http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress Microcomputers - Development - Systems Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:23:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PROBLEM You get this when trying to SSH to a host from some IP (Let's assume it's 111.22.33.44 for the scope of this problem): ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host What to do? SOLUTION It had to do with security and /etc/hosts.allow in my case.  The steps are: vi /etc/hosts.allow (Or if you ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2010/02/12/linux-the-source-of-ssh_exchange_identification-connection-closed-by-remote-host/ PROBLEM A little tidbit of Windows knowledge.  When highlighting a section of a Microsoft Word document and pressing the delete key, nothing happens.  No errors or messages at all.  Try this to fix it... SOLUTION ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2010/01/12/microsoft-word-a-delete-key-that-doesnt-delete/ Skype is a popular text, video and voice (VoIP) chat client.  A more detailed article can be found on the Wikipedia Skype page.  Here is a list of some of the hurdles I've ran into getting the client to work on my own distribution. PROBLEM Skype for Linux had poor video in ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2010/01/08/skype-configuration-problems-and-resolutions/ Fedora 12 has been out of the oven since about Nov 17 so it's high time I upgrade before it spoils.  As with the previous release, I look forward to any new features in KDE 4.3.  (As you recall from the previous upgrades, KDE was introduced rewritten almost entirely in Qt4).  Also ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2009/12/31/red-hat-linux-fedora-fedora-11-to-fedora-12-upgrade/ Following a recent upgrade, Xorg was apparently also updated to version xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.1.901-1.fc11.i586 which unfortunately didn't play nicely with version xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.12.2-14.fc11.i586 .  After a brief investigation, the combination resulted in this error:  /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so: undefined symbol: DRIOpenDRMMaster Ultimately, this had the following effect: No GUI (System never got as far as showing ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2009/08/16/fedora-update-undefined-symbol-driopendrmmaster/ Here we'll go over how to connect, configure and format a SATA I / II hard drive on Linux.  The intent for this drive ultimately was to share the drive through SAMBA between our home PC's and to hold home movies from the Sony HDR-SR7 camcorder I have.  Ultimately, I will ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2009/07/28/linux-unix-adding-a-new-sata-harddrive-using-parted-instead-of-fdisk/ There are plenty of ways to share resources and files between two or more computers.  You could do things like: Email yourself an attachment. Use FTP between the two PC's. Use SSH between the two computers. Use sneaker-net: ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2009/07/27/networking-sharing-folders-between-windows-and-linux-using-samba/ Well, Fedora 11 has been out for some time now.  And though I've been coping with the new KDE 4.0 deployment, my general experience has left me somewhat unsatisfied, though sure enough, there are good points about it.  Somehow I don't feel alone but can't help stick with it.  After all, KDE 4.0 ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2009/07/11/red-hat-linux-fedora-fedora-10-to-fedora-11-upgrade/ This is a fine one.  Anyone who uses WordPress may need to deal with this.  Unfortunately, despite using reCAPTCHA, Akismet still picks up tons of span on my blog.  So why am I getting spam comments when I have reCAPTCHA? The answer could surprise you. I really had no idea, but it turned ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2009/07/01/wordpress-dealing-with-comment-and-user-registration-spam/ PROBLEM Another day brings another bug. This time it's with the Akonadi server failing or unable to start.  This error followed a recent update I've done on my Fedora box.  This is what greeted me each time I started up KDE: The QtSQL driver 'QMYSQL' is required by your current Akonadi server configuration. The ... http://www.microdevsys.com/WordPress/2009/03/29/linux-akonadi-the-qtsql-driver-qmysql-is-required-by-your-current-akonadi-server-configuration/