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Marc ‘Zugschlus’ Haber: From the personal Inbox of the exim4 maintainer

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The DDs reading this might know the situation: You are subscribed to a gazillion of mailing lists, and spend quite some
time answering questions of people using your packages. That’s fine, service to your users.…

Marc ‘Zugschlus’ Haber: Automatic initialization of a Option 3G Datacard

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For mobile UMTS/GSM, I have been using an Option 3G Data Card for two and a half years now. I blogged about getting the
card to work (in German, sorry) on Linux in July 2005. I never found the time - until now - to…

Marc ‘Zugschlus’ Haber: kbd seems to be the way to go

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This is just a small reminder (for me and others) that Debian is currently migrating from console-tools to kbd (back
again, yes, those who have been around for a few years remember).

This information is obviously a…

Marc ‘Zugschlus’ Haber: Serial Console Server for the Poor I

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The serial port is still the way to access network components out of band. It is slow, but reliable, and
remarkably well standardized. It does not have technical whiz-bangs that can fail when one needs things to just…

Marc ‘Zugschlus’ Haber: Serial Console Server for the Poor III

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This is the third installment of my article about the Serial Console Server for the Poor. First installment here, Second installment here.

The first part of the article having covered the hardware and the udev part…