Author Archives: Mel Kham

About Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

Fix some configuration issues after kernel update in opensuse 10.x and 11.x

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Suse

After the kernel updates in opensuse 10.x and 11.x. you got some configurations who are not working any more. Soms of these configurations are of Nvidia drivers, Virtualbox, and Vmwar, let`s see bellow how to reconfigure them after a kernel … Continue reading

Statistics institute: moving to open source increases cooperation

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Moving to open source leads to increased cooperation between public administrations, says Carlo Vaccari, manager of software development at Italy’s National Institute of Statistics, Istat.

How to install Lamp in Opensuse 11.x

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. In this … Continue reading

What is the difference between setting permissions chmod 777 and chmod 1777 ?

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : What is the difference between setting permissions chmod 777 and chmod 1777 ?

Install Any HP printer in Linux

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Hardware Linux

This  tutorial  will  explain  how  to install  any  HP printer  in Linux   systems .   what  you  have  to  do   is to check  if  your   printer is  support  from here :   http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/recommended.html      Lets  take  … Continue reading

How to Change Hostname in opensuse 11/11.1

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Suse

A hostname (occasionally also, a sitename) is the unique name by which a network-attached device (which could consist of a computer, file server, network storage device, fax machine, copier, cable

How to install and use winFF a graphical user interface for ffmpeg

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg’s, flv’s, and … Continue reading

How to control a computer remotely using Gnome vnc server

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

This how to show you how to  control a remote computer with Gnome VNC Server,  We will start by setting the preferences of remote Desktop performance, to do that go to

Gates and spain`s first minister weigh in on debate over school laptops

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

 Gates and Zapatero weigh in on debate over school laptops Both the chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Spain’s Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero have gotten involved in the debate on the type of software to be installed on … Continue reading

Asus and Microsoft join forces against Linux

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Asus and Microsoft join forces against Linux  Microsoft and Asus have launched a marketing campaign to encourage netbook users to use Windows rather than Linux.