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» [Solved] After dist-upgrade to Debian Jessie, Intel eth0 doesn’t come up on boot
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And Networking and telecommunications. 13 May 2015 at 13:34 by Jean-Marc Liotier. Solved] After dist-upgrade to Debian Jessie, Intel eth0 doesn’t come up on boot. Upon reboot after upgrading yet another Debian host to sweet Jessie. I was dismayed to lose connectivity – a slight annoyance when administering through the Internet. Later, with screen and keyboard attached to the server, I found that the Intel Ethernet interface using the e1000e module. 8230; And I was running Linux 3.16:. Diff - git a/networ...
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» Contorsions toward an IPv6-only vhost on Debian Apache through whacky multiple IPv6 addresses configuration
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And Networking and telecommunications. 17 Oct 2011 at 11:03 by Jean-Marc Liotier. Contorsions toward an IPv6-only vhost on Debian Apache through whacky multiple IPv6 addresses configuration. I just wanted to create an Apache virtual host responding to queries only over IPv6. That should have been most trivial considering that I had already been running a dual-stacked server, with all services accessible over both IPv4 and IPv6. For the name of the virtual host, it works as expected. Remember when you had...
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» “Lost connection to MySQL server during query” error while using SSH tunnel [solved]
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23 Sep 2010 at 11:27 by Jean-Marc Liotier. 8220;Lost connection to MySQL server during query” error while using SSH tunnel [solved]. This just cost me twenty minutes of hair pulling and from the number of unanswered forum and mailing lists mentions of this “Lost connection to MySQL server during query” error in the context of remote access through an SSH tunnel. Posting the solution seems useful. Letting mysqld listen to the outside is a security risk – and an unnecessary one for the common LAMP. Is acti...
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» The Copwatch case – French government incompetence at its best and where to go from there
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15 Oct 2011 at 0:45 by Jean-Marc Liotier. The Copwatch case – French government incompetence at its best and where to go from there. The French interior minister Claude Gueant has decided to launch a viral marketing campaign to spread the notoriety of https:/ copwatchnord-idf.org. Even before the court order has been implemented there are already a wealth of alternative ways to access the site’s content – among others I2P. And a nicely growing list of mirrors including one on this site. There are also cl...
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» Marching in Paris for Freedom of Speech – it was all about satire after all…
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11 Jan 2015 at 12:51 by Jean-Marc Liotier. Marching in Paris for Freedom of Speech – it was all about satire after all…. French Minister’s vibrant speech in favour of free software. 8220;Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety” – Alvin Toffler quote sourced at last. 2 Responses to “Marching in Paris for Freedom of Speech – it was all about satire after all…”. January 11, 2015 at 12:54. January 11, 2015 at 13:09. Can’t be présent this afternoon, wife and eldest daughter will.
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» Sending an audio stream across the network to a remote Raspberry Pi with Pulseaudio, the easy way
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And Networking and telecommunications. 01 Jun 2015 at 15:02 by Jean-Marc Liotier. Sending an audio stream across the network to a remote Raspberry Pi with Pulseaudio, the easy way. So, I grabbed a Raspberry Pi model B (first generation. 8211; get them cheap! A micro-USB power supply from the spares box and a stray SD card (at least 1 GB). First step is to set it up with an operating system. Since I love Debian. A handy way to install Raspbian quick and easy is raspbian-ua-netinst. Let raspbian-ua-netinst...
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» DNS queries with mysterious random mixed case
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28 May 2015 at 14:01 by Jean-Marc Liotier. DNS queries with mysterious random mixed case. 1 15895697 2600:480e:4000:c00: 3 - 2001:470:1f12:425: 2 DNS 94 Standard query 0x896c A wwW.ruWeNZORI.net. 2 15901855 2600:480e:4000:c00: 7 - 2001:470:1f12:425: 2 DNS 94 Standard query 0xe3e6 A Www.RuWEnzoRi.neT. 3 16557423 2600:480e:4000:c00: 7 - 2001:470:1f12:425: 2 DNS 93 Standard query 0x5040 A KiVu.grabEuH.COm. Who let the script kiddies out? 8230; What a surprise! Well… One less mystery. Contorsions toward an I...
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» Mobile telephony prices varying with network load – yield management made transparent
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And Networking and telecommunications. 04 Jun 2009 at 23:44 by Jean-Marc Liotier. Mobile telephony prices varying with network load – yield management made transparent. Accra, 23 February 2009. Mobile telephony prices varying with network load – yield management made transparent. Here is an extract of the press release from MTN Ghana on MTN Zone service launch in June 2008. The coming mobile data price war. November 29, 2010 at 20:14. Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required).
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» How I solved my Baofeng’s “Radio did not Ack Programming Mode” error once and for all
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04 Feb 2015 at 23:24 by Jean-Marc Liotier. How I solved my Baofeng’s “Radio did not Ack Programming Mode” error once and for all. I was so happy with my pair of Baofeng UV-B6. That I decided to buy four more to entirely replace my fleet of even cheaper Lidl Silvercrest TwinTalker PMR transceivers. Whose horrendous attrition hints about excessive cheapness. Alas, as I was using the beloved CHIRP. To load them with the family’s standard configuration, I encountered the dreaded ‘. As suggested by Miklor.
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» Microsoft Windows disgraceful public failure mode
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09 Jun 2008 at 13:35 by Jean-Marc Liotier. Microsoft Windows disgraceful public failure mode. Who these days has not witnessed the embarrassing failure modes of Microsoft Windows. Blue screens of all hues and an assortment of badged dialog boxes. Make each crash into a very public display of incompetence. Even better than a black screen : a low level routine that in case of system failure may display something harmless. Anything but an error message. Of course, users of Free Software. Cannot be ignored&#...
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