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If you have a wireless adapter on Linux like the ath9k (Atheros) or others, and you are on Fedora, here is a solution.

You have probably seen very simple IPTables rules to do this. This is a little bit better.

It is not only superior to the iPhone 3GS in what you can do -- the user interface is really streamlined.

Relax. Your content hasn't disappeared -- is there, hidden by a perhaps overzealous malfunction protection mechanism.

A tip of the trade from a fellow LTSP administrator: how to set up the default language and desktop session on LTSP terminals booting off a Fedora 11 terminal server.

Running PulseAudio as a system-wide service has advantages -- you can play audio without having logged on, multiple users can play audio on the same audio gear, and music daemons like MPD won't fight for the audio device with PulseAudio. Here's how.

Want to experience movies better but don't have the home theater? Now you can.

NEPOMUK and Strigi do not work in the vast majority of Linux distributions. We'll see why, and how we can fix that.

Are you infected with Conficker? My machines can handle the DDoS that Conficker inflicted on the original eye chart's site. See if you're infected here.

Otherwise known as the slash-ended problem.

Plone Documentation Center has been having some issues with Plone 3.1 and above. Here is the fix.

I have the fix.

The latest release of Plone just hit the shelves, and we're right on track delivering the RPM releases for your CentOS and Fedora.

Those two Plone products seem to never get along. Here's a hot fix for Plone 3.0.x users that will make the excellent qSEOptimizer by QuintaGroup work just fine along with Plone Documentation Center (PHC) and Plone Software Center (PSC).

Plone is pretty secure by default. Unfortunately, as an administrator, having to log in each time you restart your browser is extremely annoying. Here's how to bypass that.

A small trick that will help you when you need a file that is multi-gigabytes in size, but you don't have hours to wait for it to be written to disk.

ZFS is the best filesystem ever invented. And FUSE brings it to Linux. There are, however, some caveats you need to keep in mind if you want to start it properly.

Now you can convert your videos in Linux, in the easiest and most straightforward way.

I've written a small application to create bootable, multi-purpose USB drives out of Ubuntu images.

Got a thumb USB drive or an SD card, and you'd like to put Linux on it? Did the other HOWTOs fail you? This is the real deal, through and through. This trick also works out-of-the-box with Kubuntu and other Ubuntu variants as well. Moreover, you can adapt it with very few changes to any other live CD Linux distributions out there.

Do you have a Realtek card driven by the r8169 driver, and you're experiencing SSH, SSL or rsync errors associated to the error message "Disconnected: Corrupted MAC on input"? Do you download large files only to find them corrupted? Here's the solution.

After fixing your video card issues, you can enjoy the full range of desktop effects available with Compiz and KWin in KDE 4.1 and above.

The latest iterations of popular Linux distros Fedora and Ubuntu include PulseAudio. Make sure you learn about it!

Earlier on, we discussed how to enable full-text RSS feeds. Now we'll discuss how to improve on that by preventing your full-text feeds from being harvested and posted on blogspammers' sites. The nice thing about this trick is that you can use it to include any sort of text on your RSS feeds, while leaving your site content completely unaffected.

You can let people syndicate your Plone site, searches or collections in full. Here's how.

Web servers (especially Plone, by default) work wonders in combination with an HTTP accelerator such as Varnish or Squid. But your iPhone readers are out of luck because of a grave bug on MobileSafari -- Plone sites are especially slow like molasses on the iPhone. Don't worry, here's a trick that will solve it.

Hotlinkers suck your bandwidth dry, but referrals are valuable to you. Learn how to use Varnish to stop image hotlinkers while at the same time welcoming referred visitors and gaining a big performance edge.

ZFS-FUSE can deliver enough performance to be usable on Linux, with a new patch.