Restreaming ASF to MP3 Via Icecast and VLC

Say you have an internet radio stream that you like to listen to. You like to actually get up from your computer once in a while and go outside, so you want to play it on your iPhone/Blackberry/G1/Treo/Centro/Pre/Whatever as you’re out and about. But wait! Due to poor decision making by your beloved stream provider, [...]

Recovering a PPPoE password from an Actiontec M1000

If you ever get into a situation where you can’t find the password used on your Qwest DSL account, and you have an Actiontec M1000 router (or similar), give this procedure a shot:
- You can find your account username on the Quick Setup page, listed as "PPP Username"- Set your router admin password if you [...]

HOWTO: Forwarding a USB device to a Guest VM in Xen on Fedora

This procedure works with fully virtualized VMs. I would assume it works with paravirtualized VMs as well…
Shut down and power off your VM
Unplug and re-plug your USB device to see what it appears as in dmesg, then run    dmesg | grep ^usb
See these lines?:    usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 7    usb 3-2: new low speed [...]

Extending (Resizing) LVM/XFS Xen images

Documentation on this procedure out on the interwebs seems rather sparse, so I thought I’d post the procedure I use to expand Xen images that use LVM and XFS. The same procedure should work fine if you use EXT3, you probably will just have to substitute the proper e2/3fs command for xfs_growfs.
## FROM THE VM [...]

Enabling Input Audio Monitoring on Dell Latitude D820

I recently re-installed XP on my Dell Latitude
D820 for the third time in 2 years and ran into a familiar problem: My
line-in audio was not being played through the speakers. By default,
the Dell driver, R171789 (SIGMATEL STAC 92XX C-Major HD Audio) does not
come with the input monitor enabled. You can modify the driver INI
file(s) manually [...]

Postfix/Exchange Unknown User Filtering HOWTO

Annoyed by Exchange’s lack of SMTP features? Tired of thousands of NDR messages to invalid email addresses for unknown users plugging up your mailserver? Try my new HOWTO on setting up an Exchange/Postfix mail filtering server on Ubuntu.

Integrated Windows Authentication in Firefox

I’ve been trying to get Firefox reeady for deployment everywhere in our organization. Here’s one less thing to workaround: Integrated Windows Authentication in Firefox. Basically I just needed to add/modify the following values:
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris = intranet
network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris = intranet
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris = intranet
This allowed my to browse straight to http://intranet/ without logging in.
You can add more domains to each [...]