Archive for May, 2006

klik - An Easy Way to Check Out Linux Software

24 May 2006

While perusing a Linux forum yesterday, I found an interesting capability for Linux called klik.  By following some simple install instructions (wget klik.atekon/client/install -O - | sh) you can install klik.  Then you use the klik software to access the klik website where you can select a 'package' to download.  The package is actually an [...]

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Setting Up Sound

9 May 2006

Since I had installed Debian sound hadn't been working.  Every now and then a dialog box would pop up saying something about sound, but I had been ignoring until I had more time to explore what was wrong.  Yesterday, I deciided to see if I could get sound to work on my Linux box.
My initial [...]

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Printing from Linux to a Windows Shared Printer

7 May 2006

After a couple of weeks of trying various configuration combinations, I finally was able to print from my Linux box to a shared printer on my Win XP box.  It took a long time and I'm still not entirely sure what I did to make it work.  As I've mentioned before, this continues to be [...]

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