Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory for WINE
WINE Version (The native Linux version is here.)Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory has always rocked as an on-line game. Trying to capitalize on their success with the online part of Return to Castle...
View ArticleRecover Data From a Damaged CD/DVD
This is just a convenient place for me to bookmark this information as it is just a copy of James Litten's excellent page about data rescue. The steps are simple. All commands are to be run on a single...
View ArticleIndex of Games for Modern Linux
Games for Modern Linux Index Halo: Combat Evolved for Modern Linux Doom for Modern Linux Quake for Modern Linux Quake2 for Modern Linux Quake3 for Modern Linux Quake4 for Modern Linux Return to Castle...
View ArticleMedal of Honor: Allied Assault on Modern Linux
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault contains the original MOH and the two expansion packs, Spearhead and Breakthrough. MOH was first released in 2002. There is a Linux installer, released by Iculus, for the...
View ArticleUsing Clonezilla to Back Up a Windows Drive
I was asked by my daughter to build a MS Windows computer that she could use for her work-from-home job. Normally, I would have provided a Linux workstation, but her job required software that was...
View ArticleRecover Deleted files from a FAT12 Floppy Disk
While cleaning and re-arranging a closet, I came across several boxes of ancient 1.44MB floppy disks, some of which were labeled indicating they contained pictures I had taken using a now-ancient Sony...
View ArticleUnreal Tournament GOTY/UT99 for Modern Linux
Released on November 16, 1999, Unreal Tournament (also known as UT99) is an arena first-person shooter for Multiplayer on-line competition or you cam play against bots off-line. It features several...
View ArticleUse Virtualbox to mount and transfer data for Tivo Disk Upgrades
I have a Linux-based workstation that is already configured for my needs, but I also needed to replace the disk drive on my Tivo Series 3 (Model TCD652160) using MFSTools 3.2, which is a Linux-based OS...
View ArticleRecover Corrput GZIP Files
It is possible for gzip'ed files top become corrupt and the normal means of extracting the archive will fail. This is especially disconcerting when you are trying to restore from a backup. Fortunately,...
View ArticleUpgrade Mageia 6 to Mageia7
Back in the early days of Linux, the changes to the operating system were so dramatic that even when updating withing the same distro, in-place point release updates were problematic enough and it was...
View ArticleInstalling Dropbox on Mageia7
Dropbox is a commercial cloud-based online file storage service. A Basic account provides 2GB of space at no charge. To begin installing Dropbox, go to their website and create an account.Step 1. On...
View ArticleInstall Codeweaver's Crossover on Mageia Linux
I have used Codeweaver's Crossover product since it was originally offered. Sadly, I install it on one of Codeweaver's unsupported distros, Mageia. This is, of course the successor distro to Mandrake...
View ArticleCreating TASK-* RPMs for Mageia: task-codeweavers-essentials
A task-*.rpm package is a metapackage, a special type of package that installs other RPM packages that are delineated as dependencies of the task-*.rpm. They contain no actual data, they just cause...
View ArticleCreating a Custom Mageia Repository
As extensive as the Mageia RPM package repositories are, they don't include every application possible and it makes sense to create a local repository of these additional RPMs since I have several...
View ArticleSetting up a TOR Relay Server on Mageia6
The Onion Router (TOR) is not a server frequently run by most Linux users, especially North American users. Many countries actively persecute their citizens for their beliefs and anonymity is...
View ArticleConfiguring urpmi-proxy for Mageia7
Not much has been mentioned about urpmi-proxy for Mageia. Indeed, the somewhat cryptic documentation for it appears to have been written around the time of Mageia5 in a breezy, informal style. Once I...
View ArticleInstalling Zoom Videoconferencing for Mageia Linux.
Zoom is a popular, if somewhat insecure, videoconferencing application in wide use. It does offer Linux support, just not for Mageia7.However, if you head over to the Zoom Linux download page, and...
View ArticleThe Sims Complete Collection on WinXP
On February 2, 2000, Maxis Software released the first of a series of life simulation video games, The Sims. Microsoft XP was released on October 25, 2001. There were several expansion packs released...
View ArticleTigerVNC Server for Mageia7 and SSH tunneling
"TigerVNC is a high-performance, platform-neutral implementation of VNC (Virtual Network Computing), a client/server application that allows users to launch and interact with graphical applications on...
View ArticleCarmageddon 1 & 2 On Modern Linux
This is just a placeholder for relevant links until I can get around to installing the game. http://www.carmageddon.com/forum/topic/18741 http://www.glidos.net/carma.html?lang=en#instvoodoo...
View ArticleDOSBox for Mageia7
Mageia7 does provide a pre-compiled package for DOSBox, but does not provide any graphical frontend for it. Since DOSBox may typically need special configurations for specific application, a GUI...
View Articlefail2ban for Mageia7
Fail2ban is an extensible Swiss-army knife of brute-force authentication prevention and it comes with an additional filters to detect other attempts to compromise your system. If you do nothing but...
View ArticleBooting ISO Images in Mageia7
Years ago, I used GRUB and memdisk to boot directly from ISO images I kept in /boot/. Things like SpinRite, F4UBD, PLPBT and so on. It was pretty straightforward on 32-bit Linux using GRUB.Then GRUB2...
View ArticleWeb Proxy for Mageia Linux - Privoxy
From the homepage, "Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and...
View ArticleDOSBox-X for Mageia Linux
DOSBox-X is a DOS emulator that provides the most flexibility possible for DOS emulator as it can not only run the DOS games that DOSBox can run, but the Win3.1, Win9X and WinME operating systems....
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