Howtos

I’ve had some good time writting these guides, tell me what you think.

Linux/Distro Guides

• Linux Tidbits
  • Linux Tidbits is a collection of commands I’ve learned over my first year with Linux. Good for the new user to get his feet wet.
• Gentoo Helpful Tidbits
  • New to Gentoo? Users should find this intro a good place to get the basics.
• Gentoo Quick Install
  • Though maybe a little dated, here’s the basics to get Gentoo up and running.

Hardware Guides

• Gentoo on a Clamshell iBook
  • I update this tutorial whenever I can. I has become my guide to creating a nice Gentoo installation.
• Ubuntu on an iBook
  • My baby love, the first Linux install that kept.
• LiveUSB on PPC
  • Putting a Linux Distro ISO on a flash drive isn’t tremendously difficult, booting it is. My adventures in Open Firmware (or treks through white screen, black text).

Software Guides

• Getting Gnome Volume Manager to Play Nice
  • I’ve fought Gnome Volume Manager before, in different versions I’ve had some unexpected behaviors, this can help some of it.
• Mac Security
  • I love Macs, but even a few things can not be thought of. Think Open Firmware.

DVD Guides

• Doing System Backups to DVD
  • With no external hard drive and wanting to reinstall Windows, I had only one way to save my current Linux installation.

Design Guides

• Better LCD Font Rendering
  • If you’re an Ubuntu user, this isn’t much good. Otherwise, make reading easier.
• Howto Create a Simple but Nice Webpage from Scratch
  • Original web design was all about tables when I started, now it’s better to use css. This is a simple design for basic uses but it is streamlined and efficient.
• Converting Windows Icons to Linux
  • I have collected icons over the years, some of these works are pretty amazing, but when I got to Linux I had no way to look at them. This is how they can be converted.

Games

• Continuum – A favorite game of yor, unfortunately very hackable now. For the daring, please follow… just need to patch Wine a bit to run.
  • Gentoo
  • Ubuntu
• Darwinia on Gentoo
  • I tend to like games that have a billions of things happening at the same time, Darwinia can be alot of that.