Month: February 2017

How to install KDE 4 on Fedora 25 easily.

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Installing the KDE 4 desktop on Fedora 25 is very easy. There are package groups that allow installation of desktop environments. This is how to install the KDE desktop environment group. [root@localhost jason]# dnf install @kde-desktop-environment[root@localhost jason]# dnf install @kde-desktop-environment This command will fetch and install KDE 4 on Fedora. Then install the KDM desktop … Read more

New exoplanets discovered 39 light years from Earth.

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New exoplanets have been discovered 39 light years from Earth. This is 3.689685e+14 kilometers. This is apparently a system with seven planets. There is such a big fuss about the possibility of life here, but the distance is massive. Traveling at 200,000,000 miles per hour, it would take 130 years to reach the system. If … Read more

How to see whether a command is a executable or a shell builtin.

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The type command for bash will tell you whether a command is a shell built-in or an executable on it`s own. This is very simple to use. This example shows how it works. jason@DESKTOP-G1QN8C6:~$ type -a echo echo is a shell builtin echo is /bin/echojason@DESKTOP-G1QN8C6:~$ type -a echo echo is a shell builtin echo is … Read more

Australia does not need an NBN network for faster network speeds?

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The head of the NBN company has claimed that Australians would not even need or use super fast NBN download speeds, even if it was offered for free. This is despite the massive adoption of online gaming and Netflix video streaming. As well as downloading 10 gigabyte game patches. Steam uses a lot of bandwidth … Read more

Getting started with Ubuntu 17.04 and setting up your system.

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Getting started with the Ubuntu Linux distribution Getting started with Ubuntu is a lot of fun, this post will show you how to get setup after installation of the new Ubuntu 17.04 distribution. Download a copy of Ubuntu Kylin 17.04 here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/daily-live/current/. After the installation of Ubuntu Kylin, I could not get the networking to … Read more

How to embed the output of a command into a bash script.

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Embedding the output of a command into a bash shell script is quite easy. Here is an example. echo "Hello $(whoami), the date is $(date -u). Have a nice day"echo "Hello $(whoami), the date is $(date -u). Have a nice day" This is the output this will give you. ┌─[jason@neo]─[~] └──╼ $echo "Hello $(whoami), the … Read more

How to play a DVD on Fedora 25 with libdvdcss.

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How to enable encrypted DVD playback on Fedora 25 Playing a DVD on Fedora 25 is not too difficult. I already had the extra repositories added to enable multimedia playback support, but I could not play a DVD. So I downloaded the libdvdcss library. http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.4.0/. Then I built and installed it. darkstar% tar -xvf libdvdcss-1.4.0.tar.bz2darkstar% … Read more

Why you should secure your WIFI access point. This is important.

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Computer security in the modern world depends upon many factors. One of them is the security of your wireless access point. Some people have access points that have a weak password. This means that a malicious computer user with a Linux machine running aircrack can access your WIFI by cracking the passphrase and then accessing … Read more

How to enable sudo on your Linux system with the visudo command.

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The visudo command for Linux allows a user to edit the sudoers file and change permissions for users on the system. Open the sudoers file this way. NEVER edit it with a standard text editor. ┌─[jason@neo]─[~] └──╼ $su Password: root@neo:/home/jason# visudo┌─[jason@neo]─[~] └──╼ $su Password: root@neo:/home/jason# visudo This is the result of my editing. I have … Read more