I’ve been wanting to install the latest Nvidia driver on my laptop for a while. I need to set it up working with bumblebee as it is a laptop with Optimus technology. It’s been working really nice with the stable driver, but I’ve just been wanting to have the bleeding edge for once. After a… Continue Reading »
Today I decided to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I’m a GNU/Linux user at heart, so why do I want to install OS X you ask? Well mostly out of curiosity really. Just to see how it goes. I read this article on Lifehacker a while back about how to accomplish this with… Continue Reading »
To share files between all my devices on my network easiest way seems to be to go with Samba. To set up Samba I’ve installed the following: sudo apt-get install samba system-config-samba This would install all the applications I need to set up sharing (I could do without the GUI to set up shares, but… Continue Reading »
The login-message gets kinda boring after a while, here’s my current message: Welcome to Ubuntu 12.10 (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-27-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ Last login: Tue Apr 16 20:05:28 2013 Boring I know… So, let’s pimp it up a bit shall we? Start by opening a terminal and changing your directory to /etc/ cd /etc/update-motd.d Then… Continue Reading »
Installing VMware Player on Ubuntu is really easy. Head over to the VMware Player download site. Download your flavor of the Player. After downloading, open up a terminal and cd to your download directory. To install the player: sudo sh VMware-Player-xxxxxxxxx.xxx.bundle This will bring up a dialog taking you further through the install