Open up a Super User Terminal Mode (from the Applications menu | System Tools | Terminal Mode – Super User)
First, we need to add the repository where all the cool backports and upgrades are. At the command prompt, type:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
and add this line at the bottom:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
To save, use CTRL [...]

First download any True Type Font to your Desktop. If you download a zip file, use ARK to unzip/extract it. ARK is usually at Applications | Accessories. After extraction, you will have a file with the extension .ttf
If your extraction left you with file(s) that have multiple underscores or spaces, right-click the file choose Rename. [...]

Ok, this morning I was reading about KompoZer, a WYSIWYG web page editor for Linux. I”m currently using Quanta, but it’s all manual entering of HTML/PHP/etc. KompoZer Looked promising, with a Dreamweaver style interface, so I went into my Synaptic package manager and searched for it. Nadda. Not in my list of available apps from [...]

Very often I find that my cell phone photos have a grey wash to them or they just look flat in color. So, I use the Levels adjustment tool in Gimp to fix them. There’s lots of discussion about what levels are and what they do, etc. but I tend to focus on the practical. [...]

I’m using the opensource Gimp to manipulate and edit my photos these days, and thought I’d put together a short tutorial on how to crop photos. I’m using version 2.4.7 but any 2* version should look the same as my screenshots. Follow the link above to get the latest Gimp download, just click on the [...]

I’ve been testing all the various cd ripper packages on my Debian Lenny Distro of Linux but none of them would rip to mp3’s. They would rip ok to OGG files, but I can’t play those on my cellphone’s mp3 player. As you know from my other tutorial, that it’s a breeze to load your [...]

Ever wanted to see what your network traffic is doing and if there are any background transmissions slowing down your internet? But you don’t want to be a network admin to be able to figure out the stats from log files and traceroutes, right! Well, check this out – Etherape, a visual network traffic tool [...]

In the current release of Cinelerra, the Linux Video editing tool, version 2.1 CV, you may get the error when starting up the program:
The following errors occurred:
void MWindow::init_shm0: WARNING:/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax is 0×2000000, which is too low.
Before running Cinelerra do the following as root:
echo “0×7fffffff”>/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
Sure, you can run over to Terminal as Root and enter that [...]

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 [...]