This is just a simple Quick tip on how to Change A File or Folders Ownership.
Open the Terminal and go Root. su -
password:
type in: chown the-username-name /location-of-files-or-folders
For group Ownership
type in: chgrp groupname /location-of-files-or-folders
Its that simple.
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What is Favicon - is an icon associated with a particular website or web page. This is also known as website icon and page icon. Still not sure what I’m talking about? Well let me explain. You know when you bookmark a page and it shows a picture or if you look next to the URL after you go to a site there is a picture. This is what it is. This is a real simple thing to do, to give your site an icon.
First step is to take the Photo or picture you want and convert it. The simple way to go this is going HERE.
Note - when I created mine I had issuse with the 32×32 size. So I just did the 16×16 and had no Issues.
Also make sure you name it favicon.ico
After you create an Favicon you need to place it into your root directory. Root directory is usually where you homepage is at (index.html).
Now you need to add this line to your Header befor you get to the <body> Tag.
This is a easy How to on setting up a basic web sever with Apache, Mysql, and PHP. What is is this you ask? Well lets go over it,
Apache - Is free web server software to get you site up and running. The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, feature full, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
Mysql - Is software that delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PHP - is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
If your like me, you like to have some cool backgrounds to your system. So I looked around the Internet to find some of the best places to download free ones. Most of the great site have you sign up a pay a fee. I don’t agree on that. Not If you are using them for non business use. But that’s just my opinion. So here are a few of my favorites.
With My F8 running great I decided to try another linux distributor. Mandriva Spring 2008 was my victim. So I went to there download page http://mandriva.com/en/download/free and began my download. As it was downloading I decided to check out there forum site at http://forum.mandriva.com/to see how to get of my favorite programs up and running and if there were issues with them. Ahhhh, the download was done. I opened up the Rom and put a blank disk in and stared burning the disk. After that was done I
rebooted and started up from cd. I then proceeded to do a basic install. The instsall ran smooth thru the complete operation. I filled out my info and set up my passwords and I was at my new desktop. Now that I was here I started to explore and was really impress with the whole Control center layout. They really made things easy for people. As I was making sure everything was installed ok I headed right over to the hardware tab in the control center and turned on compiz fusion under 3d effects. It installed some software and my basic effect were running. I then went back to the software management tab and went to install software to to add my compiz fusion extras. Piece of cake. I was Impress. Now when I was searching the forums I found how to install easy URPMI Repo. After that was set up went looking for my favorit media players and mp3 players. I installed everything and was running great. All my media were playing and my burning software was running great. I was real happy with the way everything went. If I had to recommand an easy to set up Linux for someone that wanted to try Linux for the first time this would be one of my top one to point someone to. I am a Fedora fan and love it, but not to sure its a great one to recommand to someone who has never touched Linux before. Great job to the Mandriva Team.
I am writing this and will probably will never here the end of it. But yes this is for the user who still use windows. Now I have to have duel boot for some of my Astronomy software but that’s all it really used it for.
Now I did test this out and I must say that It wasn’t so bad but it did have some lag issues on a couple of these programs. So lets get to it.
RocketDock: is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. There are addons that will update Icons, Skins, Docklets and more.
Looking for a Linux Portable Laptop? Here is a great little friend to have. They come in a models and a bunch of colors. Some of them also come with an integrated camera. You can see the chart at the bottom.
Amazon Writes:
Get the power of a full-sized laptop in the ultra-compact ASUS Eee PC 4G, which offers a full QWERTY keyboard, 7-inch screen, and preinstalled Linux operating system. (This laptop is also compatible with the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.) You’ll be able to stay connected to email and the Internet easily thanks to the Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g), and communicate via video chat and VoIP with the Webcam integrated into the display’s bezel. Because it uses flash memory instead of a hard drive (with 4 GB of storage), the Eee PC is optimal for weathering rough handling and sharing space in overstuffed bags.
By now you must have seen some rpm commands. But do you know what they do or what you can do with them. Well Let me show you a few basic commands out there for you.
Install
rpm -i (name of package) rpm -i http://(website address of rpm) rpm -i ftp://(address of rpm) These are the simple install commands.
Now If you seen this, This is the same command with some added detail.
rpm -ivh
The v adds the verbose command and the h adds the display progress command. Continue Reading »
Like there isn’t already enough Web Browsers out there. But I had to take it for a test drive.
Lets start by saying there website is very easy to Nav Thru and Its very user friendly. Opera has been around fo awhile now but more recently came out for Linux. So let’s see what they say about there product.
Why Opera? Safe, secure, powerful and fully customizable, the Opera Web browser is faster and more secure than other browsers available on the market. Opera delivers robust security and a far-richer feature set than any other Web browser and it’s free.
Now keep in mind there talking about Ver. 9.27, So lets get on with the show. In verison 9 they had added allot to it. Lets list some of the Features.
This is a Quick little trick to have Network Manger stop asking for your Gnome keyring. This will allow you to turn on your machine and not have to enter you keyring every time. I know to me that was a annoying pop-up. To make this work you will need to change your keyring password to match your login password. (Please Read the Agreement at bottom)
First we will delete the old password by removing it.
rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default* Continue Reading »
Ever wonder how other’s have there Terminal Window transparent? Well this will be a quick how to for it.
This is very simple to do and its more eye candy for you. This was done in Gnome with F9 but will work with others and KDE. (Please Read Agreement at bottom).
First we need to open up the Terminal. Applications->System tools->Terminal
