Installing an Epson Perfection 1670 Scanner

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HOWTO: Epson Perfection 1670 Scanner

The scanner firmware comes in a file called ESFW30.BIN, which apparently is only available if you install the software on the CD-ROM provided with the scanner. Unfortunately, the software only installs under Windows and then you have to copy the software from the Windows machine to the linux machine. Or you can follow this simple process to download the firmware (provided by Jeff Silverman) and then update your /etc/sane/saned.conf

$ wget http://www.commercialventvac.com/~jeffs/ESFW30.BIN
$ sudo cp ESFW30.BIN /etc/sane.d

Edit /etc/saned.d/snapscan.conf and change the line...

firmware /path/to/your/firmware/file.bin

...to point to /etc/sane.d/ESFW30.BIN

$ scanimage -L

You should see that your scanner is now detected. If so, you can now scan using XSane.

joomla

To get to the user log in page is:

index.php?option=com_user&view=login

on the end of the base URL.

The submit link is:

index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=form

The administrator panel is:

administrator


How to change the number of items showing - http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_reduce_the_number_of_articles_displayed_in_Joomla_15.html

To find out the links for pages go Menu > Select the relevent Menu > Then put a tick in the box and go edit to find out the link for the page.

Info on creating pages: http://thejoomlablog.blogspot.com/2006/03/making-links-to-pages-that-arent-in.html.

Numlock not working in Ubuntu

If the numlock won't work, despite pressing the numlock key then go to:

system > preferences >keyboard > mouse key tab and uncheck the box.

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config :
Comment out Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server and replace it with:

Subsystem sftp internal-sftp

At the end of the sshd_config add the following:

Match group sftponly
ChrootDirectory /home/%u
X11Forwarding no
AllowTcpForwarding no
ForceCommand internal-sftp

Type the following commands as root, i.e. sudo in front of each command or sudo -s before you start.

1. chown root.root /home/
2. usermod -d /
3. adduser sftponly

Changing Default Browser from Konqueror to Nautilus in Gnome

If anyone else ever sees this I know it looks a bit strange, but I installed Konqueror as I like it for web browsing sometimes. Then whenever I mounted an external drive Konqueror would pop up instead of Nautilus. I happen to prefer Nautilus as a file browser.

Anyway, put up with it for ages and then found a ridiculously easy fix!. Just Open Konquerer, browse to any folder, right click and go 'open with' then select Nautilus.

To mount an AFP share using commandline on a Mac

mount_afp afp://username:password@host_ip:548/apps /Volumes/apps

.htaccess

Put the following in the .htaccess file which should be in the top directory you want to restrict access to.

AuthUserFile /server/path/to/.htpasswd
AuthName "Login and Password Required"
AuthType Basic
 
require valid-user

You then have to create the .htpasswd file:

htpasswd -c /path/to/where/you/want/it/.htpasswd username

This will then prompt you to set the password for that username as a part of the file creation.

Best to have it a level above where the .htaccess file is for security reasons and make sure that the permissions are 644.

chmod 644 filename

In the httpd.conf - in apache2 probably /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default - within the tags change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride ALL.


If you get a message "Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration" then run the following command:

sudo a2enmod rewrite