Dig Up System Information Using the Terminal

Published in January 31st, 2008

Troubleshooting, upgrading, or just curious? Find out what’s in your system without opening the case. Using these Linux command line tools, you can get details about your hardware and distribution. I’ve tested these commands in Ubuntu 7.10, but they should all work in other Linux distributions. Unless noted otherwise, all of this software is included [...]

IBM Lotus Symphony on Ubuntu

Published in January 30th, 2008

Posted by Tom in reviews, software

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Lotus Symphony is IBM’s new productivity suite based on OpenOffice 1.1.4. It’s not open source (OpenOffice used to be dual licensed), but is free and available on Windows and Linux. I give the Beta 3 release a shot on Ubuntu to see if it had an advantage over my usual combination of Google Docs and [...]

Fix the SSH “Remote Host Identification Has Changed” Error

Published in January 29th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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Every SSH server uses a random key to identify itself. When SSH is installed a new key is generated. SSH clients keep track of the host key, if it changes the user can be warned that they might not be connecting to the computer they think they are. Most of the time this happens when [...]

Installing the Slim Glow Plasma Theme in KDE 4.0

Published in January 28th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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If you’re not a fan of the large borders on the default KDE 4.0 Plasma theme, you’re in luck. The first themes for Plasma are starting to appear. Here’s how to install the new Slim Glow theme in KDE 4.0: Create a folder called desktoptheme in ~/.kde4/share/apps/, if it does not already exist. Download the [...]

Theme GNOME Apps Running in KDE 4.0

Published in January 25th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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The familiar GNOME applications that I have been using in KDE 4.0 since I started testing it all run without a theme. When you have GNOME installed as well as KDE 4.0, there’s a simple way to get your GNOME applications to use your current GTK theme while running in KDE. Press Alt-F2 to open [...]

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