How to Change the Default Web Browser in Ubuntu
This guide will show you two different ways to change your default web browser in Ubuntu Linux – via the command line or using Ubuntu Settings. …
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How to monitor MySQL in real-time with mytop
This short guide will explain how to use a free command line utility to monitor a MySQL database in real-time. …
How to resolve the ‘/bin/rm: Argument list too long’ error
This brief guide explains how to fix the “/bin/rm: Argument list too long” error that sometimes pops up while trying to delete files or folders in Linux. …
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Get Started Using the Vim Text Editor
This guide will get you started using Vim, one of the most powerful and popular command line text editors around. …
How to setup Virtual Hosts in Apache
This guide will explain what virtual hosts are and how to set them up using Apache on an Ubuntu Linux machine. …
How to Reset a Lost MySQL Root Password
This short but detailed guide will explain how to reset your lost or forgotten MySQL root password using either Windows or Linux. …
How to use your Nokia N95 as a Wireless Webcam
SmartCam turns a Symbian Series 60 phone with bluetooth and camera into a webcam ready to use with your PC. It is open source software, licensed under the GPLv2 and will run on Linux or Windows. There are commercial applications that will do the same thing, but I believe in using and supporting free, open source software whenever possible. …
How to install applications on your N95 from a local web server
After writing more than a dozen of these tutorials and installing and removing so many different applications, I thought to myself, there has got to be a faster way. WiFi is far faster than Bluetooth and far more convenient than digging for a USB data cable. I have a computer running Linux, I have a wireless network, and the N95 connects via WiFi so why not just run Apache on my computer and point the N95 at a directory on the computer? …
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Generating an RSA Key Pair for Use with PuTTY on the N95
As I started my tutorial on adding fonts to PuTTY on the N95, I very quickly decided that having to enter a user name and password every time I logged in was taking too long. So I generated an RSA key pair with a blank pass phrase just to save time. Don’t worry, of course I deleted the key pair as soon as I was finished. The last thing I need is to lose my phone and have some stranger logging into my server!
Note: this procedure is not specific to just the N95, nor is it only specific to Linux. I use Linux in my examples because I’m not a Windows user. The procedure described below on how to generate RSA keys can be adapted to puttygen.exe on Windows. …
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How to convert and watch DivX movies on the Nokia N95
If you like watching movies, you can take them with you and watch them on your N95. One easy way to do it is to convert your movies to a format that DivX Mobile will play. In this tutorial I use mencoder on Linux to convert a movie to XviD. XviD is an open source MPEG-4 video codec. The DivX player plays XviD files very well. I will also provide links to the Windows and Mac DivX Mobile bundles which include a special version of the DivX Converter for Mobile. …
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An Introduction to the macOS Terminal
Straight from the horse’s mouth – Apple says this of the macOS Terminal:
UNIX users will feel at home in Darwin, the robust BSD environment that underlies Mac OS X. That environment is accessible at any time from the Terminal application.
OK, that’s nice and all, but what about us non-UNIX users? …