Posts tagged 'linux'

Flashing BIOS with FreeDos Live USB

The bios flasher utility for my Acer Aspire laptop requires a windows or dos installation to run.

Having just recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 I wasn't keen to go back so I did some searching and found that the FreeDos USB disk can be used to run the flash ...

Internet breaks shortly after startup

Soon after turning on my desktop the internet stops working and I need to reset the modem. The suspected culprit is the modem not supporting IPv6 properly.

Current fix is to set the IPv6 settings to ignore in the connections settings.

Using scp through a DMZ gateway to a machine behind a firewall using a tunnel

How to set up port forwarding from your local machine to a remote machine behind a firewall through a gateway machine.

Commands are run on your local machine.

IP addresses obviously need to be replaced with the actual addresses or host names of the target pc.

First you setup port ...