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

I just assembled a low budget rig for a muti-purpose home server  with the following specs: AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor (2812.86-MHz K8-class CPU) real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB) DDR3 160GB IDE HDD Recycled 500W PSU CDR-KING Bluetooth Dongle Recycled CPU Casing 2 10/100/1000 Mbps NIC and 1 On-board 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Deep Cool Gamma Blade CPU Cooler I installed Freebsd 9.0-amd64.  One of my goal was to allow my girlfriend to download stuff through torrent.  Why on my machine?

One of the things I find hard in developing a web application is using a library for sending email such as PHPMailer. I find it hard when used to send emails. Another thing I find hard is when sending emails in a localhost webserver. It would also cost me more and would take much time in setting up my own mail server. PHP’s mail function is also very useless in such testing ground. If you are using a gmail account

I dual booted both Windows 7 and Backtrack 5 on my Laptop and a problem starts when I used thunderbird on Backtrack Linux because all my mails are on my windows OS. Based on what I know, Thunderbird creates a profile during my first run of thunderbird on windows. Everything is stored in that folder (accounts, mails, extensions, etc.). In linux, I know that thunderbird does the same thing. What I wanted to do was to use only one profile

I am running backtrack 5 on my machine and just found out that it doesn’t automatically mount my USB flash drive. The steps below solves the problem and will automatically mount USB flash drives on login. The first step would be to open your modules file which needs a root access found at /etc/modules and add at the bottom the following lines: after adding the the two lines restart you system. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook