Archive for May, 2007

Fixing a scanner broken by the Feisty upgrade

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

If you have been using a USB scanner and upgrade from Edgy to Feisty, you may find that your scanner no longer works.You can use this fix to solve your ... Read more..

Filesystem

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Crypto filesystems keep your data safe – even if someone steals your computer.Linux offers a number of encrypted filesystem options – each with a different approach to the encryption problem.Encrypted ... Read more..

Howto Change Default text editor in Debian Etch

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

By Default Debian Etch Provides the nano editor you need to follow this procedure.In this example i want to use vi editor as my default editor.This is Veryuseful if you ... Read more..

Howto Setup Dual Monitors with NVidia in Ubuntu

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

This tutorial explains how to setup Dual Monitors with NVidia in Ubuntu.It’s quite a pain to get dual monitors working your first time using Linux, however I hope this guide ... Read more..

Ubuntu 7.04(Feisty Fawn) Screenshots Tour

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and ... Read more..

How to Increase ext3 and ReiserFS filesystems Performance in Linux

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

This tutorial explains how to increase ext3 and ReiserFS filesystems Performance in Linux.The ext3 or third extended filesystem is a journalled file system that is commonly used by the Linux ... Read more..

CHANGES COMING!!!!!

Monday, May 14th, 2007 Posted in Books | No Comments »

Within the coming days, GEEKTIMELINUX.COM is going to be changing looks. That's right, after several years looking at this theme, there are changes on the horizon. As I write, our highly ... Read more..

Automatix2 Setup in Debian Etch

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Automatix is a graphical interface for automating the installation of the most commonly requested applications in Debian based Linux operating systems. Full Story Read more..

NFS Server and Client Configuration in Ubuntu

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

NFS was developed at a time when we weren’t able to share our drives like we are able to today - in the Windows environment. It offers the ability to ... Read more..

File Server Configuration in Debian Using Samba

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Samba is a suite of Unix applications that speak the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. Many operating systems,including Windows and OS/2, use SMB to perform client-server networking. By supporting this ... Read more..

DNS server Setup using bind in Ubuntu

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

DNS Stands for Domain Name Service.On the Internet, the Domain Name Service (DNS) stores and associates many types of information with domain names; most importantly, it translates domain names to ... Read more..