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Switch up to root su – Password: xxxxx Add the Adobe repository to yum vi /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-x86_64.repo Add & save the following to the file [adobe-linux-x86_64] name=Adobe Systems Incorporated baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux Add livna.org repository rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm You may …

[HOWTO] Installing video codecs for Blueray, DVD, avi, flac, flash, mp3, mp4, mkv, … on Fedora 64 Read more »

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One line: sudo yum -y install http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/cupswrapperHL2270DW-2.0.4-2.i386.rpm http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/hl2270dwlpr-2.1.0-1.i386.rpm Take note that Brother misnamed the HL-2270DW drivers so they will not appear where there supposed to in the list. Look for HL2270DW, just past the conventionally named drivers. Post created by: …

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Open Evoluton’s Account Editor Identity Enter Name, Full Name, and Email Address Receiving Email Server: imap.1and1.com Port: 993 Username: <your email address> Encryption Method: SSL on a dedicated port Authentication: Password Sending Email Server: smtp.1and1.com Port: 587 Check Server Requires …

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Switch to root su – Password: xxxxx Download and install dependencies required by dmg2img yum -y install zlib-devel* bzip2* openssl-devel* Download, unzip, and untar the dmg2img package: wget http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/dmg2img-1.6.5.tar.gz gunzip dmg2img-1.6.5.tar.gz tar -xvf dmg2img-1.6.5.tar.gz cd dmg2img* Build the package and …

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Switch up to root su – Password: xxxxx Create a keyfile containing random data, make it readable onlly to root dd if=/dev/urandom of=/root/keyfile bs=1024 count=4 chmod 0400 /root/keyfile The following requires the crypto drive partition, X being the drive and …

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Provide VirtualBox with alternative screen resolutions On the host run: vboxmanage setextradata “OSX-ML” “CustomVideoMode1” “1920x1080x32” vboxmanage setextradata “OSX-ML” “GUI/CustomVideoMode1” “1920x1080x32” vboxmanage setextradata “OSX-ML” “CustomVideoMode2” “1600x900x32” vboxmanage setextradata “OSX-ML” “GUI/CustomVideoMode2” “1600x900x32” On the Mac Guest, open this file in Terminal: sudo …

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