Lesson's
"If it ain't broke don't fix it- If you can't fix it don't break it-- You reap what you tweak":- This was one of my first lessons as a linux user. Original poetry was written by a member @ Ubuntu-
View ArticleInstalling Simon Voice Recognition Software
Installing the dependencies wasn't what I'd call fun. It took about 10 hours to do so. After running the build script for Simon several times and it continued to complain that opecv wasn't installed...
View ArticleHow to fix the Clock in Slackware
Many times I have tried fixing the clock in Slackware and for some reason timeconfig didn't work for me at all. I found a way to fix the clock and it works everytime the clock is wrong.-:) Open the...
View ArticleHow To Make A Menu Entry
If you have ever manually installed an Application but grew tired of using the terminal to launch it this blog is for you. I'll use BibleDesktop-1.6 as the Application/example. I recently installed it...
View ArticleHow To Remove Files When the rm -rf fails
Not being able to remove files with the rm -rf command is pretty annoying. When make uninstall or make clean fails as well try this: Open the Natailus file manager as 'root': Code: sudo gksu natailus...
View ArticleHow To Get Sony Vaio Backlight Working Under Linux
Got a Sony Vaio with backlight capabilities? If you answered yes to that question and it's not working I found a workaround. Open the terminal as root and create this file in Nano or any other text...
View ArticleHow To Recover A Lost Root Password
This works for Red Hat so I'm not sure if it works for other distributions. In order to recover the lost root password hit the 'e' key as Grub is booting up. Look for the kernel line and add rd.break...
View ArticleHow To Get The Driver For The RTL8192ce PCI Card to Play Nice With Debian...
I've had an intermittent connection going on with Sparky Linux which is based on Debian Testing. If you have the: Code: 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe...
View ArticleUse The dd Command to Make a Flash Drive Bootable
Sometimes Unetbootin doesn't work and leaves things on the drive behind. Using the dd command is very useful and only takes a few minutes. First execute; as root, fdisk -l to find out what drive the...
View ArticleHow To Fix The UID Issue
There's nothing more irritating than not being able to mount your other drives while your booted into your favorite distro. This has happened twice on my Linux systems and thanks to our Guru...
View ArticleHow To Make Elementary OS Loki and other Ubuntu Systems Boot Faster
If your Elementary OS Loki or other Ubuntu based system (16.04) is taking a long time to boot up all you need to do is change the seconds of the DefaultTimeoutStart. BEFORE hand cp the sudo cp...
View ArticleRemoving a PPA From Ubuntu
I have consistently gotten this message with Ubuntu and other Ubuntu based distro's.... Code: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored or old ones used instead Generally the way to...
View ArticleHow to get Amarok working in Slackware 14.2
Hi: After a fresh installation of Slackware I wanted to hear my music and Amarok just didn't want to play nice. After a few searches I found that you need some plugins in order for Amarok to play mp3...
View ArticleHow To Install Xiphos on Debian
Hi: First go to Xiphos.org and download the src pkg, tar.gz. http://xiphos.org/download/ Now the install file says to go to Git Hub to download Xiphos but that link didn't work for me so I downloaded...
View ArticleA Start Job Is Running ERROR
If you get this error message upon booting up chances are it's a simple fix. My Debian system would boot but would be delayed with a 1 min and 30s error message. Code: A start job is running for...
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