In my systems (mostly RHEL5) I am using vanilla kernels on some "fresh" hardware. This morning I wrote "on the knee" plugin to check once a day availability of kernel updates from kernel.org.

Well, playing with developing of device driver, reverse engineering/disassembling of Windows driver TD3101_3104AV.sys, sniffing of usb protocol and extracting firmware got first result under 2.6.37.6

Looks more friendly, isn't it? All other stuff is the same, but smiling face looking very attractive. Original Android logo looks angry and aggressive, imho.

This is a practical advice based on my own experience of building HA storage cluster.

The main goal of this tool is to get information of the active nodes in network within shortest quantum of time, it may be thousands of nodes in networks - you may be sure, not less than in 5 secon

Administering of jabber server, I encountered one problem: upon registration of account, some users may enter password with Cyrillic letters which have different values in different encoding.

For a last ~10 years I own Microtek MRS600V3 parallel port scanner, it still works fine.

This script was very helpful for me, when I didn't have access to cable networks. Last update let you stay online using Iranian mobile operator IranCell (MTN).

Using slow lines with SSL encryption may cause this error. I encountered this error using thunderbird mail client with SSL/TLS and GPRS modem.

Using of a known search engine did not bring of positive result. Solution has been tested with Slackware 12.1 distribution and 2.6.25.7 kernel.