Peter's Blog 23.2.2004

Old laptop was sitting quietly, no fan noise, so I..

Old laptop was sitting quietly, no fan noise, so I ssh'ed into it and checked it was alive. I'm thinking of making it a central ftp server to share stuff between the other pc's. Windows file sharing is a pain, ftp would not be so bad.

I tried the dpkg-reconfigure thing and got network..

I tried the dpkg-reconfigure thing and got network going on old laptop nicely. Putty connects to it nicely, apache running.

Router set up, I'll try it from work tomorow.

Installed BigClock on palm because built-in..

Installed BigClock on palm because built-in World Clock has no second hand and I wanted to do some timing. It's a good little app. Clock with calendar, World Clock, Alarm clock and Timers. Ugly fonts but they may be replacable.

I've put a lot of linux info on the palm in Isilo format. The online docs are very texty and convert well. I find I prefer reading on the palm to pc for some reason.

Must try this to configure network:

Must try this to configure network:

"apt-get install discover apt-get install etherconf

After you've done that, run "dpkg-reconfigure etherconf" and it should find your ethernet card and prompt you for the proper configuration information."