I had some problems installing ssmtp on centos 6.3 64 bit because most of the posts are giving out the wrong RPM link. So I came across a blog that gave an existing link rpm for fedora where ssmtp exists. So below are the steps I did to install ssmtp over CentOS: The Download link for 64 bit CentOS 6: http://ftp.astral.ro/mirrors/fedora/pub/epel/6/x86_64/ Verify if hxxp://astral.ro is a legit mirror: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/ Add the rpm using the command: $ wget http://ftp.astral.ro/mirrors/fedora/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm $ rpm

Steps on how to edit Linux Mint’s Cinnamon Menu: Right click on the menu as show on the image above Select Edit Menu Do your thing Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

I have some problems in controlling my laptop’s brightness on Linux Mint 13. My laptop’s specification is found on this page. Just a summary I am using NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 2GB Dedicated VRAM. Here are the steps I followed to get control on my laptop’s brightness. Open the terminal Edit grub (sudo nano /etc/default/grub), Around the 11th line, there will be something like: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”. Change it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor” Save the file Update your grub (sudo update-grub2)

Playing mp4 files over the internet on windows OS is easy since quicktime plugin is supported and easily accessible.  To play mp4 files in linux you can use VLC which commonly installed by default on new versions of Linux OS such as ubuntu and linux mint.  Below is an illustration on how to play/open mp4 files over the internet. 1. Go to Media Menu > Open Network Stream 2.  Enter the url you want to open and click play to start

From Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I switched to Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon because of some personal reasons. Now, I have a fully functional Linux mint on my Aspire 4755G with the following specifications. *-cpu description: CPU product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz vendor: Intel Corp. version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz size: 800MHz capacity: 800MHz width: 64 bits clock: 100MHz  *-memory description: System Memory size: 8GiB *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics

 image from www.liberiangeek.net To disable GDM on ubuntu and use only the text based login, follow the steps below: Edit /etc/default/grub Comment out GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” Add the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”text” Save Grub and update grub using sudo update-grub2 Below is a snapshot of grub conf with GDM disabled on start-up Reference: http://askubuntu.com/questions/76543/how-do-i-disable-gdm-and-graphical-user-selection Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

image from http://swain.webframe.org/tshirts/ To instantly change your Network interface card’s (NIC) MAC Address or Physical Address on a freeBSD system the command to use is: where rl0 is the NIC whose Physical address will be changed.  This will change back to its original Physical Address when the system reboots. To change the Physical Address of rl0 every time the system boots you need to open rc.conf (/etc/rc.conf) and add the following lines: Good luck! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend