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Disclaimer: This procedure can render your computer unbootable and corrupt your data if you do it wrong. Perform a backup prior to doing it and verify you can read the backup. Don't attempt it on a critical laptop. I am in no way responsible if you attempt this and...
When looking at traffic flowing in and out of your gateway Linux boxes you can use a variety of tools. tcpdump is handy For example if I wanted to know what traffic is flowing from my ppp0 interface to a remote host without resolving the names I would say. tcpdump -i...
The Problem: So you have a firewall / server box that you don't want to run X on but you would rather forgo the pleasure of editing all the config files by hand. What to do? A resolution: Use ssh X forwarding to bring those remote GUI programs to your local...
If you use fwbuilder to compile and install your firewall rules you may have come accross "sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo" This is caused by a setting in the /etc/sudoers file "Defaults requiretty" As root run visudo and comment out that line with a hash...
Those of us Windows admins that like the mstsc /v:hostname option of connecting to our Windows Boxes may also want a "feel at home" approach for Linux. I personally like to be able to use vncviewer ip_address:port to connect and get a complete Linux Desktop. The...
When you perform a module update with Gallery 2 it recommends changing the permissions of the modules and themes directories to rwxrwxrwx or 777: cd $gallery_web_root # on Fedora this is probably /usr/share/gallery2 chmod -R 777 modules/ themes/ To get back to a...
I wanted to try and install the latest version of the GIMP So I googled and found this blog with a nice gimp svn download and installation script named gimpsvn.sh cd ~/gimp-build My notes: Do make a directory such as gimp-build and cd into it mkdir ~/gimp-build cd...
Microsoft Works (wps) Documents aren't recognized by the native OpenOffice.org version of OpenOffice. Update: Ubuntu has a libwps package that provides the functions to convert wps files and the Ubuntu version of OpenOffice will open a WPS natively (thanks to Andrew...
When it comes to getting user input and performing an action in a Windows environment there are several convenient options: You can purchase a Microsoft development environment for several thousand dollars such as Visual Studio (or whatever is the latest name for it)....