I wrote a little script to help me quickly set up a new Mint 12 install the way I like it and to fix a couple random annoying issues. Enjoy: Script name is fixmint.sh #!/bin/bash clear # Test for UID=0 if [ “$(echo $UID)” != “0” ] then echo “You must be superuser to run […]
Found out a couple days ago that there is a problem with the PPA for handbrake with MINT 12 and Ubuntu 11.10 (and probably others as well). There is an easy workaround for it though. That is to use the snapshots ppa instead: apt-add-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-snapshots apt-get update apt-get install handbrake-gtk handbrake-cli
I had a friend a few weeks ago who asked me for help getting the Transmission bittorrent client working on CentOS 6. I took these notes then and am sharing them now. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://geekery.altervista.org/geekery-el6.repo NOTE: RHEL/CentOS 6 x86_64 users have to replace $arch with $basearch in the repo file yum install transmission transmission-gtk
I love love RHEL and CentOS on servers but surprisingly, CentOS 6 makes a nice desktop as well! Here are some notes I took getting things going the way I like on my CentOS laptop. Where I work, if you push your machine name to DHCP, it will register with DNS as well. This is […]
OK, so it’s no secret I am a Mint addict. I just *had* to install Mint 12 as soon as I could, so I grabbed and installed the RC as soon as I could. What I would like to review here are my impressions after using Mint 12 for a while. First, let me say […]