Archive For The “linux” Category
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…
The 6th installment of the very successful Humble Indie Bundle (HIB) includes the acclaimed Adventure RPG (ARPG) Torchlight. Released back in 2009, this is the first part of the franchise from Runic Games. This particular game (well actually it was Torchlight 2, the sequel) has caught my eye, and interest, for the past month since…
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 MySQLÂ 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…