Monthly Archives: February 2010

Rescuing a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 machine to run in a VM on RHEL5.4

Posted on February 16, 2010 by harishpillay

I received a frantic SMS from an old classmate running a travel agency business saying that his SCO machine cannot now boot. He is running an application written to a 3-GL/4-GL product called Thoroughbred. He has had the system running … Continue reading →

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Minor issue with NetworkManager and Fedora 12

Posted on February 13, 2010 by harishpillay

Just solved a problem on my Fedora 12 32-bit machine (Acer Aspire One D250). For some reason, the nm-applet is not starting when I log into the desktop. When I start a terminal and fire up nm-applet as a normal … Continue reading →

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Automatically connecting to the Wireless@SG hotspots

Posted on February 13, 2010 by harishpillay

Thanks to a caustic comment some years ago to Lee Kuan Yew by some visitors to Singapore, we have a nation-wide free wifi network called “Wireless@SG”. It has been a constant pain to use and after much ridicule, someone, somewhere … Continue reading →

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