Setting up a website for a friend

My English House

For the past few days I have been working on setting up a site for a friend of mine.  He wants to do some additional work as an English tutor working over the internet giving lessons via Skype.

I decided to  use blogger and a nice template: and so far things are going well.

Here is a link to the site : its also under links on my homepage.

If anyone has any suggestions on site design etc: please go ahead and let me know. 

Xubuntu: adjust screen brightness

Xubuntu: adjust screen brightness

install xbacklight (sudo apt-get install xbacklight) and try:

xbacklight -set 50

Linux menus and the Windows Start Key

Linux menus and the Windows Start Key

Linux distributions like Ubuntu open the main menu with Alt+F1 instead of the Windows key that most new Linux users would be expecting, but it used to be simple to change the shortcut key. Since Ubuntu 9.10 the process isn’t so obvious, but we’ve got the instructions for you.

Set up a Fog server for open source image deployments

Set up a Fog server for open source image deployments

Credit for the below should go to the Spiceworks user who posted this on the Spiceworks forum some while ago.  Its a great guide and I always turn back to it when setting up a Fog server.

Change the kernel that Fog clients use for PXE boot

Change the kernel that Fog clients use for PXE boot

We recently tried to use FOG to image a Dell Latitude E6510, and had problems due to the kernel that FOG was pushing to it. The kernel didn't support the Intel 82577LM Gigabit NIC. Here are the steps I
took to change the kernel to one that supported the NIC.