After upgrading to Lenny, everything was really smooth and in order. The only package that didn’t upgrade automatically was Quanta. So from the command line, I did a quick install of Quanta and good to go. Well, sort of. After the upgrade, I rebooted to find that my sound was broken. Up in the top [...]

The directions below are a bit outdated with the latest version of Ubuntu. You can still disable IPv6 in Firefox per the instructions below, but if you’re on Ubuntu (or any variety of Ubuntu), there is no longer the alias file.
Instead, use sysctl to disable IPv6 without rebooting by typing this in Terminal (you may [...]

Yesterday I decided to take my debian system from Etch to Lenny, stable to testing. Quite a few of the programs I use had some major upgrades that I wanted to get. So, I planned to take an hour or two and convert to Lenny. It took forever! But, from that experience I learned alot, [...]

So, you want to install Picasa software for your Linux / Debian system? Easy enough, we just have to add the repository and the software key info to our package manager. Ok, fetch a snack, we’re gonna go back into the command line!
Within Debian or other Linux system, open a Terminal Window in Super User [...]

Note: I updated this article for the Lenny distro. I’m using the source repositories in the US.
Here is the most basic, stable sources.list that I’m using for Linux Debian the Lenny distro on my laptop. I edit this file by going to a Terminal as SuperUser and entering the command:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
This will bring up [...]