Had some trouble with something I'd had earlier trouble with in the past. When using the locate command (even after running updatedb), I was unable to search my removable USB drives. The solution was to modify the /etc/updatedb.conf file, and remove ...
So I recently set up a VirtualBox VM on my Windows 7 machine so I could access my XFS hard disk through a network share. Being there's no way to hide a VirualBox VM by default (even by running in headless mode), I went ahead & wrote a quick C program...
Yesterday, I got some work fixing a PC that was loaded with trojans. After a repair installation of XP Pro w/SP2, I was brought to the activation window which could not hit the internet. Thinking the problem was a driver issue, I quickly pulled the W...
I recently struggled with this one for work, after I made a change to IIS on our terminal server (Server 2008 Standard). I could not launch TS RemoteApps, as credentials were being consistently rejected, though correct. The only error I could find in...
I was recently working on a project for my boss when I found I needed to install some new fonts for GIMP. I had downloaded some free TTF's from http://www.1001freefonts.com/ & needed to install them. Restarting X was a pain, so I found the following ...
The G.729 codec is a low-bandwidth codec, excellent for use in VoIP. In this case, a client which my company manages wanted to minimize bandwidth usage from VoIP phones traveling through a VPN. Both the G729 & G723 codec are freely available from her...
I bought a PS3 several months ago, and wanted to try streaming movies to the PS3 using something like Mediatomb or PS3 Media Server (my personal favorite). My first attempted involved transcoding & wireless..the combination resulted in endless lag & ...
This is a bit of an irritating error, with a simple solution: > /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found > Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? > Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. > Added Linux \ First of all, we ne...
This one should be relatively easy for people, but I'd just like to document the steps taken anyway--I had a bit of a time getting Compiz to start properly in Xfce. Please note these are not best practices & are simply the steps to get compiz working...
