A guide to quickly changing your X11 mouse cursor theme without using a full desktop environment. Intended for users of stand-alone window managers.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

The gOS distribution is based on the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution. It uses the Enlightenment 17 window manager instead of the usual GNOME or KDE desktops, allowing for lower memory and speed requirements.

Backerupper is a simple GUI utility program to make scheduled backups of specified directories over a network. It is not intended for full system backup, but just to make archive copies of a user’s personal data.

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.

Instruction guide with two modes, online and offline, for setting up Airgo-based Pre-N wireless cards. In particular the following:

• Belkin F5D8010
• Linksys WPC511GX
• Netgear WGM511
• Buffalo WLI-CB-G108
• AeroGuard AGN1023PC
• Planex CQW-NS108AG
• Planex CQW-NS108G
• Samsung X20 Laptop
• GemTek WPCO-131G
• Corega CG-WLCB108GM

This is a thorough guide to installation of Ubuntu using the alternate disc, including a section on setting up separate partitions for /home.

i have been using a php-based program called eticket to keep track of all my customer’s helpdesk requests for my consulting business for awhile now. it’s really easy to setup and use, so i thought i’ll post my setup steps to help anyone else out.

first download the latest version of eticket from the sourceforge website, then move the file to your server via ftp, ssh, etc… and unzip the archive to an appropriate directory.

create a mysql database and assign a user for the database.

mysql -u root -p

create database eticket;

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has new boot option "only-ubiquity" which does not load the Gnome desktop and only starts Ubiquity installer on default Ubuntu background. I decided to try this option on one COMPAQ Desktop PC with 128 MB RAM.

Quick and easy guide to getting the most out of the Vim text editor.

I’d like to contribute 10 things to avoid and 10 things you can do if you want to increase the chances of getting good results from bug reporting (meaning a fix or solution). Some of them come from the Best Bug Reporting Practices wiki page.

The traditional Unix environment is a CLI (command line interface), where you type commands to tell the computer what to do. That is faster and more powerful, but requires finding out what the commands are." -- from man intro(1)

This is a simple, straightforward guide to help users install the latest stable version of Pekwm, a fast and flexible window manager. It covers building from source and basic Pekwm configuration, and contains links to more resources.

A detailed guide to using the powerful VI/Vim text editor. While Vim is a favorite of many experienced power users, it can look very intimidating to new users. This guide will help smooth out the learning curve.

A script, and instructions for using it, that make some aspects of installing apps on a non-networked Ubuntu machine easier.

Detailed tutorial on using readahead to reduce boot time.

Quick and easy way to repair a corrupted .mozilla profile, without losing your bookmarks.

This document is a step by step guide for configuring Ubuntu 7.10 as a Samba Domain Controller with an LDAP backend (OpenLDAP). The point is to configure a server that can be comparable, from a central authentication point of view, to a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller. The end result will be a server with an LDAP directory for storing user, group, and computer accounts. A Windows XP Professional SP2 workstation will be able to join the domain once properly configured. Please note that you do not have a fully comparable Windows domain controller at this time.

Use a Wii remote as a mouse.

x11vnc is a VNC server that shares your physical X session. These instructions are designed for Ubuntu and its sister projects, but will also work for other GNU/Linux distributions with minor changes (such as using su rather than sudo).

Explains the differences between Ubuntu and other popular Linux distros, with instructions detailing how to make Ubuntu behave more like what you may be accustomed to.

Step by step guide to using rsync as an automated backup utility.

An introduction to the way that security works in GNU/Linux systems, geared toward those with a background in Windows security concerns.

This is a post-install procedure

This section provides a list of documents intended to help you to view and edit your photos on Ubuntu.

Ubuntu strives to make all software that meets the licensing terms in the [WWW] Ubuntu License Policy available. However patent and copyright restrictions complicate free operating systems distributing software to support proprietary formats.

Ubuntu's commitment to only include completely free software by default means that proprietary media formats are not configured 'out of the box'.

Directions for reinstalling GRUB using the Ubuntu live installation disk.

Malfunctioning hardware can cause system instability which may be mistaken for software bugs.

This guide shows several ways in which you can set a desktop background or wallpaper in stand-alone window managers like Openbox, Fluxbox and IceWM. Several applications and methods are explained -- from setting a single image or solid colour, to tinted images, several images and/or text, or rotating wallpapers.