ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.

Intro

Continuing my install series, here’s how you get OpenOffice 3 and Java w/ the Browser plugin working out of your homedirectory on an old linux install (EL4) without root access. I assume you already have a working [...]

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.
Intro
Having just gone through my guide on installing Firefox now you’re ready to do basically the same thing for Thunderbird.

This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called [...]

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.
Intro
So you want Firefox 3.new on your EL4 workstation and don’t have root access? Worse off it’s an x86_64 machine? This is not for the faint of heart, and you will run into some snags, [...]

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
Intro
All I wanted to do was play Internet radio via a SOCKS proxy. Is that too much to ask for on Redhat EL4? Apparently so. So after many hours of frustration, here is how you [...]

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
Installing TaskCoach and its dependencies in $HOME for EL4
This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.
Requirements

Python-2.5.5.tar.bz2

wxPython-src-2.8.10.1.tar.bz2

TaskCoach-1.0.1.tar.gz

Directions

Python
Install it like normal unless you have a modern distro that [...]

Overview
I’m starting to adopt Unicode/UTF-8 into my world to allow for more internationalization in my projects. Someday I might play with Perl6’s UTF-8 stuff too. I also want to be able have different charactersets render correctly while using Mutt. I often get email from people in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and SouthEast [...]

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
For today’s installment we go over getting some basic libraries up to shape. If your Linux distro is old enough, you can’t use 3rd party binaries like Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread), Firefox, and Flash because the [...]

I’m coining a new term here : chown3d (or ch0wn3d depending on how l33t you are).   
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access. 
This is the case for a lot of people working Corporate jobs as engineers, including me.   I realized chr00ted is a more appropriate [...]