Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

I was really happy a while back when ConfigMGR SP1 was announced, the fact that Microsoft made it possible to install the ConfigMGR client on OSX was really nice, albeit there are other nice features this one made me happy. But ConfigMGR 2012 SP1 doesn’t stop there it has support for Linux and Unix to. [...]

I’ve been asking myself this for a while now. 64-bit has been a standard for several years now and still computers are sold with 32-bit operating systems. Why is this? The only reliable 64-bit OS I’ve used was my MacBook Pro which I sold. It worked and I never really had any driver issues with [...]

Getting wireless network working on CentOS 5 and Thinkpad T42

Posted: 15th December 2008 by Mats Hellman in Linux
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I pulled an old IBM Thinkpad T42 to use as a “light” and “mobile” laptop on the daily train ride to Helsinki. It’s not new but more than usable with 768Mb RAM and CentOS 5 installed. This gives me a full development environment to work with on the train. What I noticed was the problem to get the wireless network up on this thing.

Installing Microsoft Corefonts on CentOS 5

Posted: 12th December 2008 by Mats Hellman in Linux
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This is a thing I always have to google when I need to install Microsoft’s fonts in my CentOS installs so I thought I’d post a short dirty note here to remind me how to do it.

First of all we need some tools to build ourselves the RPM for msttcorefonts, so fire up your terminal and

Using htaccess to create a subdomain on apache

Posted: 20th February 2008 by Mats Hellman in Linux
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I’ve been thinking of starting a blog to keep my thoughts and ideas together in one place. To do this I wanted to use a simple subdomain to nixadmins.net like blog.nixadmins.net.