Tag Archive | "Debian"

Installing freedesktop sound theme in debian

Friday, September 25, 2009

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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 Remove all your old users gconf data related to system sounds Install some needed packages Grab the source for freedesktop sound theme from git.debian.org Unpack and apply some small [...]

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Howto Add time And Date To Your Bash History

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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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 Then reload your .bashrc Now when you run history you should get a output similar to the one below Some other bash history [...]

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Setting up a FTP Server on debian

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Install vsftpd Edit the file /etc/vsftpd.conf and make the following changes: Change Yes to No in the following line Uncomment the following lines by removing the # Finally restart the vsftpd You and any of your users should now be able to FTP the server

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Disabling IPV6 on Debian

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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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 By default you will have the following line Replace it with the following You can now remove all the ipv6 stuff from /etc/hosts and [...]

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Creating aliases in bash

Saturday, May 23, 2009

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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 Then come to the bottom of that file and add your aliases like this: Then Reload your .bashrc file and your aliases should [...]

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