Gentoo Linux
nvPY on Gentoo
nvPY is a fast, simple to use, no fuss, cross-platform note taking application. One of the big benefits is that all your notes are stored somewhere on the cloud – so you don’t need to […]
Linux System Administration
Create a Self-Signed Certificate for Apache
Contained within an SSL certificate is information that pertains to you and your secured domain. Lets imaging that you have a web hosting company called Spider and the details for which are shown below. Country […]
Gentoo Linux
Shutter with XMonad
For me, Shutter is the best open-source screenshot program available for Linux. When I used Windows, I really liked Snagit – Shutter is a good alternative. Installing Shutter Installing Shutter is straight forward enough. However, […]
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo: Temporarily Configure Networking
This can be useful if your working from a LiveCD or testing the network. Note, “temporary” means it will not survive a reboot! To configure networking, adjust the below command for your own environment. ifconfig […]
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CentOS / Red Hat
Unable to Install mkpasswd on CentOS 6.4
Gentoo Linux
Installing Xorg on Gentoo with the nouveau Driver
I configured my kernel as shown here. That was based on the information found here and here. Check out the resources section at the bottom. Because my kernel is good-to-go, I should just need to […]
CentOS
Unable to Install mkpasswd on CentOS 6.4
I was surprised to find the mkpasswd utility missing from my new installation of CentOS 6.4. Yum has a feature called whatprovides, which can be used to find out which installable package provides some feature, […]
Gentoo Linux
Connect to a NFS Share with Gentoo
Install NFSv4 The below command will install with the default USE flags of ipv6, tpcd and nfsv4. emerge –ask nfs-utils Find NFS Shares If you don’t know or can remember the name of your NFS […]
Linux
The Secure Copy (scp) Command
Secure Copy (scp) is a Linux remote file copy command. It can be used like the Copy (cp) command but supports the secure transfer of file between hosts on a network. The basic synopsis for […]
Linux
Installing XMonad on Gentoo
I have already installed Gentoo with a Kernel supporting NVidia graphics cards using the open-source Nouveau driver. I also have a working installation of Xorg server. Now all that’s left to do now is install […]