Recently I had a rather complicated WordPress problem. The client had different videos on their pages and they decided that they wanted them on the sidebar instead of being in the content. After much tweaking and researching I discovered a way to do this. Download and install the following plugins: 1. ProPlayer 2. Widget Logic [...]

I am used to doing this all the time, but some people who are new to linux may find this useful. Make a directory in your account called www which would be: /home/useraccountname/www/ make an index.html file that has some text like “Yay working!” 1. open a terminal 2. Install VIM by typing: apt-get vim [...]

Well I have finally made my final move to Linux. It took quite awhile due to lots of quirky issues and figuring out how to get Linux to do what I wanted. Also I was always finding I had to switch back to Windows to do something or to play a game. Vista really motivated [...]

If you have one virtual hosting (that means your localhost actually points to /var/www) then change the file “/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default” and replace the following line AllowOverride None with AllowOverride all

I found a great article on install Open Office 3 here. The only problem is that all your spell checking modules are removed from your computer. All you have to do is reinstall them. The following spell checkers need to be reinstalled: gnome-spell aspell-en aspell wbritish myspell-en-au myspell-en-za myspell-en-gb hunspell-en-us

1) sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends stop 2) sudo dpkg –configure -a

A problem I ran with check boxes that I had four sets of checkboxes (7 checkboxes in each group) and I wanted one check box to make all those check boxes in that group checked. The added problem was that the field names were array names so they couldn’t be used and the other way [...]

Now that you have your system installed, I will go through how you improve it so that it does amazing things. Since I use Mint Linux (which is Ubuntu) all of these tutorials will be geared towards any Ubuntu version that is based on 7.04 Feisty. Graphics This one of the first things you will [...]

My first post will start off with how to pick and choose a version of Linux. Some people complain that are too many (over 300 flavors) and it keeps new users away. You shouldn’t feel scared about that. What it offers is a huge diversity that allows your computer to be customized to the way [...]