Article Category: How To
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by wheaties
Up until a couple weeks ago, I had never installed a FavIcon on any of my Django sites. I never really thought about it until one day I enabled the SEND_BROKEN_LINK_EMAILS setting for one of my sites. As soon as I did that, I was able to track...
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago by wheaties
In continuation of a previous article, now you can learn how to install Django on a shared hosting provider. I know for a fact that this HOWTO works with Site5 because I used it to setup a friend's account with Django a few minutes ago.
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago by wheaties
Django's newly merged comments application seemed to break a lot of things for me. Here are some tips in case you're in the same boat.
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago by wheaties
Use Django's Object-Relational Mapper to design your database quickly and easily--regardless of the programming language/framework used in your final product.
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago by wheaties
Learn how to get started with Django on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago by wheaties
Learn how to make your own iPod-compatible audio books using completely free utilities on Linux!
Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago by wheaties
The steps I took to install Slackware 12.1 on my Asus EeePC (701).
Posted 7 months ago by wheaties
Add the SwiftFox Debian repositories to your system to make for easy installation and upgrades.
Posted 7 months ago by wheaties
Learn how to add Opera to your Debian repository list to make installation and updates easy.
Posted 7 months ago by wheaties
Learn how to add the Debian Multimedia repositories to your system so you can easily install and update useful video and audio programs, codecs, and libraries.
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago by wheaties
Learn how to compile and install your own Linux kernel so you can tweak your system to the max!
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago by wheaties
Sometimes things just go wrong when you try to change your bootloader in Linux. Whether you use GRUB or LILO (or some other bootloader), this article may be of use if you find your MBR somewhat hosed.
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago by wheaties
I recently purchased a 120GB drive to use as a shared disk between computers. Since I use several operating systems regularly, I wanted a format that all could play well with. Here's what I had to do.
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago by wheaties
For those of you who love Java as much as I do, you might be wondering if your existing netbeans projects can be upgraded to JDK 6. This will explain how to do it.
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago by wheaties
Many of us who use Linux on our laptops have run into a particularly annoying feature when surfing the & 'Net. Sometimes when you try to simply move the mouse, your web browser magically goes to a different page. Let's fix this.
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago by wheaties
This is a great feature and all, but I personally don't like the "nag" screen when I don't shut down Firefox the way I should.
Posted 2 years ago by wheaties
Learn how to get MySQL up and running on a fresh installation of Slackware.
Posted 2 years ago by wheaties
Learn some basic information about Linux and how to use the command line interface.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago by wheaties
With the newest release of my favorite distribution of Linux, I had to try my hand at installing and running it on my laptop. This is the beginning of a series of smaller articles dealing with Slackware 11.0.
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago by wheaties
Accessing wireless networks with Linux can be one of the biggest pains ever--trust me. I have created this guide in hopes that your attempts may go better than my first attempts.
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago by wheaties
The steps I took in order to install SLED 10.0 on my HP Pavilion dv8000. Hopefully this article will be of use to you.
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago by wheaties
Ever started a project that involved multiple developers, or wanted to keep track of changes that you make to your files? Learn how to effectively use a Subversion (SVN) repository to ease the burden of manually merging or backing up files.
Posted 2 years, 2 months ago by wheaties
Is the scroll button on your mouse not working under Linux? Learn how to enable it with just a few lines in a configuration file.