Scenario / Question: How do I setup freeNX on a remote server system and connect to it. Solution / Answer: Installing the freeNX server software on the remote server machine and using the NoMachine freenx client to connect to it from you local machine. Installing freeNX Server: On the server [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I check my hard drive for bad blocks and if any bad blocks are found add them to the bad block inode to prevent them from being allocated in the future. Solution / Answer: Run fsck and have it run bad blocks program. This allows fsck to fix any bad blocks that are [continue...]

Scenario / Question: Sound stops working and I get the error PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused Solution / Answer: Find out if anything is blocking sound, kill the processes and restart pulseaudio Blocking Sound: Run the command to see what processes are using sound: # fuser -v [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I remove a third party boot loader from the MBR Solution / Answer: Erase the first 512 bytes of the harddrive to remove the bootloader Erase MBR Using a linux boot cd: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 Windows dos boot disk: fdisk /mbr Windows XP recovery [continue...]