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Linux Upgrade Conky Seamod Font issues
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Crontab, RSYNC & SSH Keys Linux Mint
Introduction Here’s the deal. I was performing an rsync backup of my website using an Ubuntu server but decided I’d also start backing up from my PC, Linux of course. I thought it would be a straight copy the scripts
Remmina Unable to Connect to RDP Server
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Unable to Browse .local suffix Linux Mint
Introduction Wow what a pain in the arse this was and it didn’t make any sense at first. Short story is .local anything didn’t work even though my domain servers had lookups for .local addresses and there was the domain
Network Problem Linux Mint Using Motherboard Intel Driver
Introduction If like me you are having issues with the default network driver with a constantly disconnecting/reconnecting adapter, this was/is my fix Solution First step is to download the latest driver to your PC. Change to the driver src directory and
Auto Mounting Drives on Linux Mint
Introduction I had started to really use Linux more and more so decided why not use Linux for my desktop as well? However I did not want to get rid of Windows, I am not a Linux fan-boy, I still