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- Installing gcc 4.7.0 from source on Linux Mint 12.After downloading the source tarball for the gcc 4.7.0 release, and unpacking the tarball, enter the source directory: cd gcc-4.7.0/ Then we need to create an empty folder under the gcc-4.7.0/ folder to perform the actual build. mkdir mintbuild Then...
- Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act to be a threat to freedom.The CISPA Bill is a program that will enable more sharing of Internet user`s data to facilitate monitoring of the Internet use of civilians. This under the guise of protecting us from terrorists and keeping suicide bombers off planes. Of course there...
- is Adobe flash relevant anymore?I am using Bing webmaster tools to check the traffic to my website and I have noticed that I had Adobe Flash disabled and the lovely charts and graphs rendered by the web page still display. Google Analytics also works without flash. Annoyingly, Goog...
- Useful old C code of mine. Might be useful for reference.This is a nice little program I wrote ages ago. /* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the L...
- Debian non-free firmware package interfering with USB HID devices.I recently installed the firmware-linux-nonfree package on my Debian Squeeze installation and after a re-boot, the USB keyboard and mouse has stopped working. Even my old PS2 mouse would not work. I have chrooted into my Debian installation from Linu...
- ASIO wanting more powers for surveillance of Internet users.The ASIO spy agency is asking Australian ISPs to log all the data that travels to and fro from a users computer. This would require an astronomical amount of storage space if this is to be taken literally. But they are just interested in fighting ter...
- Useful Linux tips and how to edit the /etc/sudoers file without error.The magic SysRQ key combination is used to reset the Linux system if nothing else will work. To use this key combination, press: Alt+SysRQ then tap these keys in order: R, S, E, I, U, B. This will perform a safe re-boot of your Linux system assuming...
- Thoughts on Linux Mint 13 and Unity.The Linux Mint 13 distribution will have a nicer desktop interface than the Ubuntu distribution that goes without saying; I have just loaded up Linux Mint 12 for a quick look at the Cinnamon desktop and it is very nice to use indeed, the hotspot at t...
- Mandrake Linux 9.2. A nice look back at this old distro.After testing out Mandrake Linux 9.2 in Virtualbox, I am amazed at how fast this Linux distribution is on modern hardware. Sure it is emulated with 512 megabytes of RAM and a 4 gigabyte hard disk in the Virtualbox machine, but 512 megabytes of memory...
- Viewing information about your user on Linux.The groups command displays the list of groups that your user is a member of. [neo@deusexmachina]:~> groups neo cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev bluetooth scanner netdev Using the id command will display a more verbose output that shows the uid a...
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