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This is an installation script for Minecraft on Linux. It installs the Minecraft launcher in the system, so that all users can easily start and play Minecraft. It creates icons and a shortcut to the launcher. The script is an improved version of this script (github https://gist.github.com/wvega/728367 ) When the user starts Minecraft, it will download a copy of Minecraft to the user's home directory, exactly like when manually installing Minecraft. This script works fine on Fedora, but I imagine it should work on most Linux distros. The only requirement is that Java is installed somewhere. The script assumes there is a link to Java at /usr/java/latest/bin/java or in /usr/bin/java, otherwise it will exit with an error. The script downloads the Minecraft launcher, and installs it system wide. Sometimes the Minecraft launcher address has changed and then of course the script must be updated. Download the shell script here or from github . Do "chmod +x minecraft-insta...

What do you do when you have an unkown Windows hard disk or partition, that you don't want to boot or that is unbootable? How do you identify the Windows version installed on the hard disk or partition? In Linux, we are used to mount the hard disk and then look at /etc/issue, /etc/redhat-release or something similar. You can even see the kernel version in the file names of the installed kernel images in /boot. But for a Windows OS? Well, you could look at the version of ntoskrnl.exe, for instance. Here are the version numbers for different versions of Windows [1]: 4.x: NT 4.x 5.0: Windows 2000 5.1: Windows XP 5.2: Windows 2003 Server (and R2), Windows XP 64-bit 6.0: Windows Vista, Server 2008 6.1: Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 6.2: Windows 8, Server 2012 6.3: Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2 10.0: Windows 10, Server 10  So just mount the hard disk/partition and then look for C:\Windows\System32\ntoskrnl.exe. But how do you read the version number of a Portable Executable (PE) f...

The MSI GE60 Laptop has an Elantech touchpad that has always had some problems working in Linux after suspending and resuming the laptop. Edit: Found some notes. It seems to have worked fine in Fedora 18, but in Fedora 19 after a synaptics driver update (xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.7.1-3.fc19.x86_64) it went totally nuts. Edge scrolling stopped working and after suspend/resume, the touchpad notification icon was flashing over the GDM login prompt, alternating with the on and off icon image. The touchpad was also turned off after reboot and couldn't be turned on except for in the Gnome system settings. After a few updates, some of the problems were fixed, except for the problem that it is turned off after suspend/resume. At least now with Fedora 20, which is currently installed on the laptop, the touchpad always stops working when resuming from suspend, and the hardware button to turn on doesn't affect its state. It is using the psmouse kernel driver and synaptics in Xorg: ...