Using your blackberry as a 3G (in my case) modem proved to be Incredibly simple. There are five million different methods to do this and many have you compiling stuff and editing text files. I love those sorts of things, but this is much easier. I Wish that I had …

It has come to my attention that this post is out of date. Since Squeeze's release, I have not been able to update it. Your best bet to get compiz working correctly would be to follow to the directions in the Debian wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz

Getting compiz …

Ran into this while running Vmware Workstation under Ubuntu Jaunty. I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session.

This is a result of a zombie 'vmware-vmx' process running. All you need to do is kill the process. This command sends 'signal 9' to the process …

You can find out how much bandwidth your linux machine is using with a simple tool called "bwm-ng". In Debian, install it with

aptitude install bwm-ng

Then, just type 'bwm-ng' in the command line. It will give you something like this:

bwm-ng v0.6 (probing every 5.000s …

If for some reason you have a directory full of RAR archives, and each is split into parts, extracting them individually can be a pain. If you just type "unrar *" into the terminal, you will extract each file multiple times depending on how many "parts" it has. First, install the …

This appears to be related to vmware, to correct: open up the terminal, and type:

setxkbmap.

Thats it.

You can remove or configure the Pidgin pop up's that you see from pidgin. Buddies logging on/off, and in my case, new messages. I didn't want every new message i receive to be blasted up on the desktop OSD. To control what you see there, Pull up your Pidgin …

I have an eee 1000 netbook running Ubuntu Jaunty netbook remix. Installing and configuring Skype was pretty simple:

Add the Medibuntu repository:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get …

The path to it is

BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar.gz\BEWS_12.5.2213_LINUX-UNIX-MAC-SAP_AGENTS.tar\pkgs\Linux\VRTSralus.tar.gz\VRTSralus.tar\VRTSralus-12.5.2213-0.i386.deb

Unfortunately, the Deb package doesn't specify It's dependencies. You need to manually install the libstdc++5 package.

aptitude …

Once you have joined your samba server to your domain and have set up user authentication, creating a share that will allow a group of users to access files is pretty simple.  We need to create a folder that is owned by the root user and the domain group. The …