Tag Archives: networking

Making UConnect suck less with urlyconnect

April 22, 2010 – 17:44

The University of Tasmania has student wireless Internet access, a network called UConnect. (Great pun.) This network has sucked by varying amounts over the three and a half years I’ve spent there as a student. It’s some sort of 802.1X beastie. Setting it up on GNU/Linux is mostly a trial-and-error affair. My current settings are [...]

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Units and prefixes

April 19, 2010 – 12:20

Lots of people get units wrong. Please don’t be one of those people. This is a tutorial introduction to getting your computing units right. The history of these issues is covered in extensive detail at Wikipedia. File or Data Size Everyone knows that computers store things as 1s and 0s. These are called bits. (Short [...]

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SLIP and slattach

November 19, 2009 – 15:11

After some experimenting I’ve managed to get a semi-permanent 115kb/s SLIP connection between my main Debian server and a 486 running BSD. By semi-permanent, I mean as soon as there’s a power cycle I’m going to have to run out with a laptop with DHCP server, a crossover cable and some patience to make it [...]

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