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May

de-smurfing youtube (or why are all the people on youtube blue?)

Posted by Wayno  Published in Browsers, debian, howto, loni, Skill Level: Medium, video

It’s a Blue World. Thanks to this awesome flashplayer bug! I am running 64 bit Debian Squeeze. And well, when I went to watch an episode of hak5 I had smurf vision! Hey guys. I didn’t know you drank too much blueberry juice. Who knew? Since Adobe WILL NOT fix this (apparently ever, if you [...]

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8

May

Monzy kill -9 (Nerdcore)

Posted by Wayno  Published in Uncategorized

Monzy performs kill -9 at Stanford University. From my friend Scott M. at scottlinux This video is Rated “R” — (Language) so if your sensitive, don’t watch. Kill Dash Nine Lyrics by Monzy Wayno

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6

May

Finding and installing 64 bit Firefox and Thunderbird for Debian

Posted by Wayno  Published in Browsers, debian, howto, Joe, loni, Skill Level: Medium, Thunderbird

Let’s face it. Rebranded software (Icedove for Thunderbird and Iceweasel for Firefox) on Debian works, but they are UBER old. And if you are trying to get 64 bit versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. Good luck! IceWeasel (rebranded Firefox Version 3!) is pre-installed. However Icedove does NOT come pre-installed. The programmes on the mozilla site, [...]

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24

Apr

Allowing more then one user to start an X session (pam authentication)

Posted by Wayno  Published in debian, howto, Skill Level: Easy

I had an issue, where I needed to let someone else login to my computer, and peek over my shoulder. But when they tried to start an x11vnc session, they of course got the “PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server” error message. It’s an easy fix, that I found on linuxquestions.org Read this entry [...]

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12

Apr

First Look: Ubuntu 12.04 lts

Posted by Wayno  Published in debian, gnome, Skill Level: Medium

I installed the Ubuntu 12.04 beta. Very slow login. Over 2 minutes. There is no way to adjust mouse sensitivity. (even with mouse adjusted as low as it will go, it’s far too fast.) I tried the gnome-fallback (gnome-panel). Unity was way way too confusing. I will try KDE before totally abandoning Ubuntu, (a 584 [...]

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31

Mar

Gnome classic (fallback) in Ubuntu 12.04

Posted by Wayno  Published in gnome, Skill Level: Medium

Like Ubuntu, but just not convinced that Gnome 3 or Unity is the next greatest thing since sliced bread? Original article here 1. Simply install the gnome panel: sudo apt-get install gnome-panel Logout, choose gnome at login time, and you are done. Wayno

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18

Mar

Cat listening to Music

Posted by Wayno  Published in Audio, Music, Skill Level: Easy, sound

Totally unrelated to Linux.

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3

Mar

How to send broadcast messages to all users in Windows or Linux

Posted by Wayno  Published in howto, Skill Level: Easy

Who knew? For Windows use this method. Of course in Linux Environment — it’s even simpler: 1. At a terminal window type: wall 2. Type in your message 3. End it with the End-of-file character (ctrl+d) output looks like: n@H:~$ wall this is a test message (NOTE: I entered ctrl+d to end the message) Broadcast [...]

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28

Feb

Cox Communications “quality challenged” internet connection (of Cats and Cox)

Posted by Wayno  Published in Misc. other devices/things, Skill Level: Medium

NOTE: THIS LETTER HAS NOT BEEN SENT, IN HOPE OF RESOLVING THIS ON A LOCAL LEVEL. ————- Patrick J. Esser, President Cox Communications 1400 Lake Hearn Drive Atlanta, Georgia 30319 The Hermitage Cat Shelter is dedicated to the shelter, protection, and care of homeless cats, especially those that are often not considered adoptable by other [...]

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28

Feb

Why RTFM is important

Posted by Wayno  Published in Uncategorized

Why RTFM is important! The new power supply I got today does NOT have the 4 pin connector I need. Third time’s a charm? And the new VOM doesn’t work either. 0 for 2 today. Wayno

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