Set or synchronize date and time on your Linux/Unix installation.
Having a dual boot system, I find that when setting one OS time correctly will corrupt the other OS's time. This has been going on for a while on my system despite numerous attempts to set the time...
View ArticleLinux Pixma Printer Configuration: Canon Pixma iP4000 / iP4100
INTRO Printing, can become one of those nagging things if you don't have it going yet. This is especially true on Linux. Though it's 2009 at this time, Linux is still lagging in printer support...
View ArticleRedHat Fedora: Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 upgrade.
The Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 upgrade follows the general procedure outlined on the very first Fedora Core upgrade page: RedHat Fedora: Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade . If you have not already...
View ArticleF9, KDE 4.X and Konsole: Extra spaces on console command line between cursor...
PROBLEM Following some recent upgrades to my distro the Konsole window cursor was always ahead of the text that was typed. The problem was compounded when lines of text were longer though this problem...
View ArticleTerminal Emulators: Dynamically changing the tab title text in Konsole and...
Some time back I was introduced to konsole and never went back to terminal emulators like xterm, however a list of good tabbed linux terminal emulator alternatives is provided below in case konsole...
View ArticleFedora & KDE: ERROR: Couldn’t attach to DCOP server!
DCOP server is essentially communication software used by various Linux systems to allow applications to talk to each other. For example, copying and pasting from kword to say firefox would occur...
View ArticleRedHat Linux Fedora: Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 upgrade.
Well folks, it's upgrade time again. It's been raining releases from Fedora lately, each one coming out almost every 6 months so here we are. My own installation is over 4 years old and I took it...
View ArticleFedora 10: unable to authenticate user and reenabling the root login access.
PROBLEM In Fedora 10, the root login was disabled into the GUI, giving you a unable to authenticate user message. You may have noticed that you got a warning about this in Fedora 9 but it wasn't yet...
View ArticleFedora 10+: UI video / graphics problems upon reboot to Fedora 10+. Graphics...
PROBLEM One of the first things that went wrong after upgrading to Fedora 10 was the UI screen was unreadable / undescernable. The screen was entirely messed up and though the keyboard worked fine, it...
View ArticleApache: Configuring mod_security (modsecurity) for Apache on Fedora.
INTRODUCTION Most people today know or have some idea what a firewall is. For those not too familiar with it, it's essentially a piece of software or hardware that sits between your computer and the...
View ArticleRed Hat Linux Fedora: Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 upgrade.
Fedora 12 has been out of the oven since about Nov 17 so it's high time I upgrade before it spoils. As with the previous release, I look forward to any new features in KDE 4.3. (As you recall from...
View ArticleSkype configuration problems and resolutions.
Skype is a popular text, video and voice (VoIP) chat client. A more detailed article can be found on the Wikipedia Skype page. Here is a list of some of the hurdles I've ran into getting the client...
View ArticleUpgrading to Fedora 19
Turns out that my attempt to upgrade my coreutils packages to allow me to use Wake On LAN, required me to upgrade my Fedora 13 to the latest Fedora distribution. So I'm going to try and jump to Fedora...
View ArticleUpgrading to Fedora 19 (continued)
(continued from here) [root@moto F13toF18]# rpm -aq|head liboil-0.3.16-5.fc15.i686 arj-3.10.22-13.fc15.i686 perl-POE-1.289-6.fc16.noarch autocorr-sv-3.4.6.2-1.fc16.noarch...
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