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Simple Firefox optimizations that really matter
2007-11-01 22:46:00 Mozilla Firefox is primary browser I use with my Ubuntu Gutsy but like any software it has benefits in line with drawbacks. Of course there are more benefits in Firefox (I really think so) but here are several tips that would help to improve Firefox' performance and make it working even better. These tips were ... More About: Matter , Simple
Anatomy of the Linux file system
2007-10-31 21:10:00 What I love IBM for is their DeveloperWorks Here is M. Tim Jones' latest publication exploring Linux filesystem. Respect to IBM and Tim! When it comes to file systems, Linux is the Swiss Army knife of operating systems. Linux supports a large number of file systems, from ... More About: System , Anatomy , File , File System
Linux Halloween! [pic]
2007-10-30 23:29:00 Share This ---Related Articles at Linux Screw:Anatomy of the Linux file systemWhat is a Linux guy doing at Sun?AboutWeb server cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10Fun: How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu Linux More About: Halloween , Allo
Switch to Ubuntu from different Linux distros or other OSes
2007-10-30 23:18:00 Few will deny that many people that use Unix-like Operating Systems or M$ Windows make the switch to Ubuntu these days or are considering it. The following links will show you Ubuntu equivalents of many traditional Unix applications, and tasks. Switch ingToUbuntu/FromLinux Switching to Ubuntu From Red Hat Enterprise Linux And Fedora FromGentooToKubuntu Switching to Ubuntu From Mac OS X SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows Share ... More About: Diff , Witch
Fun: Chuck Norris vs. Linus Torvalds
2007-10-28 08:35:00 I'm sure everybody remembers facts on Chuck Norris , and here are Linus Torvalds facts! Look at the picture, do you see any differences, don't you? Linus Torvalds once found a segmentation fault in the universe. Linus Torvalds can run kill -9 and kill Chuck Norris. Linus Torvalds doesn't die, he simply returns zero. Linus Torvalds first ...
Ajust LCD brightness from command line
2007-10-25 09:20:00 As many other Ubuntu users several days ago I've upgraded my Feisty to Gutsy at my Dell Inspiron 1501. Unfortunately many things that worked for me in Feisty doesn't work in Gutsy just after upgrading. Among them are: suspend/hibernate and brightness adjustment. At this moment I'm trying to get these features working and certainly share results ... More About: Line , Command
Install and configure Nagios (OpenSUSE example)
2007-10-24 22:19:00 Nagios is an enterprise-class monitoring solutions for hosts, services, and networks released under an Open Source license. If you're planning on installing it, check out this installation guide that gives you step-by-step instructions on how to set it up. Rainer Brunold: I don't want to write here a full documentation about Nagios, I prefer to give you ... More About: Configure , Config , Xamp
Eject/Close CD or DVD media with shell command
2007-10-24 22:02:00 Shell command eject that is available by default in most of Linux distributions, allows to open and sometimes close removable media tray (usually it’s CD-ROM or DVD media). To eject media: eject /dev/cdrom or eject cdrom As you see the name of device can be a device file or mount point, either a full path or with the ... More About: Media , Shell , Close , Command
Get uptime/loading/logins information remotely
2007-10-24 09:56:00 There are two utilities available in Linux and Unix that provide information about remote user logins. These are rusers and rwho, which are backed up by corresponding daemons, rusersd and ... More About: Information , Logi , Mote , Loading
Fun: new distro Yoda Linux [pic]
2007-10-23 23:13:00 Share This ---Related Articles at Linux Screw:Linux distro chooserPhotos: Linux core team and Linus' favorite distroLinux distro timeline 1992-2007XFCE based KateOS 3.6 releasedSelect Linux distro for Lenovo ThinkPad More About: Distro , Yoda
Download or Upgrade Ubuntu at highest speed
2007-10-20 13:17:00 As we know Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is released already and as this OS is extremely popular most of mirror servers we can download or upgrade Ubuntu from are overwhelmed by huge amounts of downloads. In my case I tried to upgrade my Feisty several times but there was no luck (downloading stuck at different points). But ... More About: Download , Speed , Upgrade U
Evolution RSS Reader Plugin
2007-10-19 23:41:00 Luci Langa’s Evolution RSS Reader Plugin enables support for feeds in the Gnome Evolution mail reader.The newest version (0.0.6) of this plugin has the following changes against previous ones… Share This ---Related Articles at Linux Screw:Google calendar and Linux Evolution syncNokia E61/E62 sync with Evolution in KubuntuNokia E-series sync with Evolution via Bluetooth in UbuntuKDE on Nokia ...
Linux distro timeline 1992-2007
2007-10-19 22:52:00 It was started with Linus' announcement: Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as ... More About: Linux , Timeline , Distro
Fun: Bill Gates quotes
2007-10-19 22:04:00 If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system. Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free. 640K ought to be enough for anybody. The Internet? We are not interested in it. Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about ... More About: Bill Gates , Quotes , Gates , Bill
Fun: How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu Linux
2007-10-19 10:13:00 Just came across a site that explains how to make Windows to look like Ubuntu (themes, boot screem, icons)… If you are using a dual boot system with Ubuntu and Windows, you can clearly notice the limitations Linux has. And for many (myself included), Linux is extremely difficult. After awhile I came to the conclusion that ... More About: Ubuntu Linux , Make
stress: workload simulator for Linux
2007-10-18 23:43:00 stress utility is a workload generator that imposes certain types of stress on UNIX-like operating systems: stress is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale, by kernel programmers to evaluate ... More About: Linux , Workload , Stress , Simulator
Linux + 8*PS3 = Cluster for gravity simulation
2007-10-18 23:24:00 A certain Gaurav Khanna from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth created computing cluster based on 8 (eight) Sony PlayStation 3 consoles that is meant to simulate gravity processes. The project is named as "PS3 Gravity Grid" and allows to model Binary Black Hole Coalescence using Perturbation Theory. Actually it’s not first case when PS3 is used as ... More About: Linux , Cluster , Simulation , Ravi
$GENERATE directive to autocreate DNS records
2007-10-18 14:15:00 $GENERATE directive is available in multi platform DNS server BIND since 8.2 version. It helps you to create hundreds or thousands of resource records with one line in zone file. Nice example is to use $GENERATE in order to make PTR records for certain DNS zone. Share This More About: Records , Dire , Cord , Rect
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release day!
2007-10-18 09:09:00 Latest version of highly popular Linux distribution Ubuntu is to be released today (2007, October 18th). It’s named Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and has release number 7.10. Here are some of Gutsy features that are available out-of-the-box: GNOME 2.20 Desktop 3D effects Desktop search Fast user switching Firefox plugins in Ubuntu Dynamic screen configuration Graphical configuration tool ... More About: Release
CryoPID: Freeze and Unfreeze processes in Linux
2007-10-17 21:20:00 CryoPID is an application that allows you to capture the state of a running process in Linux and save it to a file. You can use this file to resume the process later on, either after a reboot or even on another machine. Both x86 and x86_64 are supported and you can get sources ... More About: Freeze , Processes
Windows: you failed at failing [pic]
2007-10-17 09:17:00 Click on the picture to enlarge it… Found at www.suseblog.com. Share This More About: Windows
glipper: Clipboard Manager for Gnome
2007-10-17 08:51:00 Long time ago when I first tried Linux (it was Debian) there was Gnome desktop manager default on those distribution. Gnome seemed to be the most simple and usable manager especially after I tried KDE. It’s funny now but the only advantage I noticed then in KDE was a clipboard manager available by default and ... More About: Manager , Clipboard , Ager
Running Cisco Packet Tracer in Linux
2007-10-16 11:07:00 Packet Tracer is Cisco Network Simulation Software that is natively vailable for Micro$oft Windows users only. But thanks to Wine project we can use it in Linux as well. Packet Tracer is a self-paced, visual, interactive teaching and learning tool. It is designed to increase interaction between students and instructors, promote student learning, and enhance instructor ... More About: Running , Packet
Manage your WiFi profiles with WiFi Radar
2007-10-15 21:42:00 WiFi Radar is excellent Python/PyGTK2 application to manage your WiFi profiles. Common usage of this utility lies in scanning for available networks and creating profiles for preferred ones. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it. You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange ... More About: Wifi , Profiles , Manage , Profil
ZIM: text editor with wiki concepts
2007-10-15 21:42:00 As it comes from project’s site Zim is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor written in Gtk2-Perl that brings wiki concepts to your desktop (every page is saved in wiki format). Nice hint is that pages can contain links to other pages (to create file it’s enough to link to ... More About: Concepts , Text Editor , Text , Wiki , Editor
Prevent Brute Force Attacks at OpenSUSE 10.3
2007-10-15 10:47:00 In this article I will show how to install and configure fail2ban on an OpenSUSE 10.3 system. Fail2ban is a tool that observes login attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or host, fail2ban stops further login ... More About: Force , Attacks , Tacks , Attack , Atta
Web server popularity 2007 (October)
2007-10-15 10:47:00 Well known Internet services research organization NetCraft just finished web servers popularity survey that showed continuous market share decrease of Apache httpd. This month it lost 2.8% market share. It’s caused by increasing number of MySpace blogs, Live.com hosts and Google’s Blogger servers. Get more information here. Share This More About: Web Server , Server , Popularity , October , Pula
Fun: Linus Torvalds' quotes Top 10
2007-10-14 13:42:00 The idea to write a post regarding the funny Linus ' quotes came into my mind after I came across this wiki page. So, let me suggest TOP 10 list of his quotes: Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload ... More About: Quotes
go2linux.org: Linux Operating System blog
2007-10-13 13:14:00 Recently I came across a nice site named as Linux Operating System (go2linux.org). As it comes from it’s name it is devoted to our favorite Open Source operating system and contains lots of useful information. Linux newbies would find there all they need, I'm sure. For example here is great tip about how to add Google ... More About: Operating System , Blog
Why use SUDO instead of SU?
More articles from this author:2007-10-12 00:32:00 Nice article on why we should use sudo instead su. Actually it’s one of "must read" articles. GNU/Linux distributions use the ?su? model to elevate user priveledges. SU (or Substitute User) is a simple command which allows you to assume another identity on your pc. It?s most-often use is to become the root or administrative user. ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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