This issue looks very much like a bug to me: You start a brand new Linux installation You select wired Internet connection during install Your brand new Linux has no wireless connectivity (not even the drivers!) upon first boot. This is what I did to fix it (on my Toshiba satellite with Fedora 24 and […]
networking
Using curl and POST requests to automate data retrieval from a website
Problem: A site contains data which is of interest to us. The data is uniformly structured and available for examination by the general public (i.e. no login required) but is not automatically accessible, i.e. viewing it requires repetitive user interaction (such as setting a date range, clicking a ‘submit’ button, etc). In addition, usually the […]
How to setup Samba
Best Samba how-to I’ve ever seen: http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:samba It is somewhat slackware-centric but could easily use it on Fedora and was able to setup a shared folder and access it from Windows in no-time. NOTE: If after doing everything your windows machine STILL can not see/access/login-into your samba server do a “service smb restart”.