From the Synergy website: “Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).” I use my laptop as the “server” and then…
Dell is recalling a large number of laptop batteries (primarily for the D-series laptops), but to the potential for overheating and fire. Article at CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/14/technology/dell.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes Website at Dell for getting checking/ordering replacement batteries: http://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/
I had another friend get bitten by this *feature*, and felt it was worthy of a note on this site. : “Note for Perl 5.8 Users (incl Red Hat 8) Redhat 8 and 9 changed the default LANG to something with utf8 and this causes all kinds of problems with installing various modules and software.…
I have used this a number of times, but since I needed to look up all the flags again, I thought I would post this for those interest. I occasionally use this to allow a script to push a file from one machine thru the firewall to an external machine (via SSH). Here is how…