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International Space Station switches to Debian 6.0 instead of Windows XP.

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Admin — No Comments ↓

The International Space Station has migrated all of its computers from Windows XP to Debian GNU/Linux 6.0. This will greatly add to the security of the computers on the ISS and although it requires retraining Cosmonauts in the use of…

Tagged with: ISS, linux, nasa, science, space, switch, travel
Posted in Debian-Testing

The new Debian 7.0 distribution really is an awesome desktop Linux distribution.

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Admin — No Comments ↓

I have just started using the Debian 7.0 distribution after installing it today on my laptop and it is an extremely good Linux distribution that has codecs already installed allowing the user to play Xvid and MP3 formats straight out…

Tagged with: 7.0, debian, desktop, gnome, linux
Posted in Debian-Testing

Debian non-free firmware package interfering with USB HID devices.

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Admin — No Comments ↓

I recently installed the firmware-linux-nonfree package on my Debian Squeeze installation and after a re-boot, the USB keyboard and mouse has stopped working. Even my old PS2 mouse would not work. I have chrooted into my Debian installation from Linux…

Tagged with: debian, keyboard, Mouse, not, Squeeze, working
Posted in bejiitaswrath, Debian-Testing

Viewing information about your user on Linux.

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Admin — No Comments ↓

The groups command displays the list of groups that your user is a member of. [neo@deusexmachina]:~> groups neo cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev bluetooth scanner netdev Using the id command will display a more verbose output that shows the…

Tagged with: finger, information, linux, shell, user, whoami
Posted in Debian-Testing

me-tv package not working properly in Debian Squeeze.

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Admin — No Comments ↓

The me-tv package is not working properly in Debian Squeeze. It loads up but the window will not respond to input, therefore you can not control the application to change channels or the volume. So I am using my digital…

Tagged with: debian, me-tv, not, responding, Testing
Posted in Debian-Testing

Mars colonization will not happen overnight. But will it happen?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Admin — No Comments ↓

The colonization of the planet Mars will not be a quick process despite movies like Red Planet that displayed a terraforming method that used algae to create oxygen in the atmosphere. That could work, but it would not be a…

Tagged with: asteroids, base, mars, space, travel
Posted in Debian-Testing

Installing printers with the CUPS web interface in Debian Linux.

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Admin — No Comments ↓

I recently had to add a printer to my Debian System and the System Settings -> printers dialog in the Gnome 3 System Settings application would not detect my Canon MP150 printer. Therefore, I started the CUPS interface by visiting:…

Tagged with: adding, cups, debian, linux, printing
Posted in Debian-Testing

Listing hardware on a Linux system. And using the UUID drive identifiers.

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Admin — No Comments ↓

Listing hardware on a Linux system. This is easy when using the Linux command-line. In the olden days, you would use the cat /proc/pci command to list hardware installed on the PCI bus, but this /proc file is deprecated and…

Tagged with: debian, drives, hardware, Testing, UUID
Posted in Debian-Testing

Useful Linux shell tricks. Using Brace expansions to create folders.

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Admin — 1 Comment ↓

The Linux command-line offers many useful methods of creating many folders on your computer at once. This command will create a few folders on your system named one,two,three,four and create the folders five,six,seven,eight within each folder created. ~$ mkdir -p…

Tagged with: bash, brace, expansions, shell, wildcards
Posted in Debian-Testing

Burning ISO images to CD/DVD on Debian GNU/Linux.

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Admin — No Comments ↓

Burning a ISO image to a CD or DVD with GNU/Linux is very easy indeed. The wodim command that replaced the old cdrecord software that used to be shipped with Linux is the standard application for performing these tasks. The…

Tagged with: burning, images, ISO, linux, wodim
Posted in Debian-Testing

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