How to install a Samsung ML-2525W printer on a Debian Squeeze – 64 bit system.

 

There's the good, the bad and the down right ugly!

The ugly!

So we'll start with the ugly and get the rant over with.

Samsung are pleased to embed a Linux system into their printer, but in my view, pay not much more than lip service, to helping Linux users to install the required drivers. More will be revealed.

Upgrading Version 2 Thunderbird to Version 3

Introduction

If you have updated recently your version of Linux Distro in Ubuntu, Mint and others you might have hit on a couple of upgrade problems associated with the Thunderbird Version released with the distro. This howto covers the instructions needed to overcome these problems. At least one of the fixes is very simple the other is only slightly more complex.

Thunderbird Problem

Aptitude Updates Errors & Howto resolve them

Installing packages from anything other than the main distribution repository can be fraught with difficulties, the problem can manifests itself when you run from the command line the command

#> sudo apt-get update

Hydrogen Drum Synthesiser Tutorial

Jack an Audio Mixer for your Desktop

Introduction

Introduction.

Further to my page offering a "how to" on encrypting emails, this page deals with encrypting files.

There are any number of reasons you may wish to encrypt individual files, for example, maybe you have sensitive customer data, perhaps a client list or cost price tables that if they fell into your competitors hands, would amount to a gold strike.

I will repeat here, it is my belief, all company laptops should have some form of encryption. Ideally, the whole drive should be encrypted, but that is ''not'' the subject of this page.

On this page, we're going to discuss how to encrypt individual files

How to Encrypt emails in Debian Etch 64 bit, PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

Introduction

Why use email encryption?

It's common knowledge that email is not a secure medium to use for communication, but almost everyone has turned a blind eye to that and many millions of messages are sent each day, that are wide open to interception. More recently, the UK government has published plans to create a massive database of every email sent through the UK Internet system and this has raised very serious questions about personal privacy.

HSDPA Huawei E160g

Note:- If you intend to use this device with Intrepid Ibex Ubuntu Version 8.10 released at the end of October 2008 you need not follow any of the steps below. The new version of the Network Manager supports Mobile dialup connections from the Network Manager icon itself on your desktop

SIP(Session Initiate Protocol) Phone or Voice over Internet Protocol

A problem occurred the other day when a DVD video project (Video TS) burned with K3b was unreadable within Windows. When inserted on a windows machine, it would show as a blank DVD, yet on my Ubuntu desktop it showed the Audio TS and Video TS folders and played with no problems what so ever. Several forum posts later it was discovered to be a know bug in Hardy Heron with the precompiled version of geniso included in the distribution. The cure is to downgrade to the gutsy version of it.