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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Creating aliases in bash

Are you tired off typing out full commands? if so aliases can save you time. They allow you to shorten long commands down into one word. To add a alias edit ~/.bashrc nano ~/.bashrc Then come to the bottom of that file and add your aliases like this: alias rm = "rm -i" alias lightyrestart [...]

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