How to add the missing Extract option to the KDE right click context menu. Looking at a recent Debian installation with KDE the right click on a zip file didn’t show the extract here option The above image shows the pop-up context menu when right clicking on the zip file. As can be seen in […]
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Installing Epson Printer Drivers in Linux
Replacing an old printer with a shiny new Epson printer I was looking for the Linux print drivers. In the past, adding an old printer I found the drivers already available within the printer configuration. Prior to buying the printer I had made some research, reading about drivers available from the Epson website. To be […]
KDE4 Plasma Move Panel Between Monitors
I was looking for a solution to move a KDE panel between monitors. Whilst testing SDDM I swapped my primary monitors. At the end of the test I swapped back as before. But whilst I was able to reassign the primary monitor and the main panel with the Kicker etc. the top panel remained on […]
Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r8169
Completing a new Linux installation there may be additional firmware support to include. To include the non-free firmware I had amended the package repository file (/etc/apt/sources.list) to include the non-free elements deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ testing main contrib non-free On a new Debian installation after all the general updates and installations […]
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firmware: failed to load rtlwifi/rtl18723b
A new installation of Debian on a recent laptop purchase gave the not unexpected missing firmware error messages. On completing the installation of Debian I was seeing the error: firmware: failed to load rtlwifi/rtl18723b I considered whether this may be resolved by installing the package firmware-linux-nonfree. But decided to check whether there may be a […]
Blocking libwww-perl with Apache .htaccess
Testing a website recently with one of the online SEO tool, amongst the results was the comment: Your server appears to allow access from User-agent Libwww-perl. Botnet scripts that automatically look for vulnerabilities in your software are sometimes identified as User-Agent libwww-perl. By blocking access from libwww-perl you can eliminate many simpler attacks. So how […]
dpkg mythtv-database Failed to connect to database
Updating my MythTV server was showing an error for the package mythtv-database Updating my MythTV server with apt-get upgrade I was seeing an error related to the package mythtv-database. The update to the package mythtv-database was held due to an error: dpkg mythtv-database Failed to connect to database: Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: […]
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Unpacking gz Files
To view a file with the .gz extension it needs to be uncompressed, or unpacked. Examples of gzip composed files are the log files found in the directory /var/log. In this directory the older log files are stored compressed. To show this they have the .gz extension For example the syslog files are: syslog syslog.1 […]
wkhtmltopdf Web Page Screen Capture
Looking for a method to take screen shots of websites I found the program wkhtmltopdf and the associated wkhtmltoimage. Wkhtmlpdf can take a website page and save it as a pdf file. I was interested to try out wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage. These programs view a given web page and save it as a pdf and […]
Browser Redirection Using .htaccess File
If you have an old website domain and wish to redirect visitors to your new domain, this can be achieved using an htaccess file. .htaccess is a text file which is located in the root of your website. The lading full-stop denotes a hidden file. You may be able to edit/create the file through your […]
