Upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Since a coming version of LinuxMCE will be based on Kubuntu 7.10 I started thinking about upgrade my home PC. I found this manual explained how to do an upgrade using a package manager. I played a bit with Kubuntu installed under VMware and couldn’t upgrade successful. Adopt manager crashed every time when the text [...]

Proxy definition for APT

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Recently when I started to upgrade Kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10 using Adopt manager I faced with problem. It doesn’t get proxy setting from the system. To solve that a following line should be added into file /etc/apt/apt.conf (you have to create it if it doesn’t exist):
Acquire::http::Proxy “http://user:password@proxy_URL:proxy_Port”;
User name and password can be omitted if [...]

Printing from RedHat 9 to Xerox Workcenter M123

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Today I spent some time to setup Xerox Workcenter M123 in the RedHat 9. The difficulty was in the cups version. There is an old one which doesn’t allow to pick up PPD file during configuration. So, everything I did manually. But printer didn’t print test page. It just waited a few seconds and skipped [...]

Moving to Wordpress 2.3.1

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Today I moved my blog to the latest version of Wordpress 2.3.1. I was afraid a bit to do that immediately right after release. Because the 2.3.1 includes a native support of tags. But I, as many other bloggers, used plug-in “Ultimate Tag Warrior”. So, I’d like to have some tool to import them. I [...]

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.2

Friday, June 29th, 2007

I upgraded Smart Home Blog to the latest version of Wordpress 2.2. As usual the upgrade procedure is extremely easy. But there were a few troubles with that version.
1. Dashboard didn’t work properly. It gave a error
You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/index-extra.php on this server.
The solution is to create a file .htaccess [...]

Howto shutdown Windows PC in specified time

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Probably, the easiest way is this:

Go to Start –> Run and run command cmd to open command line window

Run this command
shutdown -s -t 1800

That’s it. Your PC will be shutdown after 30 minutes.
The same way you can reboot/shutdown Windows PC via remote desktop.
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Grub is really cool!

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

AS I already wrote I made a small upgrade of my home PC: I boutgh LCD display and new hard drive. I installed the hard drive as a master and an old one as slave. The problem was I had two OS on the old disk - Linux and Windows and used GRUB as boot [...]

How to mount USB storage

Monday, September 5th, 2005

To mount some USB drive do following:

create a new mount point:
mkdir /mnt/usb

add row
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat auto,iocharset=utf8,user 0 0
into /etc/fstab

Note: parameter users allows to mount USB drive under non-root account!
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