This has caused me grief in the past so here is a simple way to get them to install: First make sure your mounted the vbox additions ISO in the virtual cdrom drive using the GUI, then just do the following: mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom cd /cdrom sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install build-essential dkms linux-headers-$(uname [...]
I just stumbled upon this news on Distrowatch, seems the Linux Mint fellows have a new project: Linux Mint Debian! Instead of using the stable release of Debian they are using the testing branch (Squeeze) and it will be a rolling release like Sidux. Now, I was not too fond of Sidux because it had [...]
This whole streaming hype sometimes makes you think it’s the ideal way of doing things. But sometimes it’s just a hassle to setup the streaming server and possibly have to deal with lower quality than the original file to boot. My solution for listening to my music at work now is to just mount my [...]
Just stumbled upon this little program which optimizes JPEG images. In my directory of thumbnails it saved an easy 20KB for only 16 images, so that’s not half bad if you ask me. Every little bit helps I’ve been working on a little gallery in Zend Framework, and am generating thumbnails in a cache dir. [...]
This has been popping up on sites today, and people are installing from .deb files downloaded out of the Mint repo’s. Now, I like to keep my software up-to-date and thus don’t like installing loose .deb files without adding the repo where they came from. Just a note of warning: this is meant for Ubuntu [...]
Before I start I am asuming you have already downloaded your copy of teamspeak 3 and unpacked it. For reference I will assume the path to where you unpacked TS3 is: /home/ts3/teamspeak3-server_linux-amd64 Now to make an autostart script you can actually just reuse the one that comes with TS3: ts3server_startscript.sh The only thing I did [...]
Well it seems Canonical has finally decided on the name for the newly announced Ubuntu version, to be released in April 2011. It will be called Natty Narwhal. What wikipedia has to say about the Narwhal: The narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is a medium-sized toothed whale that lives year-round in the Arctic. One of two species [...]
I followed the really simple guide posted by my VPS hoster for upgrading my VPS to Ubuntu Lucid. It took quite a while to run, but after adding a single row to /etc/fstab it restarted without problems! Seriously, I didn’t change a single thing and everything “just worked”.. That’s how it’s supposed to be! Now [...]
I never knew how to do this before, and never really needed it since I pretty much know my motherboard models by heart. However, with the increasingly weird model numbers these days from companies like Gigabyte and Asus I can’t seem to remember them anymore. I also have way too many computers to take care [...]
It seems this new kernel is something to get a little excited about! For more information than I can give to you in a sane manner check out this page: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_35 A list of things that have changed: Transparent spreading of incoming network traffic load across CPUs Btrfs improvements XFS Delayed logging KDB kernel debugger [...]