Use Sysvconfig As A GUI For Managing Linux Start Up Services From The Command Line

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

As the title of this post suggests, Sysvconfig is a useful program for managing start up services (on boot) on Linux.   Sysvconfig is useful for configuring init scripts -ie: the scripts that start services at boot (or not) where you can enable or disable services that autostart and more.

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Try The Opera Web Browser On Ubuntu Linux Because It Has Great Ubuntu Support

Friday, September 25th, 2009

When you get Ubuntu you get firefox as a default web browser and if somehow you don’t – perhaps if you are using a varied flavor of Ubuntu you can get it in a few seconds using apt or your favorite package management program.

But… How about when you go to the Firefox website to download a copy of Firefox?  This is the screen you will get…

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KDE: Use KLinkStatus (KDEWebDev) To Spider A Site To Check For Broken Links

Friday, September 25th, 2009

KLinkStatus is a handy web spider program is part of the KDEWebDev suite of applications.  KDELinkStatus can recursively follow and check links (both internal and external) in a web site.

Once the spidering is completed you can then export the results as an HTML report so that broken links can easily be spotted and then fixed.

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Download YouTube Videos On Linux

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

There are a few programs available for downloading YouTube videos on Linux.  Here is a quick exploration of two of them – “youtube-dl” and “clive”.

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Malay language Software / Tools for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Some Malay language tools for KDE. Useful for anyone wanting to use Kubuntu in Malay or work with the Malay language…

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Euro Currency Converter for KDE keurocalc

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

keurocalc is a quick and easy currency converter / calculator for Linux computers using KDE. keurocalc is available in 2 flavors.

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Tip: List, View And Edit KDE Keyboard Shortcuts

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Here is yet another really easy and quick tip for KDE.  There are loads of keyboard shortcuts ready to use right away and to view / edit them all you have to do is go to System Settings under the K Menu and then go for the keyboard icon.  The windo that appears will look like the one in the screen shot to the left.

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KDE4 – Set Konqueror As Default File Manager Instead Of Dolphin

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

This is easy tip.  In KDE4 the default file manager is Dolphin however if like many people you prefer Konqueror (which was the default in KDE 3.x) you can make Konqueror the default by doing the following:

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Marble Desktop Globe For KDE 4

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Google Earth may be the the leader in the field of interactive mapping, especially with Satellite map data but there are some other alternatives.  I’m currently testing out the free open source Marble application.

Marble currently comes in two flavours for Linux, one is a basic version for users who do not have the latest KDE 4 and the other has a few more features.  The main difference between the two verisons is that the KDE 4 version has a few additional settings (see screenshot).

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Tutorial: Edit GRUB Boot Loader Configuration To Set Default Linux Kernel

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

How do you change the default Linux kernel version loaded by GRUB at boot? Want to use a different Kernel or OS at boot?

Firstly simply open the GRUB configuration file located at /boot/grub/menu.lst as root.

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