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Category Archives: Useful Links

Links to resources & pages that I have found useful

Listing of Atlanta/Decatur Digital OTA Channels

A list of the channels easily avaliable with a small amplified Radio Shack antenna from the Decatur Area:

2-1 -WSB-DT - ABC
2-2 (Blank, no signal)
5-1 WAGA - Fox HD
5-2 WAGA - Fox SD
11-1 WXIA-D NBC-HD
11-2 WXIA-D (NBC Weather, All the time!)
14-(1,2,3,4) - Ion subchannels.
17 - WTBS-HD - TBS
30-1 - PBS
36- WATL-D [...]

Enabling the IMAP4/POP3/SSL email client (and other goodies) on a Motorola v3xx phone via SEEM editing

My new Motorola RAZR V3xx phone is Cingular branded, which means that Cingular has added many money making links to it ("Shop Cingular!") and have hidden some of the nicer features that Motorola originally built into the phone. For example, Cingular has hidden the IMAP4/POP3/SSL email client that is built into the phone. Luckily [...]

Creating udev rules to name your devices in Mandriva

I have a Motorola cell phone, and when it is plugged into my linux laptop via a USB cable it appears as a /dev/ttyACM0 device. (Unless I already have an ACM device plugged in, then it appears as /dev/ttyACM1).  BUT, it's much nicer to be able to point my phone programs (such as kmobiletools and [...]

Fixing a GRUB Bootloader (What to do when your computer won’t boot!)

If, for some reason your linux computer won't boot, it could be because the bootloader has gotten correupted.  If you are using GRUB, a few things could have gone wrong, but I will describe how to do a complete re-install of grub, and then set up the boot menu again. The system I was working [...]

List of WiFi Adapters supported by Linux

http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ has a very nice list of many different wifi adapters (PCI PCMCIA & USB) and their driver support status on Linux.

Running a physical Windows (XP) partition in VMware from Linux

For the last month I have been able to boot and run my laptop's Windows partition from inside a vmware server that runs under my (dual boot) Mandriva Linux partition. This is very useful when I need to run something in windows but don't want to shut down Linux and reboot.
I found the instructions on [...]

Review: PaperbackSwap.com

PaperBackSwap.com is a website for people who want to trade paperback (and other) books. It allows you to post the list of books you have available to send. When somebody sees a book they want, they send you a "credit" to mail it to them. You can then use the credit to order a different [...]