Category Archives: GNU/Linux

Alright, so I just discovered something today about rtorrent’s min_peers setting and I think everyone that uses rtorrent should know this since that setting could pretty much destroy you as a seeder.

Ok so this is the first time that I’ve encountered this error on a fresh vanilla install of Fedora 10 (I’m not going to upgrade to 11 just yet since I’m going to wait for CentOS 6 which is essentially … Continue reading →

I was installing Webminstats on one of my dedicated servers and I got the following error. Software error: Can't locate RRDs.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . /usr/libexec/webmin /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi … Continue reading →

As I was updating my CentOS 5.2 desktop computer, I noticed something new after the update a couple of days ago. There’s a new wallpaper and it’s damn pretty! Here’s the screenshot.

Well since my desktop is now fubar…I’m just using my laptops now, one has Windows XP and the other one is my GNU/Linux test bed which is currently running OpenSUSE 11.1. I first used GNOME since I was used to … Continue reading →

Today openSUSE launched version 11.1! I waited for it until T-XX something. I haven’t really used openSUSE that much as compared to Fedora. The last one that I’ve used was 10.3 way back and it just didn’t got me like … Continue reading →

I put Fedora 10 since I’m not sure if this will work in all the GNU/Linux distros out there, though I’m sure it will work on most. Anyway if you guys want to know if youre kernel is running at … Continue reading →

If you guys are getting this error on your Webmin log file /var/webmin/miniserv.error here’s how I solved the problem. miniserv.pl started Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is not installed : Can't locate Authen/PAM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/libexec/webmin /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi … Continue reading →

I was looking for a solution on how to display the /usr/bin/uptime command in PHP and I came across this simple yet very useful script for me since sometimes I don’t want to login or anything. So to display your … Continue reading →

If you have a laptop and you use the touchpad a lot then you know that if you have a heavy hand then the tapping option being enabled now (After the YUM update) is a huge pain in the ass. … Continue reading →

Since I was looking to offload some of the resources that the PGN servers were taking to another host other than my dedicated server, I tried looking for free web hosts that allows you to upload files via FTP. And … Continue reading →

Here’s one of the many solutions on how to get your NVIDIA drivers installed in your Fedora 9 x86_64 system using the Livna Repository. su – rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-lib After that, simply restart your system … Continue reading →

I currently have Fedora 9 x86_64 on my laptop and it doesn’t have Adobe Flash properly installed. Here’s what I did to make it work. su – rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm yum install flash-plugin.i386 nspluginwrapper.x86_64 nspluginwrapper.i386 yum install libflashsupport.{i386,x86_64} After that, … Continue reading →

So I recently took the plunged to Fedora 9 (I did it a lot earlier than this post but I was a bit lazy to fix my problems). As you all know, Fedora 9 ships out with the latest and … Continue reading →

As many of you already know, I’m using Fedora 8 for my dedicated servers and for my workstations at home and so I’m faced with either dealing with SELinux or completely disabling it. I choose to deal with it! This … Continue reading →