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This is a screen capture sequence installing PC Linux OS 2010 KDE in VirtualBox 3.2.0. Figure 1. Boot screen Figure 2. Keyboard Layout selection. In most cases the detected layout is appropriate. Figure 3. Click on the highlighted icon to install PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE Edition. Figure 4. Install root password, this should be root. Figure 5. GRUB options. Default should do just fine here, in my case, changed boot delay to 2 seconds. Figure 6. Default Linux image to boot machine. You should still be able to select fail safe or no frame buffer (nonfb). Figure 7. Installation is done!!! Reboot machine to configure root password and a user. Figure 8. This will be your machines password. Figure 9. Add a user here, this will be your workhorse username. Figure 10. Login to your new PCLinuxOS machine. Figure 11. Welcome to PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE Edition!!! Enjoy. ~ts

This is a quick guide to install GNOME in FreeBSD 8.0. Create a minimal install of FreeBSD, see this post . As of 5/21/2010, this will install GNOME 2.26.3 As a root user add the following packages. pkg_add -r xorg pkg_add -r gnome2 Edit /etc/rc.conf and add the following if not there yet. gdm_enable="YES" gnome_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" That's it...reboot the machine and enjoy!!! ~ts

How to install Opera in CentOS 5.5 Step 1: Head to Opera's website . Step 2: In "Select distribution and vendor", choose "CentOS". Leave the rest using the default values. Step 3: Hit on Download Opera, and save it to ~/soft. Or any other convenient location. Step 4: After download is done, do: [timus@localhost ~]$ cd ~/soft [timus@localhost soft]$ su [root@localhost soft]# rpm -i opera-10.10.gcc4.shared.qt3.i386.rpm Enjoy using Opera!!! ~ts

Google Chrome Beta (5.0.375.29 beta) cannot be installed in CentOS 5.5 due to a dependency that cannot be meet. On a freshly installed CentOS, trying to install Chrome using rpm -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm spits out the following: [root@localhost soft]# rpm -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm warning: google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 7fac5991 error: Failed dependencies: lsb >= 3.2 is needed by google-chrome-beta-5.0.375.38-46659.i386 xdg-utils is needed by google-chrome-beta-5.0.375.38-46659.i386 Unfortunately, the latest version of "lsb" that comes with CentOS 5.5 is redhat-lsb-3.1-12.3.EL.el5.centos.i386. ~ts :(

This is a screen capture documentation of FreeBSD 8.0 minimal install on VirtualBox. Before we can start the install, we need to have: a) Guest machine configuration for FreeBSD 8.0. b) ISO installer, we will be using bootonly in this case. As usual, create a guest machine configuration, below is my configuration: General Name: fbsd80 OS Type: FreeBSD System Base Memory: 512 MB Processor(s): 1 Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled Nested Paging: Enabled Display Video Memory: 9 MB 3D Acceleration: Disabled 2D Video Acceleration: Disabled Remote Display Server: Disabled Storage IDE Controller IDE Primary Master: fbsd80.vdi (Normal, 80.00 GB) IDE Secondary Master (CD/DVD): Empty Floppy Controller Floppy Device 0: Empty Audio Host Driver: Windows DirectSound Controller: ICH AC97 Network Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, Microsoft Loopback Adapter) Serial Ports Disabled USB Device Filters: 0 (0 active) Shared Folders None W

ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) in Windows XP is quite useful in few occasions. Like if you have a laptop connected to a wired connection and you want to share your connection to other wireless devices, then it can be handy. Note that Windows XP works quite well as Wireless AP in adhoc mode. There are cases where your wired connection IP range will be in 192.168.0.x, in this case ICS and adhoc sharing will not work, not at least without some tweaks. To put this in perspective, here is my network. [Cable Provider (network1)]--[Home Network (network2)]--[XP Machine with ICS (network3)] My high speed internet connection from my cable company provides dynamic ip in the range 66.90.106/22, let me call this network1. My second network (network2), is my home network. This is a wireless AP with wired capability. I was too lazy when I setup this network and used the default. So its network is 192.168.0/24. Well, this is the same network that ICS is using. For my network3, of cours

Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and modify the line that shows something about hosts: hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 Install winbind: sudo aptitude install winbind For system with more than one network and with WINS server up and running, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf, like: wins server = [ip_of_wins_server_here] name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast wins proxy = yes ~ts

Chrome and SELinux does not play nice by default in Fedora 12, see below on how to fix this: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update selinux-policy-targeted You should be running this command as root. See this link for more details. ~ts

Install the following packages - xorg-server - xinit - xorg-docs - X-start-menu-icons - inetutils - rxvt

Telnet client that comes with Debian Lenny (Linux Netkit 0.17) or Cygwin 1.7 telnet 1.7 (GNU inetutils) actively initiates option negotiation with the server. This is fine for most cases but there are old servers that just stops sending data when it does not like the option that the client tried to negotiate. To passively participate in option negotiation, telnet can run with the following argument to force it not to send any further negotiation: telnet <hostname> <port> Note here that we specified the port number. By doing so, we are basically telling telnet that negotiation is done and so wait for any packet from the server. And for old telnet server, the following .telnetrc maybe needed: DEFAULT set echo mode character set crlf ~ts

Run Emacs in a terminal: emacs -nw

I am using MinTTY in cygwin port, it looks and works nice. Below are some of the shortcuts I have come accustomed to: Copy text into Windows clipboard Ctrl-Ins Paste from Windows clipboard Shift-Ins Open new instance of MinTTY Alt-F2

Some of my .emacs customization: Hide Emacs toolbar: ;;hide emacs toolbar (tool-bar-mode 0) Highlight selection: ;;highlight selection (transient-mark-mode t) Set major mode to shell scripting M-x shell-script-mode Run an emacs lisp program in the *scratch* buffer In *scratch*, type (+ 1 1 ) Then, do: C-x C-e ~ts

This can be caused by having HOME defined in Windows system/user environment. Thus say, when you do: set HOME ... and if you get a response of "Home=D:\Home" for example then this can be fixed by: cp -p /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bash_profile ~ in Cygwin bash shell. See also this link for more information. ts

Alt-D : Goto to locator bar Ctrl-N : Open new Windows Explorer F6 : Switch between windows Shift+F10: Show context menu

Here are some of the websites that hosts fonts designed specifically programmers. Dina Programming Font ( link ) Droid Sans Mono ( link ) Envy Code R ( link ) proggy_font MonteCarlo font Code Project Font Survey ( link )

I have a system upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze and every time, during boot up sequence, I am seeing the log below: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules:11 I don't have a wacom device really, so I just decided to get rid of this error message. To do so, do: #: aptitude remove xserver-xorg-input-wacom Then, delete file z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules from /etc/udev/rules.d Is this the right way to do it? I don't know :) @timus@

I was playing around with Debian Squeeze and observed that rubberband selection and text selection is not working. The Debian Squeeze machine is a VirtualBox guest upgraded from Debian Lenny. I suspected that this maybe caused by Gnome/gtk configuration that was messed during upgrade to Squeeze. Tried to install LXDE and still no dice, same issue observed. I was guessing then that this might be an xorg driver issue (vboxvideo) or mouse (vboxmouse). I started making adjustments to my xorg.conf and waalaah.... issue fixed. This is a snippet of the original configuration: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "vboxmouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection Changed it

Work in progress!!!!! #: aptitude install x-window-system-core #: aptitude install fluxbox fluxconf #: exit (to user) $: startx From the fluxbox session, open a terminal. Do the following to install VirtualBox integration: $: su #: aptitude install build-essential #: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r #: mount /media/cdrom #: cd /media/cdrom #: sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run #: reboot We should have a nicely integrated. Note that this configuration will start in console mode (init 3). You should run startx to go to the X session. Now try to change to one of the default styles, this case "flux". menu | Styles | flux Setting up fonts in Debian - link

Note*: This is applicable to both CentOS 5.4 and 5.5, maybe applicable to older versions as well. Introduction: One of the installation methods possible in installing CentOS 5.4 is network installation or NetInstall. There are good reasons why one would like to do NetInstall and not install from the full CDs. Installing from CD means you have to download monster files. In CentOS 5.4, NetInstall iso file is only 8.9MB whereas the CDs (6 sets) are ~700MB each. So if you are planning to install just once or if you are going to use VirtualBox (note snapshot functionality, branching and cloning), then netinstall would really make sense. Note that to have good installation experience you have to have a fast connection to internet or a mirror in your intranet. To start with, you need to have VirtualBox installed. I am using W7 Home Premium with 8GB as the host machine. This should not matter much actually if you are familiar with VirtualBox. Then download netinstall iso from http:/

Configuration: OS Type: QNX Base Memory : 512 MB Storage/IDE: 80 GB Processor: 1 Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled Nested Paging: Disabled Audio/Host Driver: Windows DirectSound Controller: ICH AC97 Network : Intel PRO/1000 T Server (Bridged adapter, Microsoft Loopback Adapter) Installation: Select boot option: F3 - Install QNX to a new disk partition QNX partition: F1 to continue License: Enter your license EULA : F1 Accept Choose disk: F1 Disk larger than 8.4 GB: F1 Allow the QNX partition to be anywhere on the disk Partition Type: F1 or type 179 Partition size: F1 Use all available space Install default location:  y GNU Public License Utility package: y Configuration information...following file: Remove media: On reboot: phgrafx: - Display : 1 - Driver: svga - Color Mode: 32K (+1 bit alpha) - Resolution: 800x600 - Refresh: 60Hz - Cursor: Hardware Observed that Photon GUI is faster with vesabios driver ~ts

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