what(): Serial Port failed to open: open: Permission denied Trying to get access to your serial port without the need for running whatever program as sudo or root? You’re probably not in the dialout group, if that’s the case, here’s the fix: First, check you aren’t in the group: groups alex This will list...
Read more →After getting invited to join the Steam Beta for Linux, (after weeks of using the bypass) I decided to get playing some TF2. After the long install and download I booted it up. The Value splash screen with the tap-guy loads and the menu begins to load, but once it has finished, the game...
Read more →To take a screenshot in Android 4.1.x (Jelly Bean) the same button combination from Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) works: Hold Volume Down & Power buttons for roughly a second. You should know when the screenshot has been taken, the screen will flash white and a translation effect of the screen will take place. The screenshot...
Read more →If you’re planning on setting up your raspberry pi as a server or a project that’ll want you to access it from a static external IP address, here’s a really simple and quick way to get that up and running for free. First off, this guide uses the free service from no-ip (www.no-ip.com), so...
Read more →If you’ve managed to find yourself deleting, overwriting or generally messing up your profiles .bashrc file there’s a really easy way to fix it. A default version of the file can be found under “/etc/skel/.bashrc”, simply coping that over your profiles one (found in your home directory) will restore it to default. Make sure...
Read more →Download mlbviewer: Go and grab the latest version from the sourceforge page below: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlbviewer/ Unrar: tar -zxvf mlbviewer2012.tar.gz It doesn’t require any installation but you will need a few extras and the easiest way to install them is shown below: Download PyXML: PyXML is an XML processing tool for python which this project uses,...
Read more →fatal error: curl/curl.h: No such file or directory If you’re missing the curl/curl.h header file, chances are you’re just missing the correct dev package file for the curl library. sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev That should fix it.
Read more →If you’re getting the following error: fatal error: libconfig.h: No such file or directory Then you’re probably missing the libconfig-dev package from your system. Simply run the following command and it’ll fix it: sudo apt-get install libconfig-dev
Read more →After upgrading from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 I found gimp couldn’t access the shared libraries it needed, most likely an error with symbolic links as described by lovelyindia in this post. Fix 1: He managed to fix the issue by removing gimp and purging the offending libraries and then letting apt deal with the...
Read more →One thing that Linux Guru’s and Terminal Wizards often argue is that it’s way quicker to use the command line to do anything in Linux than it is through menus and what not. While the jury is still out on this, there are a lot of things they know which do help put the...
Read more →If you’re trying out the latest version of Ubuntu, 12.04 or Precise Pangolin and you want to keep your old /home partition, chances are you’ve come across the installation hanging on a process “Removing conflicting operating system files…”. No worries, this seems to be a common bug and there’s a pretty easy work around....
Read more →Those pesky windows buttons (maximise, minimise and close) default to the left of the menu bar after a new Ubuntu installations, and it’s been happening since 10.04. Most people, like myself, are stuck in our ways and just want them back where they belong. It’s pretty easy to do this, just open up a...
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