You ever have one of those days where Linux freezes on you (cue gasps of horror — Yes, Linux actually does that), and the always useful Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key combination doesn’t do anything? Or perhaps you find out the hard way that it’s been disabled in your distro?
Say hello to the magic of the SysRq key. [...]
Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category
HOWTO: Smoothly restart a hard-frozen Linux system
Posted in Tips, tagged crash, freeze, Linux on December 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
HOWTO: openBVE on (Ubuntu) Linux
Posted in Tech, Tips on August 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While trying to remain as distribution-generic as I can, this HOWTO will, as a matter of course, focus on Debian and Ubuntu. This information is current as of openBVE 1.2 and Tao Framework 2.1.0.
If you just want it to work: openBVE is available in Ubuntu’s repository now (as of 9.04, see here), but it lags [...]
Freakin’ Cool App of the Week: Screenlets (+ Mini HOWTO: Possibly fix Screenlets startup issues)
Posted in Freakin' Cool App of the Week, Tech, Tips on July 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Looking for the HOWTO? Feel free to go right to it.
If you use Vista’s sidebar gadgets, you already know the essence of Screenlets. If you use OSX’s widgets or Yahoo! widgets, you already know the essence of Screenlets. Can you guess what it is yet?
Screenlets is a framework for such gadgets and gizmos on, you [...]
IE7 parallel with IE6 (on XP anyway)
Posted in Tech, Tips on July 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’d been meaning to post about this for a while but I never got around to it.
One random, lonely, boring day (really every day) I started digging through some files and happened upon something like this in IE’s Program Files folder:
“No,” I thought, “surely not.” Surely so, it turns out. That’s not just an old IE icon, that’s [...]
HOWTO: Get UNIX (and Internet) time to display on GNOME’s clock again
Posted in Tech, Tips, tagged Gnome, Internet time, Linux, Ubuntu, UNIX, UNIX time on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As said in my last post, I thought it was really cool that the UNIX clock will roll over to “1234567890″ on my birthday. I want to take a screenshot of it, so today I tried to figure out how to add the option back to GNOME’s panel clock applet. Note that this is biased [...]
HOWTO: Change the Language in The Sims 2
Posted in Tips, tagged howto, language, Sims 2 on December 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If you’re like me, a language lover and occasional Simster, you’ve probably seen the article on ModTheSims2 about how to change the display language. Up until fairly recently, the article was out-of-sync as to how languages are numbered in the game. I wrote this tutorial to compensate for that.
It’s since been fixed, but here’s my [...]
HOWTO: Atheros 5007EG wireless on Ubuntu using ndiswrapper
Posted in Tips, tagged 5007EG, Atheros, Linux, madwifi, ndiswrapper, tutorial, Ubuntu, wireless on July 4, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This tutorial is based on one from here: http://sidrit.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/hardy-on-acer-aspire-5315/
Check out his blog for tons more Ubuntu tips.
HOWTO: Firefox 3 + Flash + Ubuntu = Fun!
Posted in Tips, tagged Firefox, Flash, Gnash, Linux, swfdec, Ubuntu, YouTube on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: I know this tutorial sucks, but it’s hard to make it better as I’ve not had these problems lately nor do I have much more patience to work on it. So, it’s here if it helps, if not I’m sorry. I’ll do the best I can to get a good one eventually.
As evidenced [...]
Linux gets better every day
Posted in Tech, Tips, tagged dvd, Linux, technology, Ubuntu on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Because after a long time without it, I can finally play DVDs. Seriously I have no reason to use Windows anymore.
If you’re curious I used this guide: http://www.ubuntu1501.com/2007/11/how-to-play-encrypted-copyrighted-dvds.html
(It applies to Dells running Gutsy but just change Gutsy to Feisty in the commands and it will work. Works with any computer despite the blog’s name) [...]
