There is an old Linux trick, that works superbly in Windows as well. 1. It is necessary to run notepad or your Windows editor of choice as the Administrator. Right click on notepad in the start menu, and choose: Run as Administrator. Once you do that, navigate to the Windows host file. Don’t know where […]
26
Sep
How to: Easily block access to a website in Windows
Posted by Wayno Published in howto, Linux Networking, Skill Level: Easyno comment
26
Sep
A welcome contributor to this site, and personal friend Loni, is leaving soon for a new job in the big city. Thank you for all your assistance, tutoring, and mentoring. Loni always made me work to find the right answer. Sometimes it was RTFM. But she always pointed me in the right direction. On behalf […]
25
Sep
Oh brother. I am trying to configure the squid proxy server on my Linux box. At over 4,900 lines of code, it reads more like Tolstoy’s epic novel: War and Peace. While I appreciate that every blessed thing I would ever need to know about squid is contained in this configuration file, it makes it […]
13
Sep
Who knew Thunderbird had a built in chat client?
Posted by Wayno Published in Skill Level: Easy, ThunderbirdSurely, NOT I. Discovered by accident! I am using version 15.0. I don’t know if this was in previous versions. Wayno
8
Sep
How to fix audio cd in Linux (unable to open mrl)
Posted by Wayno Published in debian, DVD, howto, Misc. other devices/things, Skill Level: Easy, soundWhen I tried to play an audio cd I recently got from the library in vlc, I got the error: VLC is unable to open the MRL And it told me to see the logs. So I tried dmesg, and niente. Nothing. Yeah that helps! So I went into vlc tools/preferences/Audio and changed the output […]
6
Sep
How to enable internal pdf viewer in Firefox 15
Posted by Wayno Published in Browsers, howto, Skill Level: Easy, Skill Level: MediumFrom Scott Miller: Nice way to enable the internal pdf viewer in Firefox 15 Good bye Acrobat! Wayno
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