Eterm doesn’t display “ or ”

Eterm doesn’t display the fancy “ or ” on my Debian. It is not a big problem, but it’s very annoying when it doesn’t properly display these symbols used in some programs such as aptitude. I wanted to fix it, but didn’t realize it there was a fix. After two years or using it, I tried to find the solution again, and I found it. Just add the this code to the ....

May 8, 2008 · 1 min · 102 words · kenno

Enable mod_userdir for Apache2 on Debian

By default Apache2 doesn’t enable mod_userdir, a module to enable all users in your Linux system to host web pages. On Debian, it’s very to enable this mod, and probably with other modules as well. There is no need to edit the config file manually. There are two tools offered by Debian to assist you with enabling and disabling the modules in Apache2: a2enmod and a2dismod. As the name inferred, a2enmod enables the modules, while the a2dismod does the opposite....

April 22, 2008 · 1 min · 106 words · kenno

Debian enable/disable services

Install <b>rcconf</b> if you don’t have it yet. <b>rcconf</b> is Debian’s runlevel configuration tool. It allows you to enable or disable the services from starting up automatically. Recently, I got annoyed by <b>postgresql</b> starting up at boot time, so this tool did the trick. Source: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-runlevel-configuration-tool-to-start-service/

April 2, 2008 · 1 min · 46 words · kenno

Vista Doesn't Recognize USB Drive

Recently my brother’s laptop which runs Windows Vista home premium no longer recognizes any USB drive. Every time a USB drive is connected to the laptop, it asks to install the drivers for that device. A while back at my part-time work place, a customer returned a laptop because it stopped recognizing the USB thumb drives. The good news is I found the solution (from the Internet) on how to fix this problem....

January 26, 2008 · 1 min · 207 words · kenno

Fixed: /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so: no version information available

After installing XEmacs, and ran it in terminal-mode, I got this error: $ xemacs -nw<br /> xemacs: /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so: no version information available (required by xemacs) The XEmacs works fine despite producing that error message. However, I want to get rid of it. Who or what do you turn to when you have problem with computer in general? Google search is your friend. Here is the possible cause of the above problem....

October 22, 2007 · 1 min · 191 words · kenno