Posted by wintellect on Fri, 14 May 2010 - 09:05

Having played with Debian for a short while I decided I'd give the testing branch (aka Squeeze) a try. Unfortunately the upgrade wasn't as easy as I'd hoped or expected.


Posted by wintellect on Tue, 4 May 2010 - 08:54

As usual, I upgraded my Ubuntu in the standard manor when the "upgrade" button appeared in my display of available updates. Here are a few of the things I noticed about the upgrade.


Posted by wintellect on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 - 17:39

It is possible to post a twitpic image from the CLI and it requires no GUI.


Posted by wintellect on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 - 11:04

As mutt is text based, it can often prove difficult to open up an attachment, a PDF for example. However, you can tell mutt to pass the attachment on to another application to resolve. In this way, you can pretty much do whatever you need remotely on the CLI. Other times you may need to inform mutt of what mime type an attachment is. Here's how...


Posted by wintellect on Wed, 7 Apr 2010 - 09:54

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) has long been the standard of printing and print drivers for Linux. Having a PDF printer can be extremely useful - so here's how to set one up in Debian.


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