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Linux/Ubuntu

by Craig Mayhew



NX Server on CentOS 6


Install nxserver yum install nx freenx cd /etc/nxserver cp node.conf.sample node.conf vi node.conf Ensure that this line is not commented out: ENABLE_PASSDB_AUTHENTICATION="1" Setup NX Server vi…




Ubuntu screen brightness on EliteBook 8530w


Ubuntu versions 10.04 and 10.10 had various issues with the screen brightness on my HP EliteBook 8530w. It wasn't possible to adjust the brightness which was a real problem if the screen dimmed while power…




Upgrading Ubuntu to 10.10 - blacklisted blcr-dkms_0.8.2-13 Error


If you get the following error when your upgrading: An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: Trying to install blacklisted version 'blcr-dkms_0.8.2-13' To fix, simply search for the package…




Mounting a windows share on linux


This command will mount a windows share on Ubuntu 10.10 (and obviously other versions): sudo mount -t cifs //1.2.3.4/ShareName/ /media/share -o username=yourUserName,password=yourPassword,allow_other "1.2.3.4"…




Asus Aspire One network manager applet disappeared!


It appears one of the updates to the linpus linux operating system used on Asus Aspire One netbooks messes up the networking. In short the permissions get set wrongly on the network settings files. Symptons include, not…




noatime


The noatime option tells an ext filesystem to not update the "last accessed" timestamp every time a file is opened. This enables you to save disk i/o and have you disk caches perform much better. You need to edit the…



centos   nomachine   gnome   kde   Ubuntu 10.04   Ubuntu 10.10   Ubuntu 11.04   HP EliteBook 8530w   Ubuntu 10.04   Linux/Ubuntu   Samba   Acer Aspire One   Linpus   Ext   noatime   fstab  


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