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Mic Not Working In Google+ Hangout

Posted on July 11, 2011 | No Comments
Tweet Help my Mic and speaker settings are not saving in Google+ Hangout! Don’t worry, according to Google this is a known issue with them. The current alternative way is to save your mic and speaker settings in your Gmail account. So log into your...
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Google+ Hangout Is Not Working

Posted on July 11, 2011 | No Comments
Tweet If you are planning on using Google+ Hangout, you will need to install a video chat plug-in to your browser. For all Google products, we recommend using the Google Chrome browser. This is because all of their programs are integrated nicely on their browser. In order...
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How to accept a self-signed certificates?

Posted on December 17, 2009 | No Comments
Tweet For those that are annoy by the security message whenever you browse into a self-signed certificate site, the only way to do this is to import the certificate into your computer so that next time when you browse to the same site it won’t...
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How to change files owner and group in Linux?

Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
Tweet To change a file’s owner or a group, you will need to use the ‘chown‘ command. Here are some examples: To change a single file owner, type in ‘chown newowner yourfile‘ To change a single file and group name, type in ‘chown newowner:newgroup yourfile‘...
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phpMyAdmin Ubuntu installation

Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
Tweet Today, I was messing around with the installation of phpMyAdmin. I used the normal ‘apt-get’ command for the installation. To my surprise, it didn’t work. The installation installed fine, but when I opened up my browser and try to access the phpMyAdmin page, it...
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Linux: How to search and print command output?

Posted on September 24, 2009 | No Comments
Tweet Well today, I was trying to do a simple test with Ubuntu. .. that is trying to print the output of the ‘ps -aux‘ command. It wasn’t that bad. The way to do this is to pipe it into the ‘LPR’ that is your...
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How to add Alias commands to Startup in Linux?

Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
Tweet 1. Edit the ‘.profile’ file inside your home directory (e.g. /home/yourname ). You can use vi or pico to edit the file. My personal favorite is pico. Easiler to navigate. e.g. pico /home/yourname/.profile 2. Add your alias commands to the end of the file...
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How to enable SSH in Ubuntu?

Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
Tweet So, you want to be able to remotely connect into your ubuntu server? you can. One way to do this is to enable the SSH service on the server. The most common ssh out there is OpenSSH. So the following instruction is for enabling...
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How to install VMWare tools in Ubuntu?

Posted on September 17, 2009 | No Comments
Tweet First, you would need to click on the 'Install VMWare Tools' in VMware. Now, go to the Ubuntu machine and extra the VMwareTools-*.tar.gz file to a temp directory. Open up the terminal windows in Ubuntu (Application->Accessories->Terminal) and change to the directory where you extracted...
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Solaris Commands Quicksheet

Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
Tweet Here’s a nice find I found on the web which have list out most of the useful Solaris commands. Click link to download pdf Tweet
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