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How To Install Spotify In Ubuntu

posted on April 5, 2013 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

Follow this guide and you’ll get to enjoy Spotify’s Linux client. Note that it’s a preview release and is unsupported. Create a new source file for the Spotify repository. # sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list Add the following line into the source file. Add Spotify’s public key so that you can verify Spotify’s packages. sudo apt-key adv [...]

Log all Putty sessions by default

posted on March 6, 2013 in HowTo with 0 Comments

Putty has a feature to log your sessions to log files. This is a handy and I use it a lot. Comes in handy when you want to roll back what you did or to simply remember a command you ran. Session logging is not enabled by default but if you want logging enabled by [...]

Google voice and video installer error 1603

posted on March 4, 2013 in HowTo, Windows with 0 Comments

For some stupid reason my Google hangout and voice calls stopped working on my Windows machine. Removed the Google voice plugin and tried reinstalling it and got hit with a new error “Installer error 1603″. After some digging around the issue was narrowed down to either permissions or the windows installer service having some hangover files [...]

How to set the date and time in Archlinux

posted on January 21, 2013 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

Quickly set the current date and time in Archlinux. 1. Check the current time. [root@atom ~]# timedatectl status Local time: Mon 2013-01-21 08:57:21 MYT Universal time: Mon 2013-01-21 00:57:21 UTC RTC time: Mon 2013-01-21 00:57:21 Timezone: Asia/Kuala_Lumpur (MYT, +0800) NTP enabled: no NTP synchronized: no RTC in local TZ: no DST active: n/a 2. Set [...]

Linux How to change user UID and GID

posted on January 15, 2013 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

I was running Debian for sometime and in Debian the UID starts at 1000. Now I moved to CentOS 6 and the UID starts from 500. Simply changing the UID/GID seemed like an quick way to get my file permission back in sync. Here’s how to easily change the UID and GID for a user [...]

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