How-To: Convert a WordPress site from Multisite to Standalone install
Since wordpress 3.0, it is possible to create a network or site by using the multisite feature. It allows to manage multiple wordpress websites from a single...
Softwares
How-To: using Python Virtual Environments
A nice thing about Python is that there is tons of modules available out there. Not all those modules are readily available for your distro and even if there...
How-To: Bash Parameter Expansion and String Manipulation
Last time we saw how bash can help us in handling default values out of the box using parameter expansion. This time we will see how basic string operations ...
How-To: Bash Parameter Expansion and Default Values
Bash is a sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. There is much more to bash than run...
How-To: OpenVPN on Debian Squeeze with Username/Password authentication
OpenVPN is a SSL based VPN software that runs on most OS. It is simple to install and run.
Terminator is getting a plugin system
I already spoke about Terminator a while back. Since then,, quite some time has passed and lots of features were added…
How-To: Changing the default text editor
There is a few software that will use the editor command to find out what text editor to use. Example commands will be dch to add a new .deb changelog entry,...
Vmware Workstation: DNS not working with NAT
Lately, I have been experiencing a funny network issue when using VMware Workstation VMs with NAT interface. Roughly, the IP network was working fine, but DN...
How-To: Setting up BGP on Vyatta — page 3 — Setting BGP
We have set up our network, now let’s get BGP rolling.
How-To: Setting up BGP on Vyatta — page 2 — Network interfaces
Now that we have defined what we will be setting up, let’s build this up.
How-To: Setting up BGP on Vyatta
Vyatta is a Linux based distro that ease the set up of VPN, Routers, antivirus…. It has a really small footprint on your system as it only requires something...
How-To: Bzr over ssh with no bzr server
Bazaar (bzr) is a distributed version control system (VCS) sponsored by Canonical and thus bzr is widely used by the Ubuntu community.
Terminator 0.9 beta 1
Terminator 0.9, an application that allow you to have multiple terminal within the same window, is getting close to be released. FeatureFreeze has been start...
Transmission 1.22 .deb for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
transmission, a lightweight bittorrent client version 1.22 was released on the 14th of June 2008.
How-To: Import/Export GPG key pair
This tutorial will show how you can export and import a set of GPG keys from one computer to another. This way, you can sign/encrypt the same way one differ...
How To: fixing Evolution after home directory changed (Failed to append to mbox)
Lately, I change my main user’s username and homedir location. As a result, some application like evolution were kindda broken.
Terminator: A multi-view terminal
Terminator gives the possibility of having multiples terminal within the same window.
How-To: getting VMware-server 2.0 beta MUI Remote Console to work with Firefox
Lately, I have been trying vmware-server 2.0 beta build 63231. It worked pretty well, but for the fact that the Remote Console to the VM was not working thro...
How-To: Customize your Ubuntu Live CD — page 2
We have now set up the base live cd, let’s make this live CD our own by customizing it.
How-To: Customize your Ubuntu Live CD
Live CD are great, they let you try out a distribution without installing it. They allow you to run your favorite distribution on any computer and on the top...
How-To: Find missing packages with apt-file
apt-file is a command line tool for searching packages in Debian/Ubuntu repositories. Unlike apt-cache search, apt-file can find files in uninstalled or can...
How-To: Managing services with update-rc.d
Linux services can be started, stopped and reloaded with the use of scripts stocked in /etc/init.d/.
pidgin-libnotify: Gaim-libnotify for Pidgin 2.x
If there is one plugin that I was missing from gaim since I use pidgin, this was gaim-libnotify. Gaim libnotify pops-up small notification messages when you ...
Pidgin 2.0.0 .deb for Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
Pidgin, the new name of Gaim as released its version 2.0.0.
SubtitleEditor 0.20.0alpha1 is out.
Today, subtitleeditor 0.20.0alpha1 was released.
How-To: Import Thunderbird Emails to Evolution
Lately, I wanted to make the move from Thunderbird to Evolution.
How-To: Play DVD under Ubuntu
DVD are usually encrypted and therefore, due to legal reasons, Ubuntu Linux does not ship the package which decrypt DVD.
How-to: VMware-server – VMware-workstation 5.5 under Ubuntu Feisty
Since Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn, Ubuntu is using a standard kernel 2.6.20. Because of a few changes in the API, VMware-server and VMware-workstation 5.5 fail ...
How-To: Compiz Cube on multiple desktops
Under Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04, compiz is the default desktop effect window manager.
Subtitleeditor 0.12.2: new languages
subtitleeditor 0.12.2 has been released. This new version comes with some languages updates as well as some new languages.
Subtitleeditor 0.12, Faster than ever
Hey guys, subtitleeditor 0.12 has been released, this release is a real improvement in term of optimisations. You can now open subtitle in a sec and move/sca...
gaim-2.0.0beta5 .deb for edgy eft and feisty the fawn
Gaim 2.0.0beta5 has just been released. There is a lot of bug fixes from beta4.
gaim-2.0.0beta4 .deb package for ubuntu Edgy Eft
Gaim 2.0.0beta4 has been released, amongst the new features, we can point out gaim-text, a console based interface to gaim developed by Sadrul during Google ...
mldonkey-server not starting at boot time: Edgy Eft
After reinstalling mldonkey-server on my new edgy installation, it appeared that mldonkey-server was not starting on boot up :s.
Subtitleeditor 0.10 released
subtitleeditor 0.10 has been released. This release comes with new features and a bunch of bug fixes.
Subtitleeditor-0.9.1 is out, new features, new .deb
Subtitleeditor 0.9.1has been released. This subtitle editor I already told about in previous articles continue its evolution.
nload, a network traffic analyser
nload is a ncurse based network traffic analyser. Being a ncurse based tools, you do not need to start X in order to use that software which is necessary whe...
How To: Screen the Ultimate admin tool — page 2
This is part 2 of the serie How To: Screen the Ultimate admin tool
How To: Screen the Ultimate admin tool
Screen is a must know GNU console tool, this small piece of software comes really handy when you are working on a console or sending long processes on a remo...
How To: Disabling your Touchpad while typing
In a previous article, I showed how to configure your laptop touchpad in such a way that you could use every neats features by using the synaptics package an...
How To: Setting up Touchpad on a Laptop – A Complete Guide — page 5
5. How to use the advanced feature of your Touchpad
How To: Setting up Touchpad on a Laptop – A Complete Guide — page 4
4. Explanation on those directives
How To: Setting up Touchpad on a Laptop – A Complete Guide — page 3
3. Configuring Xorg:
How To: Setting up Touchpad on a Laptop – A Complete Guide — page 2
2. Synaptics installation
How To: Setting up Touchpad on a Laptop – A Complete Guide
Every laptop comes with a usefull thing when you don’t want to carry your mouse around: a Touchpad, most of the time, touchpads do work out of the box but no...
Monitor your computer with saidar
saidar is a curses-based tool using libstatgrab library in order to gather information about your system state.
Subtitleeditor-0.8.0 stable, a Linux subtitles editor
A new release of subtitleeditor, a GTK+2 subtitle editor for linux, is out. Bug fixes from alpha versions, new features…
How-To smbfs: smbmnt must be installed suid root
Quite often, when using program such as smb4k, I encountered the following error:
How To: subversion SVN with Apache2 and DAV
Subversion is an application used for version control, it is meant to become a replacement of CVS Concurrent Versions System. Subversion is also known as svn.
How To: APT guide
Apt is the debian tool to install, remove and search packages. It is a front-end to the dpkg package manager and offer easy searching, installing …, by using...
Subtitleeditor-0.8-alpha1 is out
Subtitleeditor-0.8-alpha1 is out :). As its release name says, it is still to be in development and might be unstale by time. Great features have been added ...
How To: synchronising subtitles with subtitleeditor
In a previous article I introduced subtitleeditor and explained how-to create a new subtitle from scratch. This article is going to explain how you can synch...
How To: editing subtitles with subtitleeditor
In a previous article, I introduced gsubedit, a GNOME Subtitle Editor for linux using GTK. It was the best subtitles editor I’d ever found for linux.