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APT RepositoryI maintain an APT repository for the most recent Ubuntu standard and LTS releases. Sources are provided for packages I have backported or modified myself, but not for binary packages I have imported. To use this repository, either edit /etc/apt/sources.list or create the new file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tolaris.list, and add to it the appropriate lines for your distribution. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS “Hardy Heron” deb http://www.tolaris.com/apt/ hardy main deb-src http://www.tolaris.com/apt/ hardy main Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” deb http://www.tolaris.com/apt/ lucid main deb-src http://www.tolaris.com/apt/ lucid main Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meercat” deb http://www.tolaris.com/apt/ maverick main deb-src http://www.tolaris.com/apt/ maverick main Supported Architectures: i386 amd64 GPG Signature: 455A524E Browse directly: http://www.tolaris.com/apt/ Import GPG signing key: wget -q http://www.tolaris.com/apt/packages-tolaris.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add – Currently in the hardy repo: backuppc 3.2.0, backported from Debian sid comix, from getdeb.net kgtk, allow some GTK apps to use KDE file dialogs ksshaskpass, a replacement for ssh-add that can retrieve an SSH passphrase from kwallet, backported from jaunty linux-igd, a UPNP daemon, backported from jaunty mtr, version 0.75 backported from jaunty nmap and zenmap, 5.00 backported from lucid puppet 0.25.4 and facter 1.5.6, backported from lucid webmin and webmin-virtual-server-mobile, from webmin.com wine, patched to resolve bug 205895 so ies4linux / Internet…
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AboutI am Tyler J. Wagner, and I’m a sysadmin and network/satellite engineer. I live in London and frequently travel to Europe and the Middle East on business. I have lived in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Baghdad, and Arbil (Iraqi Kurdistan). I hold a B.S. Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. I can be found on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. I am the Chief Technical Officer of Talia Ltd, a satellite Internet services provider and Linux consulting and network engineering company. Talia operates its own teleport and maintains a VSAT network spanning 7 satellites and 1300 modems across the Middle East and Africa. Every day, we are responsible for keeping 140 mbit of traffic moving along 200 MHz of committed satellite spectrum. I manage a team of engineers responsible for that VSAT network and the rest of our company infrastructure, which includes 50 Linux servers and 25 Linux workstations. Our servers run a mix of Ubuntu, CentOS and RHEL, and our workstations run Ubuntu and Linux Mint. I have managed some form of Unix since I was introduced to HP-UX 9 in 1996, and have run Linux on the desktop full time since 2005. My wife and I…
- ContactIf you would like to contact me privately, please encrypt it with GPG/PGP. My 2048-bit public key is available here. Once you import my key, you’ll have my email address. Or you can send me a totally low-tech, insecure email via the contact form below.
- Bit BucketMy web root has collected all manner of stuff over the years. Perhaps it interests you? I once wrote a nifty plugin for Firefox 1.5, for the few of you that run a local Apache server and want to search your man pages in Firefox. It probably doesn’t work in Firefox 2, and definitely doesn’t work in Firefox 3. There are better ways to do it. I made a SNES-to-Parallel Adaptor to play emulated games with real controls on my PC. I haven’t had a PC with a parallel port in several years now, but I still have the adaptor. I recommend RetroUSB now. Travelling to Dubai, I frequently run afoul of the morality proxy. You can even view the old website, if you wish.

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Science project: measuring USB current

My friend Soren recently gave me a Super Power Bank, a nifty portable Lithium battery pack with two USB ports for charging devices on the go. The Super Power Bank has a 6600 mAh battery with two USB ports for charging devices; one providing 1.0 A, the other 2.1 A. He asked me a question: do my devices charge faster on the 2.1 A port? Down the rabbit hole I flew.

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2013-02-08
On Troubleshooting

My colleague TT Mooney has some very important words about troubleshooting. Please take the time to read them. Especially if you work with us.

2012-01-19

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When the going gets tough, the tough sniff packets.

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Science project: measuring USB current

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