Posts in category Tips

Install the Latest Kernel in PCLinuxO...

Dec17
2008 Written by devnet

Do you run PCLinuxOS 2007 or Minime 2008 and would you like to take advantage of the latest kernel for PCLinuxOS? You can do this by enabling the ‘testing’ portion of the repository. Read about Repository Control in PCLinuxOS You’ll be looking for the ‘sections’ blank when viewing repository details and you̵ [...]

Host Your Own Domain and Webserver

Dec13
2008 Written by devnet

This article is from 2006! The information here may not be the most current. You can visit an updated version here! Doesn’t sound like anything new right? Well, some people may not know of this method. Normally, to host your own webpage you would need to spend around 7 bucks to purchase a domain. Next you would need a hosting plan t [...]

Find Files & Directories Not Vis...

Nov25
2008 Written by devnet

I wanted a quick way to be able to find out what files weren’t visible to others (and therefore, not visible to website visitors). Messing with arguments and the file command, you can do the following: find -type f ! -perm -444 This locates all files not visible to ‘others’ in the current directory. You can apply this to d [...]

Read & Display Single Line of a ...

Nov18
2008 Written by devnet

Sometimes when I’m troubleshooting a PHP error and a function is called in the debugger that gives me a line number of a file to look at, I want to know what that line says without opening up the file. Using the command line, you can accomplish this in the following way: head -n 96 filename.php | tail -n 1 This allows you to quickly di [...]

Customizing PCLinuxOS 2008 Minime

Oct17
2008 Written by devnet

Build Your Own PCLOS So, HowtoForge has a perfect desktop for PCLinuxOS 2007…how about something similar for 2008 MiniMe? I won’t go into near as much detail as they do there but I’ll go over how I get my desktop up and rolling after a fresh install of PCLinuxOS Minime 2008. MiniMe is the lesser known offspring of PCLinux [...]

Install GCC on ClarkConnect

Oct12
2008 Written by devnet

Install GCC on ClarkConnect This is a pretty easy thing to do, but it seems many people come to Yet Another Linux Blog searching for exactly how to do this. ClarkConnect does not come with GCC installed by default. If you download software and attempt to compile it (using ./configure, make, make install) it will complain: configure: error: [...]