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What channel should I choose for my wireless network? Wireless Networking Forum FAQ A. For best performance, you should choose a channel at least 5 channels from y our neighbors' networks. Although 802.11b and 802.11g devices are designed to share the airwaves with neighboring networks, it is best to find a clear channel for several rea sons, chief among these: Mozilla Mozilla is a free software community best known for producing the Firefox web browser. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions.[1] The community is supported institutionally by the Mozilla Foundation and its tax-paying subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.[2] In addition to the Firefox browser, Mozilla also produces Thunderbird, Firefox Mobile, the Firefox OS mobile operating system, the bug tracking system Bugzilla and a number of other projects.

8 Linux Commands: To Find Out Wireless Network Speed, Signal Strength And Other Information Linux operating systems comes with various set of tools allowing you to manipulate the Wireless Extensions and monitor wireless networks. This is a list of tools used for wireless network monitoring tools that can be used from your laptop or desktop system to find out network speed, bit rate, signal quality/strength, and much more. #1: Find out your wireless card chipset information

News openSUSE 12.1 has been released a few weeks ago. A major new technology we introduce in this release is ownCloud, which we ship in a separate repository. ownCloud is a web application which lets you set up your own cloud – a place for you data where you can share it with others or use it over multiple devices. As YOU will own the data, it’s great from a privacy and security point of view. However, setting up ownCloud, while not particularly complicated, is still vastly more difficult than navigating to a website which offers you convenient ways of giving them your personal data. If the convenience offered by companies like Dropbox, Canonical or Facebook is so much greater than what is offered by technologies which protect your freedom, you don’t really have a choice as common user.

How do I setup an ad-hoc (peer to peer) wireless network? Wireless Networking Forum FAQ Follow these simple steps:•1. Get one wireless network card for each computer•2. Go into the network card properties and set the SSID to something unique. SDB:OwnCloud This article describes how to use ownCloud with openSUSE: Setup and configuration. Situation ownCloud calendar integrates in your desktop! Today computer work is not limited to a single machine any more. People have the urgent need to share their data over various computers, ie. desktop computers, laptops and such. For that a so called cloud-solution is very helpful.

Tuning the Macbook touchpad in Linux The default synaptics driver settings in Linux are a little wonky, and are far from the feel of using the touchpad in OSX. I have spent some (read: too much) time tweaking these settings to a much more usable config. Getting under the hood Configuring Synaptics Touchpad on a Macbook Under Linux « /pseudomorph It has been a while since I’ve posted anything up but today I’ve got a couple of little touchpad tips. My current everyday machine is an old Macbook 2,1 that I’ve had for quite a long time, just over 4 years if memory serves me correctly. Now most of the time I really enjoy the Apple hardware in this machine, if not the software. There is, however, the more than occasional time that I need to make the hardware play nice with the software I choose to use. Most of the time it’s not a case of a piece of hardware not working at all but – because it is Apple after all – it working in a way I don’t want, or mostly working but not just not perfectly.

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