Archive For The “linux” Category
Yeah, whut?! I have noticed this for a while ever since I setup this site a few weeks ago. While I uploaded everything by hand through good old `scp` at first, it really didn’t occur to me then that there was something weird going on. I didn’t bother with it so much then. All that…
First encountered this bug in 2017. It is almost 2 years now and they still have not gotten to fix it. Well, somebody actually said they already have a fix for it but have not committed it yet since according to them, and I quote: “We’ve had a fix for this in review for a…
Netflix is perhaps one of the biggest users of Microsoft Silverlight. Based on my browsing habits, I rarely encounter websites using Pipelight technology. Most other sites are either using the good old Adobe Flash or HTML5 for streaming. Besides, most of my online streaming needs are quite satiated by YouTube. While Netflix is not available…
Here’s a neat little program to restrict server access of Linux user accounts to SCP and/or SFTP only. It is called rssh. What it does is, and I quote: rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp. It now also includes support for rdist, rsync, and cvs. For example,…
This is the scenario.. . You open a file using `vim` (or `vi`), let us say /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, and start editing furiously. A couple of minutes later you try to save it only to be greeted with an error saying – “E45: ‘readonly’ option is set (add ! to override)”. What a bummer! You have already…
Needed something new and fresh. Despite the fact that I despise anything that even remotely resembles a Mac OS X look, I do not have too much options (?) on Linux desktop-land. I have Ubuntu 14.04 running smoothly on my 4 year old laptop. KDE is what I have for my work PC. That leaves…
So I have been using KDE for the past 2 months now and have been loving it. Then again I have always been a KDE lover. Since I started using Linux for my desktops I have used a lot of desktop environments (DE) such as XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment and Gnome (Of course, it’s pretty much…
Welcome 2014! It is a new year and I have a new desktop – the beautiful and shiny KDE. Actually, it is not my first time to have used this desktop environment on Linux. It is sort of a “comeback.” Back in the KDE 3.x days (and early 4.x), I was a heavy and loyal…
This might happen to you as it did to me when I upgraded my Ubuntu 13.04 to Ubuntu 13.10, so let me write down the steps that was taken to fix the issue. Issue: Keyboard not functioning 100% after login. It does not output any characters when typing something on most of the applications. Description:…
If like me you use either, or both, Faenza and Numix as your icon and GTK themes, respectively, and you recently upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, chances are you might have some issues. During the upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10, the installer suggested that I remove some packages. There were a lot and I…
Usually when I connect to a remote server via SSH, I am very fond of opening 2 or more connections to that server on several terminal windows. Often I close the terminal window before doing a proper `logout` from the SSH session. In most cases, the SSH connection should disconnect and the corresponding process will…
The last 2 days I was setting up Nagios to monitor a few local and public servers on both Linux and Windows OS. For Linux, everything was smooth-sailing. Other than some typos in the configuration file, I hardly encountered any issues at all. Most of the issues I’ve encountered so far were on Windows servers….
This happened to me just recently as I was trying to connect to a remote Windows server using Remmina Remote Desktop Client. I was getting an error after entering the login details, so I could not login to the remote server. I have been using this tool for a long time and it has always…
It is certainly something ambitious. Very ambitious. Not only does it attempt to break crowdfunding campaign records across all the boards, it is also like aiming for the moon. Even if the Ubuntu Edge campaign is far from its $32 million goal, it already has broken a few crowdfunding records since the first week that…
Today, I was trying to print something at work and found out that our old Brother MFC 8840D printer was now replaced with a Fuji-Xerox DocuCentre-II C3300. The printer comes up in the network and is successfully identified (full printer name), but the driver is not listed anywhere. At least I didn’t find one that…
When `ssh-add` does not work as expected because a ‘Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.’ error comes out, this might help: eval `ssh-agent` There are environment variables that needs to be set and doing the command above will essentially do just that but with far lesser key strokes. It is also easier…
6th Nov 2012 is a memorable day for Ubuntu/Linux users. It is the day that Valve has started the Steam For Linux closed beta testing. For many gamers out there, casual or hardcore, I’m sure they are familiar with Steam. Who wouldn’t be? And for Linux users, particularly those who use Ubuntu, many would be…
If you are among the countless people using Eclipse IDE as your platform for software development in Java (or other supported languages) on Ubuntu, then you may have noticed that it does not integrate at all into the global menu on Unity. Not a deal breaker actually, right. This does not even hamper you with…
Adobe Flash Settings always worked fine back when I was still using Ubuntu Natty Narwhal in that whenever a Flash application needs permission to access my laptop’s camera and microphone, I can click on the Allow/Deny options. On Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot Flash settings is unclickable and it will eventually hang and crash whenever it asks…
This is a fix on how to access the files on your phone via bluetooth on Ubuntu 11.10. I found it recently when I realized that bluetooth on my laptop was not working like it did on Ubuntu 11.04. Sure, the bluetooth dongle and my phones are detected without problems. Even searching for other active…
Assuming you already have Ruby, RubyGems and MySQL installed on your system, along with the necessary development files and tools for compiling, this may help you avoid a lot of confusing errors when you are trying to set up Webistrano. I got stuck at the part – rake db:migrate. One error would come out after…
My upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot had been a smooth one albeit a bit late. Originally I was going to stay with Natty Narwhal and wait for the next LTS version – 12.04 Precise Pangolin – come April this year. What with 12.04 coming up fast in a mere 3 months and all the…
It is not often that I stumble upon a website that uses Microsoft Silverlight. I am sure there are thousands of websites that use this technology. I am aware that Netflix uses Silverlight heavily. Still, I think it is safe to say, that Silverlight is not as commonly used as Adobe Flash. So what happens…
This is a known bug. One that has been mentioned several times on the Ubuntu and Linux Mint forums as far back as July this year, and maybe even earlier. Honestly I don’t remember this happening on my old desktop computer – Intel Core 2 CPU with a 250GT NVIDIA graphics card. Lately, I’ve been…
(Well, technically, this technique should work on most, if not all, Linux distros.) What to do when your Ubuntu crashes or freezes? We all have encountered this before for no apparent reason. Either it does not reach the desktop and you are left staring at a black screen or a pretty wallpaper. Another not so…