http://www.netvouz.com/narky/tag/linux?feed=rss&pg=1 narky's bookmarks tagged "linux" on Netvouz http://www.psychocats.net/essays/linuxdesktopmyth Great discussion article on why linux isn't on more desktops. It's entirely possible that you may not have heard of Linux. Maybe you own a Mac or Windows computer and don't read the technology news. You may have a TiVo, but it doesn't have a huge sticker on the box that reads "Powered by Linux" (even though it is). You may use Google, but it doesn't have any announcement on its homepage that it's run on Linux servers (even though it is). Whether you've heard of Linux or not--it probably plays a role in your life somehow. Computing > Linux narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:43:09 GMT http://www.pcmech.com/show/os/917/1/ Alright, so you have successfully installed Ubuntu Linux, but now what do you do with it? You are in the right place. I am going to get you started with a guide on how to use your new Ubuntu system. This transition guide is targeted at existing Windows users and will show you how to do program installations, a little system configuration, but primarily highlight some Windows "replacement" programs for common applications you can't live without. This guide's intent is to introduce you to equivalent programs to what you are accustomed to and, hopefully, to cover a good amount of what you might want in a new install. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:16:42 GMT http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/BreezyCust Breezy Customization Guide.This guide is a continued WIP, and contains information/tips for streamlining your Breezy system. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:41:03 GMT http://www.fstop-blues.com/2005/05/building-home-theater-pc-part-2.html Good set of links towards installing MythTV. So the first home theater software package I am going to try out is going to by MythTV for Linux. There are several different ways you can go to install MythTV depending on which Linux distribution you want to use. Computing > HTPC > Howto narky Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:03:50 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=212482 A simple lookup on where to find the terminal history... I'm not sure if there's a command to clear the history, but I know they're stored in ~/.bash_history so I guess what I'd do is open the file up and manually delete the entries. Code: sudo gedit ~/.bash_history Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:18:12 GMT http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=408086 Making network shares accesible from any app in linux. Handy howto! Computing > Linux > Howto narky Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:04:17 GMT http://www.debuntu.org/2006/05/31/58-how-to-smbfs-smbmnt-must-be-installed-suid-root/ Okay, so I was trying to mount SAMBA shares so all the programs could see them. Sounds simply it's so not! So when I finally found a program that could find the shares. They wouldn't mount. You have to follow this guys code. see note. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:54:13 GMT http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80492&highlight=amarok+svn I've always had odd problems with the version of amaroK that came with Breezy and Hoary. It is also my favorite application on linux! For that reason I like to have the very latest version of it installed. The way to do that is to periodically build it from the latest SVN source. The amaroK community provides an automated script that makes the process fairly easy, but you have to install a number of development files in order to get it to compile. This how-to will walk you through that process. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:08:34 GMT https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/446/ Allow you to launch embed video of website in an external application with a simple click * Replace the stream by a simple button * And/Or add links to right click * Works with RealMedia, QuickTime, WindowsMedia, Playlists, Flash, background sounds, Nullsoft video, Shockwave * Allow the use of any capable media player (with command line support) Computing > Linux narky Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:02:27 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288534 I was having the most difficult time in the world trying to figure out how to mount samba shares which were created on a Japanese windows 2000 server and transferred over to my replacement Ubuntu network file server. Nautilus mounted them fine, and displayed the correct folder and file names, but the files were not cashed which caused very slow response times, and I was having difficulty with my keyring among other things. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:02:05 GMT