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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-

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Installing 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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Use 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...

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How 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...

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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 Article

Installing 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 Article

How 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 Article


How 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 Article

How 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 Article


How 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 Article

How 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 Article


How 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 Article

Use 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...

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How 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...

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