Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Screendump for Josiah

May 5th, 2005

For Josiah: Here is my KDE desktop on Vector Linux. I no longer use windows and haven’t done so in several months so this is all I have to show. Obviously click on it to make it larger. Might notice there is no alteration whatsoever to my desktop… it merely has a smaller kicker along […]


Accidental Paste

March 20th, 2005

If you’re as stupid as I am… you may have made this mistake several times. Allow me to demonstrate my stupidity: I was copying a directory filled with some files (and in all honesty I am unsure if those files were fonts, conf files or whatever, although what I do remember is that the files […]


Extending your Resolution

February 16th, 2005

I recently made the move to Linux and I have decided to document everything that I found usefull for readers to note, if not they’ll serve me when I forget them. To extend you screen resolution beyond 800×600 when (in KDE) your Desktop Config/ Control Center wont allow you to change up. Open your terminal […]


Logging in as root in terminal

February 16th, 2005

Stupid to most, but the manual doesn’t make this clear enough: In your terminal type su and then enter your root password username@hostname:~$ su Password: This will allow you to install and access files anywhere on your installation; in fact without being root there is little point at all having a terminal screen. Well there […]