Ask a computer question

Well I'm bored today. And when I'm bored I need something to do. I was trying to think something amazing to do (because I only do amazing things...Pff yeah right) so I said to myself (yes I do speak to myself, what's wrong with that?) "I know what I'm going to do! I'll start a section where people can ask Computer questions! Yeah! That would be cool!"

So there you go. You can now ask questions or requests for troubleshooting, by adding them in the comments bellow, and I'll try my best to answer them. Questions include things like "what's the best phone for me" (oh boy that's a tough one) and the like.

Be aware though; questions that have nothing to do with IT will be deleted on the spot. (Or turned into soup, what ever seems more delightful).

Install Gnome in ClearOS

Sometimes the console in ClearOS may not be the most easy to work with (or you may like pretty pictures and icons and buttons like I do) so what do you do then? Easy..You install Gnome! And how do you do that you ask? I'm glad you did. Very easy.

First of all I tend to enable all repositories in ClearOS even if I'm not going to use them. Ehh if it breaks, it breaks. I can fix it later on.

Log in to the console as root, and type:
yum install gnome-common nautilus gdm
yum install xterm
yum install gnome-panel
yum install gnome-terminal

After the installation finishes type startx to start the GUI. This way I was able to install Opera, manually add permissions to folders in different parts of the Flexishares and in a way faster and easier than the console. Go on give it a go, it might be helpful for you too.

Installing Oracle VM Extensions under Ubuntu

To install the Oracle VM Extensions that will allow you the usage of USB under Virtualbox do the following:

1. Download and install the same version of the extensions as the Virtual box.
2. Type Sudo usermod -aG vboxusers yourUserName in a terminal.
3. Log off and log in again.
4. Open the VM control panel and tick under USB to use USB 2.0.
5. Plug the USB device. The OS will grab the device. Eject it and the Virtual box will see it is now free and capture it for itself.

I have tried that with various USB devices; some where found straight away (like an iPod for example), others never did. It's a hit a miss I guess.