear releasing a router specifically to be modified by whatever Open Source firmware you want!

It looks like they’ve had some packaging issues with the wrong router being sent from some suppliers but it seems they are working on it so I will soon be purchasing one of these WGR614L routers.

So they’re trying to break some record or something with how many people download it on the first day of release but I don’t see it up on their site yet. However, if you go to the download page and just copy one of the links that is there you will see the url with the product name. Change the number to 3.0 and http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US there you go!

I’m sure it will be on www.spreadfirefox.com soon but for now you can get it at that link!