Guru Labs: June 2005 Archives

Treo650+BluetoothDUN+Linux

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I wrote and posted a new Guru Labs guide on using Linux (Fedora Core v4, though the directions are mostly agnostic to distro) with a Treo 650 upgraded with the newly released firmware that legally and offically enables Bluetooth Dialup Networking.

Credits must go to Stuart for getting this working first on his 64bit Ubuntu running laptop.

Easy Come, Easy Go

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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is in charge of doling out IP address blocks. Last Friday, June 17th 2005, five previously unused /8 netblocks (same size as a class A network, aka 16 million addresses) were allocated.

Three netblocks went to North America via the American Registry for Internet Numbers.
74/8
75/8
76/8

Two netblocks went to Latin America and the Caribbean via the Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry.
189/8
190/8

If you filter bogons on your firewall, update your filters accordingly.

Fedora Core v4 Released Today

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Fedora Core v4 was released today. The announcment describes some of the changes and the Release Notes have even more details.

I used my rsync trick I mentioned earlier to snag a copy much quicker. The four ISO files total 2,663,610,368 bytes. By using rsync to covert my test3 ISOs into the final ISOs, I only had to download 1,155,789,380 bytes. That is basically 1.5GB of savings. Pretty substantial.

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