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Installing freedesktop sound theme in debian

I Recently found the 'system sound' tab in gnome-sound-property grayed out my work around to this was to install the freedesktop sound theme. Firstly remove gnome-audio sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-audio Remove all your old users gconf data related to system sounds sudo rm -rf /home/*/.gconf/desktop/gnome/sound Install some needed packages sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 libcanberra0 gnome-session-canberra build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev intltool [...]

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Howto Add time And Date To Your Bash History

This comes in very handy if your trying to track back when you had last run something. To enable it just simply add export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S " to your .bashrc file echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S "' >> ~/.bashrc Then reload your .bashrc source ~/.bashrc Now when you run history you should get a output similar to the one [...]

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Setting up a FTP Server on debian

Install vsftpd apt-get install vsftpd Edit the file /etc/vsftpd.conf and make the following changes: Change Yes to No in the following line Anonymous_enable = YES Uncomment the following lines by removing the # #local_enable = YES #write_enable = YES #local_umask = 022 #chroot_local_user = YES Finally restart the vsftpd /etc/init.d/vsftpd You and any of your users should now be able to FTP the server

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Disabling IPV6 on Debian

If you don't use ivp6 for anything and your ISP doesn't support it theres not much of a need to have it enabled. To disable it we need to edit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases nano /etc/modprobe.d/aliases By default you will have the following line alias net-pf-10 ipv6 Replace it with the following alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off You can now remove all the ipv6 [...]

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Pastebin from command line

Have you ever wanted to show data from your command line but couldn't copy it? there is now a solution the script below will allow you to paste the output of commands into the tuts4tech pastebin just copy the script below and save it in /usr/bin/pastebin then you'll be able to do | pastebin e.g [...]

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