How to install MS Office 2007 on Crunchbang Linux

1. Install PlayOnLinux and use PlayOnLinux to install Office 2007 2. After installing Office 2007, I have a problem. I cannot enter license key because the textbox doesn’t allow me to type. Then I found a solution from the Internet as follows Go to your Wine’s system32 directory (~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32) and rename riched20.dll and riched32.dll so [...]

Linux Gnome: Add Open Terminal Here / Open Shell Prompt Here Right Click Menu To a File Manager

From: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-gnome-open-terminal-shell-prompt-here/ Question: How do I open a shell prompt or gnome-terminal at the current location while browsing directories and files via nautilus file manager? I’d like to see Open Terminal / Prompt here option added to my right click menu. How do I open command prompt in a single selected directory or otherwise in current directory? Answer: Nautilus can [...]

wget: Download entire websites easy

From: http://linuxreviews.org/quicktips/wget/ wget is a nice tool for downloading resources from the internet. The basic usage is wget url: wget http://linuxreviews.org/ Therefore, wget (manual page) + less (manual page) is all you need to surf the internet. The power of wget is that you may download sites recursive, meaning you also get all pages (and images and other data) linked [...]

Use usb-3g on Linux

I have a ZTE MF100 USB 3G (D-COM 3G) and I’ve established a 3G connection successfully using Sakis3G script on Arch Linux, fast and easily. You could read more information about Sakis3G at http://wiki.sakis3g.org . Sakis3G is a tweaked shell script which is supposed to work out-of-the-box for establishing a 3G connection with any combination of modem or operator. [...]

LXDE: Autostart Apps With .desktop Files

From http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201009/page10.html Under almost every other major desktop environment, it’s a relatively simple task to set up applications to automatically start whenever you start the desktop. However, this is not necessarily so under LXDE. In fact, LXDE does not natively have an autostart directory, by default. Thanks to Neal Brooks, author of the PCLinuxOS-LXDE remaster, PCLinuxOS [...]

Sessions and autostart – couple of ideas

From: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/7893/sessions-and-autostart-couple-of-ideas/ There are a couple of FIXME’s in the xfce statler autostart.sh file, one of them in the openbox version too, and I thought I’d poke around a bit and try and see where some of that stuff was coming from. A couple of tentative suggestions follow, along with some unsolved problems and vague ideas [...]

Conky – xfce – multiple instances

From: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/7066/conky-multiple-instances/ Q: Running Statler Xfce I notice that sometimes when checking xfce-taskmanager, that there are multiple (2-4) instances of Conky running. Is this normal for the app? A: I used to get this with xfce before shifting to #! 0.04.01. It might be a session management issue. If conky is in some kind of autostart script [...]

20 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know

From: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/top-linux-monitoring-tools.html Need to monitor Linux server performance? Try these built-in command and a few add-on tools. Most Linux distributions are equipped with tons of monitoring. These tools provide metrics which can be used to get information about system activities. You can use these tools to find the possible causes of a performance problem. The [...]

Building the VirtualBox Guest Additions kernel modules [FAILED]

From: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27020 First you need to install  this packages for  Fedora  (kernel-PAE-devel  ) yum install kernel-PAE-devel.i686 Now try to install virtualbox additions again.

Cai dat adobe flash player trong fedora chi voi mot dong lenh

su -c ‘yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 \ nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 \ libcurl.i686′