This one is easy. However it took me a while before I found the sollution. Here is the scenario. You have an old serial wheel mouse and you do not want to buy a new one as the current is doing great its job :) If you try the Xorg auto configuration and fire up your favorite X window manager the mouse...

If you have a small server for your own use (such as your personal page) or have a busy server servicing a lot of php requests you might find it a good idea to install some goodies in order to optimize the performance of your machine. A really good start might be installing the eAccelerator. The eAccelerator...

This is the second part of the Gentoo Tutorials. In the first section “Minimal Gentoo Installation” we have built a fresh Gentoo system using the minimal install disk and downloading the stages/ports and building the kernel. This left us with a bare Gentoo OS. In this second Gentoo Tutorial...

This is quite an easy one. Even for a newbie. Here we will show the quickest way to create an openVPN tunnel between your safe home Linux/BSD router and your Windows client. Very useful for mobile computers, which do not always use the same secure network. Mind that this only shows you the quickest way...

As you might already know, there is a testing version of K Desktop Environment 4 released. It is as expected full with bugs and problems to solve. Here is one: After you install the KDE4, try to change the wallpaper by selecting a new desktop from the ones available with the installation. For some reason...

This is the third part of our Gentoo tutorials. In the first two parts we have installed Gentoo from the minimal installation disc and added some interesting applications and utilities. In this third part we will install an apache webserver with several different php versions. I will use php4 and php5,...

In this article we will guide you through the Ubuntu 7.10 server edition installation process. If you have an old piece of hardware and would like to make it a server or you need a LAMP server where you can host your website you can easily setup the Ubuntu server edition and take advantage of one of...

How often do you use PuTTY and how many times have you prayed to god that its developer will add tabs management in the next version? Many? Yes, same here. We all use this lovely piece of software, which misses only key feature. Not anymore. A nice guy has created a software, which adds this important...

For this guide, we will use samba. It is popular enough, so any problems with it, should have a published solution on the internet. First off, we will need Samba installed on our box. Different operating systems have various ways of installing it. for gentoo: emerge -av samba for debian based: apt-get...