Slackware 13 has still the same unintuitive style with some things – i.e. akonadi doesn’t start in kde and it doesn’t say why, and so on. One of the problems you will encounter is that Mysql doesn’t start. Yes, if you look in /usr/doc/mysql… you will find the reason. Here’s what you have to...
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I have a linux Jukebox ! [2011 update]
Finally, after years of putting it away, after a few design changes and a fried motherboard I have a linux jukebox. Well, not a jukebox but more an internet radio. Check at the bottom for the latest updates. When I first had the ideea I noticed an old ~ ’50s Blaupunkt Radio my father...
VLC media player 1.0.0 – Goldeneye is out !
In the good tradition of Open Source projects VideoLAN has been at a version < 1.0 for ages. Traditionally 1.0 would be a complete, stable release. Well VideoLAN is there. Actually has been there for some time, I use it constantly and besides an uglier than usual interface has been stable and useful for...
Open office to the rescue
Last Thursday I was happily walking to the bus station to start a prolonged weekend when a friend and client ranged. Microsoft Excel was giving her trouble: she was working on some inventory files with lots of records and pretty complex. To add to the problem the data was copied and pasted from an...
Pidgin would not connect to Yahoo Messenger
I run pidgin on my windows machines because, I basically hate the bloat of the official Yahoo Messenger and because I also need google talk. For a few days I could not connect to Yahoo. Going to Manage Accounts (CTRL+A) -> your problem yahoo account -> Advanced and changing the server to cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com solved...
This is how you can read your EXT2 and EXT3 partitions from Windows XP
My main workstation has a dual (sometimes tri) boot configuration: some flavour of linux (usually slackware) and some flavour of windows (usually xp). I have small partitions for the operating systems and one – two big ones for data. In the past, the data ones used to be FAT32 so they would be readable...
Freenas and Bittorent/transmission problems
I ran into two problems with the Transmission BitTorrent client built into FreeNAS 0.69.1 and here you can find the solutions, both for the wrong file & folder permissions and the downloads missing / forgotten between reboots.
Recover your lost linux slackware root password
I’m an avid Slackware user. It was the distro I started using back in ’98 and, even if I tried and used many others I still like it the most. Anyways these rules apply to many other flavours of linux. One of the problems I faced is needing to make changes on inherited machines...
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Ok, so I wanted a NAS on my home network. Easy job with the right tools at hand.
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