Posts By: jonny

I did the following in no particular order to get my Kubuntu working the way I wanted it to:—————————————————For ProxyI have added:export http_proxy=”http://192.168.8.249:80/” to 3 different files:/etc/environment/etc/profile/etc/bash.bashrc—————————————————-For Remote Desktopsudo apt-get install rdesktop—————————————————-For Windows shares in /etc/fstab//192.168.8.40/Server /home/jonny/documents/beeches3 smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=jonny,gid=jonny 0 0//192.168.8.40/itadmin /home/jonny/documents/itadmin smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=jonny,gid=jonny 0 0//192.168.8.40/Jonny /home/jonny/documents/beeches3jonny smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=jonny,gid=jonny 0 0//192.168.8.187/Web /home/jonny/documents/webshare smbfs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,uid=jonny,gid=jonny 0… Read more »

Editing HTML code manually To edit an existing HTML page, add the WMODE parameters to the HTML code. 1. Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag: param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” 2. Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag: wmode=”transparent”

There seems to be a bug in kubuntu (Breezy 5.10) in holding the Gateway address in the Network Settings. When typing ftp or telnet at the command line I got an error messgae of: Network unreachableI was still able to browse the web using Firefox etc but I was unable to use FTP or Krdc… Read more »

You can convert .rpm packages to .deb using alien. If you dont have alien installed already then type this in Terminal: apt-get install alien Once you have alien, cd to the directory with the rpm file and type: alien -d .rpm and u will have a .deb package ready to be installed in your directory.

I needed to be root in order to install crossover office shell script. Using sudo would not work. To sort this out I opened a console and:sudo passwd I entered the password I wanted for the root user and then entered the following which allowed me to log in as the root user:su – For… Read more »

Successfully installed Kubuntu 5.10 Breezy and found the following useful:Automatix is good (installs propriety/software patent restricted stuff which cannot be included with Kubuntu/Ubuntu). The following links are useful:– I tried the instructions at the following address but got dependency issues:http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=138405 – To solve the dependency issues I had to:Get an updated sources.list for apt for… Read more »

I tried to install Kubuntu onto an old machine that had Windows XP on it. I had previously put a newer bigger hard drive into this machine.When I installed Kubuntu everything went fine until it rebooted and I got a Grub error 18. I discovered that old BIOSs have difficulty booting larger disks so I… Read more »

I’ve wanted a wireless router for some time although never bothered my ass but I got my Wanadoo Livebox today. I have been frustrated for some time with the Speedtouch 330 and although I got it working on Suse 9.2 and 9.3 there were still some services I could not use with the SPeedtouch (e.g…. Read more »

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_suse_9.3 includes Apache, PHP, Mail, DNS etc

TAR RPMrpm -Uvh packagename.rpm APT on SUSEapt –no-checksig install softwarename APT on Ubunut sudo apt-get install softwarename GETTING THE IP ADDRESSsu (to be root)ifconfig