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How to install and use Tor for anonymous browsing or to access...
Some people want to browse the Web in complete anonymity. One tool for doing that is Tor. However, there are other reasons for using Tor. For example, when I am travelling in a country where the...
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Synchronise your Gentoo Linux clock with an Internet time server
There are a number of ways to synchronise Gentoo Linux with a time server on the Internet. Here I look at a few alternatives. ntp-client ntp-client and the NTP daemon ntpd are installed when you...
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‘Server not found’ by browser at launch
I haven’t had any significant Linux problems or new requirements in the last few months, hence no new posts here. My last real problem was back in June 2013 when I rolled my Gentoo installation to...
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Fixing a problem with received video in Skype when using the AMD Catalyst...
Some users of Skype for Linux have reported that the bottom half of the received video image is corrupted in installations that use the closed-source video driver for ATI GPUs (the AMD Catalyst...
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Bypassing a corporate Web filter when using the command line
or ‘How to bypass a corporate Web filter and download YouTube videos via the command line’ One of the offices where I work uses a Web filter to block access to certain sites, such as YouTube. However,...
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Installing Firefox for Windows and the Silverlight plug-in in WINE
I use 64-bit (~amd64) multilib Gentoo Linux on my main laptop, and had been using successfully Version 0.2.3 of the Pipelight browser plug-in in 64-bit Firefox 29.0.1 for Linux to access an office...
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Installing and using the Pipelight browser plug-in with Firefox 30 for Linux
I use Gentoo Linux (~amd64) on my main laptop. Although I do not use Netflix or any of the other streaming video services that require the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in, I do need to use a...
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WebRTC – A viable alternative to Skype
Skype for Linux 4.3 and upwards requires the use of PulseAudio, which has caused discontent amongst those Linux users who do not use PulseAudio. Although I do use PulseAudio, I recently found out about...
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Synchronising the clock using NTP in Sabayon Linux
In my previous post I explained how to install Sabayon Linux via the command line from the Sabayon Linux ‘SpinBase’ ISO. If the system clock in your current installation is not being synchronised with...
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How to specify the e-mail account Thunderbird uses to reply to event invitations
Usually applications with a GUI are intuitive to use and not too difficult to configure. But sometimes I end up banging my head against a brick wall. Such was the case when I wanted to change the...
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Virus infection in Windows 8.1 Connected Account
Although I use Linux on my own machines, the family PC runs Windows 8.1 (awful OS, by the way). When I bought the PC I installed AVG AntiVirus Free. As a way of thanking AVG for the free application, I...
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Preventing a DNS Leak and WebRTC Leak when using Tor in Linux
Background I have added to my 2011 Tor post a note on how to avoid a DNS Leak and WebRTC Leak, but am repeating it here in a new post, along with a Bash script that can be used to toggle the relevant...
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NetworkManager creates a new connection ‘eth0′ that does not work
Several months ago a new entry ‘eth0′ began appearing under ‘Available connections‘ in the KDE plasma-nm widget (the KDE GUI front-end to NetworkManager) in my Gentoo Linux installation. However, there...
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Not able to access the CUPS Printer Manager in Firefox when, or after, using...
Just a quick tip if you are trying to use the CUPS Printer Manager in a Firefox browser window (http://localhost:631/) to add a printer, manage a printer or view print jobs but the brower displays a...
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More on NetworkManager creating a new connection ‘eth0′ that does not work
In a previous post I described a problem I have been experiencing with NetworkManager since Version 0.9.10.0 (I am now using Version 1.0.0): sometimes, but not always, there is an invalid second eth0...
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NetworkManager creating a new connection ‘eth0′ that does not work, Part 3
I’m even more convinced the problem discussed in my previous post is due to a bug in NetworkManager. I believe the issue with the Avahi daemon generating an IPv6 Link-Local address is a consequence of...
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NetworkManager creating a new connection ‘eth0′ that does not work, Part 4
Further to my previous post, this is to report the result of another experiment. By doing all the following I can stop NetworkManager creating an invalid second eth0 connection: Enable IPv6 system-wide...
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‘Waiting for 192.168.1.254…’ (Why I could not access a home hub’s management...
I had not been able to access the Manager of the BT Home Hub 3 on my home network to view and configure the hub’s settings. All the network’s users could access the Internet, and I could ping the hub,...
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Find the time now at any town or city Worldwide from the command line in...
In my hunt for a command to return the current time at any town or city in the World, I recently found a Perl script now.pl posted in 2012 by Jim Monty on grokbase. The script uses a Perl module to...
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Using a keyboard shortcut in Linux to add an e-mail signature giving current...
In my previous post I showed how to find the current time at any town or city Worldwide from the command line in Gentoo Linux. My interest in a command to do this is not to use it on the command line...
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