If you’re like me, you may need to build your own packages in Debian, or perhaps have downloaded different versions of packages to install on your system. Sometimes you’d like to go the other way, though, and install an older version of a package you found in the repository, or even the same version, [...]
Compiz Fusion on a Radeon Mobility X1400 graphics card? Hell yeah!
Oh, driver hell. Proprietary drivers are the bane of Linux’s existence, as any Linux user with a current ATI graphics card can tell you. I have a Lenovo Z61m on which I’d like to install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, but good luck — [...]
I have a Lenovo X41 Tablet PC that I had installed Ubuntu onto. I recently decided to re-install the original Windows software, so I ordered the CDs from Lenovo and broke out an external CD drive. However, when I put in the Rescue and Recovery CD and booted the machine, I ended up [...]
In the old days, a techie might install Windows on a computer, then install Linux. Later, the techie might decide to trash the Linux partitions for some reason, but on reboot — oops! LILO was still there. These days, GRUB has taken the place of LILO, but the old problem is still [...]
What’s your favorite editor? Oh, I’m sorry, the correct answer should be emacs. Actually, you should use whatever editor you feel most comfortable with; I’ve just found the ability to record keyboard macros in emacs to be indispensable, all the more so since I’ve been using it for almost ten years. Be [...]
Do you have an ssh login to a server? How would you like to access that on your Linux desktop as if it were local? As it turns out, this isn’t hard to do, thanks to the power of FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). Here’s the quick and dirty way to set this [...]
I decided to take the plunge and start playing around with dual core technology, so I went down to the local store and picked up a new CPU, RAM, and motherboard. However, what I discovered was that it can actually be quite difficult actually installing Linux to what I had purchased, due to the [...]
With the recent release of iTunes 7, lots of folks are upgrading and finding that their iPods are no longer recognized. This is actually a common problem, and not isolated to iTunes 7. Sometimes it just happens, even without upgrade. I found my iPod nano was no longer being recognized by iTunes [...]
In the old days (say, around 1990) a must-have application when buying a computer was an encyclopedia on a CD-ROM. Hello, Grolier’s and Encarta! No more would you need a shelf full of books to look up interesting facts! When I bought an iBook, it came with a copy of World Book, [...]
The previously reported serious security flaw has been patched by Microsoft, who, thankfully, decided to release the patch earlier than stated. This patch was released via Windows Update, so if you have automatic updates on, then you may have already installed this patch. Everyone is encouraged to install this update, as not doing [...]