samba passwordless login

smbpasswd -a ali

/etc/samba/smb.conf
security=share
[public]
path = /home/ali
read only = no
guest ok = yes
public = yes
browsable = yes
force user = ali

ubuntu howto stop X from auto start

sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove

VOIP FXO FXS

REMEMBER

FXO = Foreign Exchange Office is connected to PSTN.
FXS = Foreign Exchange Subscriber is connected to a normal phone.

http://www.patton.com/technotes/fxs_fxo.pdf

DISPLAY to connect to X from SSH

export DISPLAY=`who -um | awk '{print $8}' | tr -d '()'`:0.0

microsoft fonts for linux i386

taken and rpm-built from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

for rpm based Linuces
msttcorefonts-2.0-1.noarch.rpm

Wive 0.61 on DWL-G700AP

When installing Wive on DWL-G700AP remember that after putting the access point in TFTP mode you have to use the EXACT ip address "192.168.1.6" for tftp regardless of whatever the actual LAN interface IP is.