Setting up MySQL on Sabayon Linux
For quite a while now, I have offline web servers for doing a spot of tweaking and tinkering away from the gaze of web users that visit what I have on there. Therefore, one of the tests that I apply […]
View ArticleInstalling the Cinnamon Desktop Environment on Sabayon Linux
During the week, I did an update on my Sabayon system and GNOME 3.6 came on board without to much of a bother. There was no system meltdown or need for an operating system re-installation. However,...
View ArticleGetting an Epson Pefection 4490 Photo scanner going with Ubuntu GNOME Remix...
My Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner has been in my possession for a while now and its impossible to justify any replacement given that it both works well and digital photography has taken over from...
View ArticleInstalling Nightingale music player on Ubuntu 13.04
Ever since the Songbird project concentrated its efforts to support only Windows and OS X, the Firefox-based music player has been absent from a Linux user’s world. However, the project is open source...
View ArticleAdding Microsoft Core Fonts to Fedora 19
While I have a previous posting from 2009 that discusses adding Microsoft’s Core Fonts to the then current version of Fedora, it did strike me that I hadn’t laid out the series of command that were...
View ArticleDealing with the Lack of Categories in the Application Overview Screen for...
One thing that I like to do is peruse the installed applications on any computer system. In most cases, this is simple enough to do but there are some who appear to believe in doing away with that in...
View ArticleRestoring GNU Parallel Functionality in Ubuntu GNOME 13.04
There is a handy comand line utility called GNU Parallel that allows you to run Linux commands on more than one CPU core at a time to perform parallel processing of the task at hand. Here is a form of […]
View ArticleInstalling Citrix Receiver 13.0 in Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 64-bit
Installing the latest version of Citrix Receiver (13.0 at the time of writing) on 64-bit Ubuntu should be as simple as downloading the required DEB package and double-clicking on the file so that...
View ArticleSetting up a WD My Book Live NAS on Ubuntu GNOME 13.10
The official line from Western Digital is that they do not support the use of their My Book Live NAS drives with Linux or UNIX. However, what that means is that they only develop tools for accessing...
View ArticleWiping of hard drives with Linux
More than a decade of computer upgrades and rebuilds can leave obsolete kit in your hands and the arrival of legislation controlling the dumping of electronic goods during this time can leave one...
View ArticleA fallback method of installing Nightingale in Linux
When I upgraded to Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 and went for the 64-bit variant, I tried a previously tried and tested approach for installing Nightingale that used a PPA only for it not to work. At that point,...
View ArticleERROR: Can’t find the archive-keyring
When I recently did my usual system update for the stable version Ubuntu GNOME, there were some updates pertaining to apt and the process failed when I executed the following command: sudo apt-get...
View ArticleAutomatically enabling your network connection at startup on CentOS 7
The release of CentOS 7 stoked my curiosity so I gave it a go in a VirtualBox virtual machine. It uses GNOME Shell in classic mode so the feel is not too far removed from that of GNOME 2. One […]
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