I just had an issue where I couldn't use the winecfg app to change my default audio driver. It seemed to be locked onto OSS and my system is ALSA. My setup is wine-0.9.41 and Wine Doors version 0.1 on Fedora 7. I tried using vi to change ~/.wine/user.reg...
Update: On Ubuntu 7.04 simply plug the card in and it is automatically detected. Use the normal network manager application to create a 'dialup' connection using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the device. The only weird thing is that you don't need a username and password for the...
I have been a member of the Linux Step by Step Users mailing list since if memory serves me correctly 2000. The list contains a mix of Grey Beards, Security and Programming Specialists, Enthusiasts and people who 'remember when'. The parent website has seen a drop in...
This appears elsewhere on the web but I like to keep my own info just incase I need to refer to it. CTRL+ALT+ENTER
I use XFCE4 and one annoying thing was firefox was opening Nautilus when clicking the Open Containing Folder option in the Firefox Download dialog box The fix: Using a Terminal open nautilus In Nautilus right click on a "folder" object in the window of Nautilus....
Yum has a few things needing fixing. For example: I have smolt-0.9.8.3-1.fc7 installed but if I do yum install smolt it replies Nothing to do Logically you would assume that this "Nothing to do" message means "I already have that package installed" but NO. If I do a...
I have embedded my Squirrelmail login into the front of my wordpress blog by putting into the header.php the following function The default squirrelmail code uses the format document.forms[0]. this causes the code to see the first form on the page which may not be...
I found the default Notepad++ behaviour of opening the files that were open last time annoying (if I was programmer the default would be fine). To turn it off: Open Notepad++ Click Settings ==> Preferences ==> MISC Tab Uncheck the "Remember the current session for...
While installing cups-pdf using yum install cups-pdf I got this error: cut: write error: Broken pipe Installed: cups-pdf.i386 0:2.4.6-1.fc7 But it didn't seem to effect the install. However the default directory cups-pdf for F7 outputs to is $HOME/Desktop... I hate...
This appeared in my Apache logs this morning: //wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions ... rm%20-rf%20kk*?: 1 Time(s) Looking back through the logs the full request was: //wp-content/plugins/mygallery/myfunctions/mygallerybrowser.php?myPath=...