You will obviously need a modem, in most cases you laptop’s internal software modem will not work, so get an external one. Become root: su – Install the necessary fax software: yum install efax Prepare: chmod 0666 /dev/ttyS0 chmod 777…
True type fonts in Linux
Installing true type fonts for system-wide use in Gnome, KDE, etc.: Become root: su – As root, create the fonts directory: mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf Copy the font files in, cd into the fonts directory: cp [fontfiles] /usr/share/fonts/ttf cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf Make fonts.dir:…
Non-www to www Redirect on Plesk Hosting
Plesk hosting offers you an option of “Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content”. Using it is sometimes bring in some problems when people type in the url starting with www and some ajax scripts are tuned…
Numlock / numpad not working in Gnome / KDE
You accidentally pressed <CTRL><SHIFT><NUMLOCK> and did not notice it. Press it again (you should hear a BEEP). If it does not work, try these solutions.
Backup and Restore Evolution Data
Backup gconftool-2 –shutdown evolution –force-shutdown cd tar -cvzf evolution-backup.tar.gz .evolution .gconf/apps/evolution .gnome2_private/Evolution
Setting Up Samba
Objective: create a rather simplistic samba share for a small office or home network. I started from these articles: http://www.howtoforge.com/samba-fileserver-with-swat-fedora8 http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/sambaserver.shtml
