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.

Debian Lenny ATI HD 3450 AGP Ati proprietary drivers

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Hardware Linux

This guide will show you how to install on Debian Lenny proprietary drivers for ATI HD 3450 AGP Ati The packaging scripts for Catalyst drivers 9.1 and 9.2 seem to be broken on Debian Lenny, and as of 9.2, Debian … Continue reading

How to add repositories to your ubuntu

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Ubuntu

Because of that default repositories don’t contain the right locations for most software packages that you’ll want to install, you need always to add a repository to your ubuntu installation, to be able to download and install packages.

I can't install proprietary ATI driver on debian Lenny

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : I can’t install proprietary ATI driver on debian Lenny, please help !!

Howto : Recover Deleted Files With foremost

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

    Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving.

How to access a git repository from behind a proxy which requires authentication

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : How to access a git repository from behind a proxy which requires authentication

Nagios HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Solved

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question: After installing nagios monitoring tool . everything seem to be fine . except HTTP deamon with warning HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden. how to solve this issue ?

Calculate with Qalculate on Linux

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

  The calculator options on Linux just blows the Windows calculator away. Imagine a calculator where you can solve extremely complicated expressions, or just convert between different measurements, and you’ve got Qalculate. You can use it to convert currencies based on … Continue reading

Shut Down or Reboot a Solaris System

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Unix Tutorials

The process of shutting down a Solaris system is critical. Using the init program to restart a system causes Solaris to perform a sequence of steps to shutdown services gracefully. The reboot command bypasses the runtime control scripts and can … Continue reading

install Skype in Fedora,Centos and Rhel

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

You can just visit Skype’s site and click on the Fedora package. Select to open it with ‘Package Installer (Default) and you are done.

Upgrading from Fedora 7/8/9 to 10

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

**Note: It’s always a good idea to back up all important data before upgrading. Fedora is using Preupgrade to easily upgrade your installation to the new release by downloading the new packages through Internet without having to download and burn … Continue reading