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August 1st, 2011 by Niels Horn in , , ,

Another simple update… Or not?
This weekend I finally updated my LG X130 netbook to Slackware 13.37. This is one of my "stable" machines that I use all the time for day-to-day tasks, so I do not run -current on it, as I depend on it too much. Slackware-current is very interesting for research and testing [...]

November 20th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

Windows XP and newer versions have the standard feature of "sharing" access to the desktop from remote computers. This is very easy to set up and no extra software is required on the computer that is sharing or the one that is accessing the desktop - as long as they are both running Windows…
I needed [...]

February 6th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

Wireshark is a very nice network protocol analyzer / sniffer, that is very complete and totally free and open source. It is the standard for examining network packets, used by many professionals and home users. I've been using wireshark since the days when it was still called Ethereal, some years ago.
The last few days I [...]

September 27th, 2008 by Niels Horn in ,

Since I am on the subject of networking in Linux, here is another post about some nice things we can do: shaping our traffic so that we can limit how much of our bandwidth we use for each type of traffic.
Just as a small reminder: I am a long-time Slackware user (since 1996) and I [...]

September 26th, 2008 by Niels Horn in ,

Today I finally managed to use my two ISPs together on my desktop, combining both bandwidths into one big (almost 3Mbit!) pipe.
My setup:

ADSL modem 1Mb down, 320Kb up
GSM modem 2Mb down, 512Kb up

Configuring both at the same time is simple, but then we have two default gateways and our packets always go out through the [...]