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• Hamachi on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 error

  October 27, 2009 | No comment

  I have Hamachi installed on Jaunty successfully by following this article, but having error when trying to make the same on Karmic. Step 17 failed simple with “Killed” message when I put the command $ sudo hamachi-init -c /etc/hamachi After googling around, I found out this posts, it solved my problem, so I put it here for those who are struggling with the Hamachi installation on Karmic. ...

• Speedup your flock browser (applied to firefox too)

  October 25, 2009 | No comment

  I decided to try Flock on my new Ubuntu Karmic installation, which is running beautifully on my old-boy Toshibar R100. And to make it faster, you may try as I did, I bet it will make your flock much faster when browsing 1. In Address bar type about:config . A warning is displayed, just proceed with the button “I’ll be careful, I promise” 2. In the Filter, type network.http 3. Now, ...

• Get back your Alt+Ctrl+Backspace in Karmic

  October 18, 2009 | No comment

  Alt+Ctrl+Backspace is disabled by default in Karmic, to enable it back, it’s quite easy 1. GNOME - Goto System->Preferences->Keyboard- Choose Layout tab, then click “Layout Options” button- Select “Key sequence to kill the X server”and tick the option Alt+Ctrl+Backspace 2. KDE - From your terminal, launch “systemsettings”- Select “Regional & ...

• Duplicate a website like Teleport on Ubuntu Jaunty Linux

  October 14, 2009 | No comment

  If you are a Windows user, you probably know about Teleport to download or create a copy of a website on your hard-disk What about on Linux? Well, you have another alternative powerful option: using wget - To mirror your website: wget --convert-links -r http://www.yoursite.com - To download specific file types: wget –accept=.html,.doc,.docx,.pdf,.xls,.xlsx,.ppt,.pptx –recursive –no-clobber ...

• Looking no more! I found the best Mind Map for my Ubuntu

  October 6, 2009 | No comment

  I have been missing Mindmap Manager when switching to Ubuntu from my Windows box and wondering for a while to find a powerful & competitive alternative free solution. Freemind is the first one that came up on my Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 system, it satisfied my needs but the graphics seem to be plain & poor compare to the windows counterpart. Here is the screenshot of Freemind. And today I found ...

• Adobe Air on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

  September 29, 2009 | No comment

  Three simple steps for installing Adobe Air on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 1. Download Adobe Air from Adobe Air Download site and put to Desktop 2. Make the file executable sudo chmod +x ~/Desktop/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin <font face="tahoma"> <big>3. Execute</big> </font> ~/Desktop/./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

• Three steps to install Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

  September 27, 2009 | No comment

  Fire up Terminal and follow 3 steps to have a brand new Firefox 1. Add ubuntu-mozilla ppa sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list” sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list” 2. Add the ...

• Speed up your Ubuntu (Jaunty)

  September 23, 2009 | No comment

  1. Use my RAMDisplay current value sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Change it sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=10 or edit gksudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf look for vm.swappiness vm.swappiness=10 or add it if it doesn’t exist 2. gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/ondemand Change echo -n ondemand > $CPUFREQ to echo -n performance > $CPUFREQ

• Skype on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

  September 23, 2009 | No comment

  Follow these two steps to install Skype 2.0 on Ubuntu Jaunty 1. Add medibuntu to sources.listssudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list; sudo apt-get -q update; sudo apt-get –yes -q –allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring; sudo apt-get -q update 2. Install Skypesudo apt-get install skype After ...

• Convert PDF to images (jpeg, png etc…)

  September 19, 2009 | No comment

  If you want to convert pdf to images (png, jpeg), try Ghost script command gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m -r300 -sOutputFile=output_file.png input_file.pdf You can change “png16m” with the devices from gs -h