Category Archives: Networking

A Tale of Two Services

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Nosbig

Yesterday afternoon, my girlfriend discovered a particularly large volume of voicemails on her phone, after having cleaned out her mail box just 36 hours prior.  She listened to several blank voicemails, as well as one from someone who wanted us … Continue reading →

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Lingering Projects

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Nosbig

Over the course of the last few months, I have come across a few projects that I have not taken the opportunity to work on, and I really should. The following projects are on my short list of things to … Continue reading →

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Wireless Streaming Media Server

Posted on March 8, 2004 by Nosbig

Today, I am finishing up my Streaming Media Server. It will wirelessly share music streams and setting up in-house file sharing for my music.\n\nThe hardware included a Thinkpad 390E from IBM (333 MHz Pentium II, 192MB RAM, 6 GB hard … Continue reading →

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Winmodem, Schwinmodem

Posted on February 12, 2003 by Nosbig

Of course, I had solved this problem once with Mandrake installed, but I was just lazy about getting the modem in this laptop working. Fortunately for me, the internal Winmodem is a Lucent Technologies chipset that just happens to have … Continue reading →

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Shorewall Problems Solved

Posted on February 12, 2003 by Nosbig

In my last entry, I was complaining about how I wasn’t able to get my laptop to work either at home or at school. My major problem was dealing with the issue of how to treat my wireless and wired … Continue reading →

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Problems with Shorewall

Posted on February 10, 2003 by Nosbig

Over the last few days, I have been struggling with getting Shorewall to open up the holes I want in the firewall on my laptop so that I can browse the web, use AIM, and such. Defiant is behind a … Continue reading →

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New TechTV Chat

Posted on February 5, 2003 by Nosbig

TechTV just yesterday released the newest iteration of their chat, and it is quite a nice system. They decided to run Jabber on an in-house server. This is likely a wise decision due to their problem in the past with … Continue reading →

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Fetchmail Problems

Posted on December 10, 2002 by Nosbig

Over the last few days, I have been having a problem with receiving my mail via fetchmail, but other methods were working fine. Since I was able to receive other sorts of internet data, web pages, IM, and the like. … Continue reading →

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Wifi Kicks Ass!

Posted on September 30, 2002 by Nosbig

Oh, I love the wireless internet stuff. I just bought a wireless card from Linksys last Thursday, and I got it set up in Linux and an using it right now to surf the 802.11b network at NC State. Once … Continue reading →

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Mid-Ohio Home Show

Posted on March 7, 2002 by Nosbig

I spent some time at Habitat today, working on the network, but was alone for the first time in a great while. The rest of the crew was out at the Richland County Fairgrounds setting up for the Home Show. … Continue reading →

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