The VLC player is rumoured to be one of the best players to day for playing many different formats including mts and m2ts proprietary SONY formats. (Which just so happens to be the format of my Camcorder movies)  This is the way my camcorder has been saving them in and to date, there are [...]

PROBLEM
A little tidbit of Windows knowledge.  When highlighting a section of a Microsoft Word document and pressing the delete key, nothing happens.  No errors or messages at all.  Try this to fix it…
SOLUTION

PROBLEM
On Linux, you receive this error when trying to open up links from inside Thunderbird emails:

Error showing url: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.5/firefox" (No such file or directory)

SOLUTION

Hashes are a certainly very important part of any language.  If you're not used to hashes, you may not see their potential at first.  However, having used them in several languages now, hashes always ended up reducing my code significantly especially when only complex solutions would only do otherwise.  However, bash or ksh for [...]

In the not so distant past, there has been an explosion of ISP's on the web which caused the only thing all of them could: dirt cheap hosting.  In fact, the web is virtually flooded with ISP's offering everything imaginable under the sun and space has literally become a door prize.   But what really [...]

PROBLEM
Following some recent upgrades to my distro the Konsole window cursor was always ahead of the text that was typed.  The problem was compounded when lines of text were longer though this problem wasn't present in other terminal applications.  This really looked horrible using vim, as you can probably imagine.  As you can see [...]

PROBLEM
With the latest rollout of adobe / pdf software to the latest linux distributions, there was a rather basic bug introduced causing an infinite number of ‘expr: syntax error” messages being displayed. Fortunately this was a simple script bug frmo the provider that thankfully can be fixed by anyone. The error pops up [...]

Because Fedora 9, like any new software, had a number of issues, logging into it and using it didn’t prove usefull at all having been used to my own configuration in KDE 3.X.  So much so I initially wasn’t too happy  upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 entirely.  That is until I started [...]

If you have MailScanner running in the background, one issue you can run into is duplicate emails.  Try the below to see if it fixes your issue:
PROBLEM
Receiving duplicate or repeating e-mails in your inbox.
SOLUTION

Linux OS does a superb job of handling sound.  Since early on it will even be configured out of the box.  Unfortunately, keeping it that way is an entirely separate matter.  Especially when going through multiple upgrades or installing other packages possibly even applications that may alter your sound behaviour strange things may start [...]