I had a problem with a very old Compaq PC not detecting the keyboard anymore. I used the PC as a local server, not a real problem, except that the BIOS didn’t allow the PC to boot when the keyboard was not plugged in. One solution there might have been to use some USB keyboard […]
This article was first written in January 2004 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/101) There’s about time relatives of mine don’t want to change their operating system to Linux because they fear to be lost, but commonly use a lot of softwares under “test periods” to assist them in Windows because there’s a natural lack […]
This article was first written in May 2005 for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/262). On UNIX, the ports < 1024 are accessible to user root only. That has many implications, as then most standard networked servers have to start as root anyway, because they use well-known ports (like HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, FTP, …). To reduce […]
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