This tutorial will show you how to paste in plain text in Pidgin (without formatting the text). It works in my Ubuntu (with Gnome). There are few simple steps. 1st. Open the file /usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. NOTE: Keep in mind that if you are using different theme you should change Default with the theme name you are currently […]
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How to use Anchor in SMF – Simple Machine Forums
Unfortunately there is no icon for anchors in SMF 1.1.x. However all version after 1.1.3 supports anchors by default. Here is how to use it. Creating the link: [iurl=#clicl_me]Click Me[/iurl] Defining the location: [anchor=click_me]Destination[/anchor] Not sure how it is in SMF 2 but in 1.1.x works just great. Good luck!
How to check the Ubuntu version
This is probably the shortest tutorial ever 🙂 It’s quite simple to check the version. Executing a single command: cat /etc/issue Good luck!
Gentoo distribution upgrade
Usually the Gentoo distribution is being upgraded by two simple emerge commands. Emerge is part of Portage which is the packet system of Gentoo. The commands to upgrade your Gentoo system are: user@GentooBox ~# emerge –sync This will sync your local machine with the gentoo server that you have set in /etc/make.conf user@GentooBox ~# emerge […]
Howto make Apache case-insensitive
As we all know the *nix platforms are case sensitive and this is causing some issues some times. It’s the same thing with apache. However there is a cure so no worries 🙂 In order to make your apache case-insensitive you need to have root access to the box. At least you need sudo. Firstly […]
Switches available in RSYNC
Options Summary Here is a short summary of the options available in rsync. Please refer to the detailed options below for a complete description. -v, –verbose increase verbosity -q, –quiet decrease verbosity -c, –checksum always checksum -a, –archive archive mode -r, –recursive recurse into directories -R, –relative use relative path names -b, –backup make backups […]
Installing Apache, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu Linux
Firstly we will need to open console terminal and write the following User@TheUbuntuBox ~# sudo apt-get install apache2 autoconf automake1.4 autotools-dev libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php-pear php5-ldap php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-pspell php5-gd autoconf automake1.4 autotools-dev libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server We just installed Apache2, MySQL Server and PHP5. Now we […]
How to use PuTTy for SSH
This is a step by step guide on how to use PuTTy to for SSH. Firstly you need to download the PuTTy software. You can download it from here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Once you have downloaded the PuTTy program you can open it you will see window like that: Then you should put the hostname or IP […]