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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 [...]

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 [...]

Using Samba in File Managers

28 April 2006

In my last post, I described how I set up and configured Samba.  Now it is time to see how to use Samba, both on the Windows and the Linux boxes.
First, to the Windows box.  Chapter 3 of the O'Reilly online Samba book offers a comprehensive discussion on how to set up a Windows client for [...]

Setting Up Samba

25 April 2006

As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the reaons I'm setting up this Linux box is to see if I can make do the normal things that I do with Windows XP.  Of course, that means I need to be able to network my Linux box with other Win XP boxes.  The easiest [...]

Installing Firefox from a Tar.Gz

22 April 2006

In my last post, I talked about installing Firefox using a Debian package and Kpackage.  But, this method provided me with an older version of Firefox than I wanted.  So, I went searching for a newer version that was Linux compatible.  Once I found it, I then had to learn how to download and install software [...]

Installing Firefox from a Debian Package

20 April 2006

My first attempt at installing a major program was to install Firefox.  I first installed Firefox using Kpackage.  This was very easy.  I opened Kpackage, found a menu selection that said "Search for Package" and found "Mozilla-Firefox" as a package that could be installed.  No major problems occurred as I worked my way through Kpackage [...]