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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Upgrading the miniPCI wireless card in a Thinkpad X31

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

A few years ago when I first bought it, I installed a Lucent Technologies Prism based mini-pci wifi card in my IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X31 laptop because the prism chipset had good linux support.  But, it does not support WPA2 encryption. I decided the easiest fix was to upgrade to an Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 Lan adapter, [...]

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Finding hosts in new known_hosts files which are hashed

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Older versions of SSH kept a ~/.ssh/knwn_hosts file which contained the name of each server you had connected to, along with it's public key. If you ever wanted to erase a public key, you simply edited the file with your favorite text editor, found the name of the server, and then deleted that line. (You [...]

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Adding custom headers (such as Approved:) to Thunderbird mail

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Sometimes you want to send email or newsgroup posts with custom headers. For example, the Approved: header can be used to post to a restricted "Announce" newsgroup for a class, or you may want to mark your email with an "X-No-Arc: yes" header to prevent a mailing list archive from saving a copy. 
The easy way [...]

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