Fedora Autologin Specified User
Here is a little trick to allow a specified user to Autologin at system boot for Fedora (Fedora 12 at the time of this writing): I do suggest that if the system has curtial data or is in a somewhat public location (Dormroom, office, house with a lot of traffic through it ….) don’t do [...]
Fedora T-6000U DigiPro or Aiptek Tablet
Apparent DigiPro tablets are using Aiptek hardware and you can see this by running the following two commands with the tablet plugged in, (When you run the commands without the tablet plugged in you will notice you will not find Aiptek in the list unless of coarse you have other Aiptek hardware).
Fedora RPM Fusion Repositories
For the sake of making a long story short, patent and copyright restrictions, complicates Fedora’s ability to distributing software to support proprietary formats such as DVD, MP3, Quicktime, Windows Media, aa well as other propietary formats. While Fedora has limitaions on including nonfree software by default meaning that proprietary media formats such as the ones [...]
ShopWiki Comparisons, Gift Ideas and More
OK, anybody who knows me knows that if I am going to buy something, be it a computer, new shoes, or simply a new shirt. I have a very difficult time buying it from the first store I see it at. I guess you could say I have a shopping complex, I could be called [...]
FreshBooks Online Invoicing
What is FreshBooks? FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional – Fortune 500 professional. FreshBooks is easy to use and is recommended by Webternals, LLC.
Fedora: Installing Skype
This howto covers setting up the skype repo and installing skype. If you are like me then you do your VoIP calling from your Fedora machine using the Skype network. Well lets get it installed.
Fedora: Canon Pixma IP1800 Printer Driver
Today I switched to Fedora (Fedora 11 as of this writing but 12 is only a couple days away so it should still work the same way) and one of the first things I needed to was to install the print drivers for my Canon Pixma IP1800 printer. I love my little Canon printer and [...]
jQuery in WordPress (The Right Way)
There is the right way and the wrong way to include jQuery on a WordPress page or plugin. The wrong way would be to just download jQuery, put it somewhere on your server and then make a link to it from your header.php file in the section, but like I said it is the wrong [...]
Moving the /home folder to its own partition
Just a heads up, we talk about and mention Ubuntu in the article but this will really work for any distro. Some of these instructions may vary just a bit for Logical Volumes but you should easily be able to figure out the slight differences. Having the “/home” directory tree mounted on it’s own partition [...]
Ubuntu Grub Splash Image
For some crazy reason the grub selection menu in Ubuntu does not have a splash image background install (I am guessing it is because if it were there you would hardly ever see it, unlike some M$ OSes). Anyway to add your own or just a generic one that comes with the package, you have [...]
