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[ubuntu] Network wireless setting reports "wirless firmware missing"view story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Did a windows (XP SP3) install of Ubuntu 12.04 which, as far as I can tell, went ok except for when I set up the wireless network. After entering all the necessary info to setup the wireless connection not only did it not connect but there did not appear to be any attempt to connect. (Hardware)

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The openSUSE Conference – a Few Months Laterview story

http://news.opensuse.org – This article attempts to give a bit of an overview of what happened at oSC 12. And that is lots and lots, as you can see in the Google Plus event page for oSC12 and LinuxDays. You can find a lot of CC licensed pictures here and of course in this article. (Distributions)

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12.10 Bluetooth not detecting Wii remoteview story

http://askubuntu.com – My bluetooth is set to "on" and hcitool dev returns hci0's MAC address. When I use wmgui and tell it to connect and press 1+2 (or the red Sync button), it just returns "Unable to connect". When I run hcitool scan it says "Scanning..." and after a few seconds closes. Is there any chance my bluetooth is detected as on and working but is not actually functioning? (HowTos)

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Axcient Double Dips: Wants MSPs… And VARsview story

http://www.thevarguy.com – Axcient, which just raised $20 million in Series D funding, continues to engage managed services providers (MSPs) but is also expanding its partner program to better serve VARs. (IT news)

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Carbon Beta 2 released with support for Dropbox, other featuresview story

http://www.talkandroid.com – Users looking for a backup solution for their Android devices should probably be keeping an eye on Carbon. The app comes to us courtesy Koushik Dutta, creator of Clockwork Mod Recovery and a CyanogenMod ROM maintainer. (IT news)

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Python - subprocess.Popen - ssh -t user@host 'service --status-all'view story

http://stackoverflow.com – I've read a bunch of examples but none of them work for this specific task. Python code: x = Popen(commands, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE, shell=True) print commands stdout = x.stdout.read() stderr = x.stderr.read() print stdout, stderr return stdout Output: [user@host]$ python helpers.py ['ssh', '-t', 'user@host', ' ', "'service --status-all'"] usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_ad (HowTos)

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Use /etc/aliases for outgoing mail relayed by postfix with local domainview story

http://unix.stackexchange.com – I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with postfix configured as satellite system that relays outgoing mail to Gmail. For sake of example, my registered domain is example.com I want root cronjobs' error output to be mailed to my real david@example.com inbox. I have this relay working correctly. But these root cronjobs are set by default to email to root@example.com which isn't a real email address. (HowTos)

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Linux router: bandwidth of clientview story

http://serverfault.com – I am trying to build a linux router (captive portal) with a local RADIUS server for authentication. I want to log the bandwidth being used by each client on my network. I want to associate bandwidth at a given point in time with MAC address. My question is, how can I get the bandwidth of a current client on my network? (HowTos)

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SMTP relay entriesview story

http://serverfault.com – By default, my mail server (Snow Leopard) contains an entry to only accept SMTP relays from 127.0.0.0/8. However, when I attempt to check the option and save, the computer unchecks it. When I change the IP address to just 127.0.0.0, I don't experience the unchecking problem. (HowTos)

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Pointing a domain name to a VPSview story

http://serverfault.com – I just got a VPS. All the host gave me was an IP address to have the domain point to. Lets say my domain is mydomain.com So what I did was I removed the nameserver (not the NS records, but the actual nameserver) values. (HowTos)