Setting IP Address in Text Mode on CentOS Linux

Enter command

   system-config-network-tui

then

   service network restart

Controlling Presentation mode from command line in Windows 7

presentationsettings /start

presentationsettings /stop

Enabling Presentation Mode on Windows 7 Desktop

Create the following entries in the registry:


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MobilePC]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MobilePC\AdaptableSettings]
"SkipBatteryCheck"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MobilePC\MobilityCenter]
"RunOnDesktop"=dword:00000001

Repairing the .NET Framework 2.0

• Click Start, click Run, type installer in the Open box, and then click OK.
• On the View menu in Windows Installer, click Details, right-click the Name column header, and then click Comment.
• Right-click the cached Windows Installer file that has the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 RTL x86 enu comment, and then click Repair.
• After the repair process has completed, quit Windows Installer.

Getting Wireless Networking To Work On Acer Travelmate C110 in Windows 7

Use the driver from here : http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=11918&lang=eng

Backup a complete Linux system

tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/dev /

Ubuntu 10: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk error: Package sun-java6-jdk is not available

Ubuntu 10
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk error

Package sun-java6-jdk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘sun-java6-jdk’ has no installation candidate

Solution:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Installing VMware tools manually in guests

Tools are here:

http://packages.vmware.com/tools

Installing Media Wiki on Centos 5 Fatal Error: PHP's PCRE module seems to be compiled without PCRE_UTF8 support.

rpm -Uvh http://zid-lux1.uibk.ac.at/pub/dist/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/pcre-6.6-6.el5_6.1.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://zid-lux1.uibk.ac.at/pub/dist/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/pcre-devel-6.6-6.el5_6.1.i386.rpm

CentOS Yum Error: thread.error: can't start new thread

When the error is in fastestmirror.py, use the yum --disableplugin=fastestmirror ... option