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?

Joomla is one of the CMS that I like and testing it for vulnerability would be fun using OWAP’s joomscan. Just in case you wanted it on your system you can download it at sourceforge Joomscan is a vulnerability scanner for websites using joomla CMS. To install it on ubuntu you can extract it on a directory that you like like the /opt directory. After extracting make it executable and the db text file which is needed for the update:

One of the server I am using is running ubuntu. I am installing memcached on the server and every time I restart the web server I always have the error “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName”. If you are having the same error then this post is for you. This is how I solved the problem. Open the cli and use the command to edit apache’s config file: sudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf The

One trick to save more time in opening your mostly visited folder is to add it on Nautilus file manager/browser. As shown in the image, I added my www folder to nautilus which is my mostly opened folder. To do this simple trick just follow the steps bellow: Open the folder you want to add to nautilus Press ctrl + D That is it! Hope it helps. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share

I switched my ubuntu Oneiric to bactrack 5 Gnome and try out the new tools I wanted to use. Lately I thought everything will be fine out of the box but noticed that some of the tools I use and explored are not working well. I am using Aspire 4736 and installed backtrack 5 Gnome 64bit. After the installation I had a lot of things to fix and would want to fix them one by one. The first thing I