March 9th, 2010 at 11:45am |
eee-control is so far the best utility for controlling Eee PC hardware under Linux.
It definitely does its job, instead of the now obsolete not-working-at-all eee-applet program, and has is even better than eeepc-tray, whose development has now been explicitly stopped by its author, for a couple of reasons:
has better hardware control for powersaving (e.g. [...]
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December 12th, 2009 at 6:53am |
A partire dalla versione ddi Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 il nuovo gestore dell’avvio GRUB2 viene installato di default sulle nuove installazioni (non negli aggiornamenti).
GRUB2 presenta una serie di miglioramenti, tra cui il supporto nativo per una varietà maggiore di filesystem, una configurazione modulare, il supporto per il ripristino automatico delle impostazioni in caso di necessità e, [...]
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December 8th, 2009 at 5:48pm |
SquirrelMail is an OpenSource powerful yet easy to use webmail interface.
Setting it up is extremely easy. Here I am going to cover just a few not so obvious aspects of the setup process.
Download Squirrel Mail installation package from here:
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December 1st, 2009 at 7:03pm |
There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a
since this command would take a lot of time to process (~1 hour) depending on your hardware in [...]
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November 30th, 2009 at 6:55pm |
“bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied” error commonly occurs when you have wrong options set in /etc/fstab and are trying to compile some code.
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November 29th, 2009 at 6:46pm |
xset is an X.org command line utility. A bunch of interesting things can be done with it:
Tweak the mouse sensitivity or accelleration on the fly
xset m (accelleration value)
Turn the system bell off temorarly
xset b off
Manually switch off the display / Force the display to go on standby now
xset dpms force standby (or suspend or off)
Manually [...]
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November 24th, 2009 at 10:15am |
Here is how to tweak GNOME gconf-editor parameters from the command line
Use the model (this should be all on the same line!):
gconftool-2 –direct –config-source
xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
–type Boolean –set /apps/path/to/key True
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November 12th, 2009 at 12:17pm |
With Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 a long awaited completely re-written from scratch version of GDM has been shipped. The only major drawback is that there is no graphical customization tool for it.
Despite this a few settings can be toggled through gconf
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October 22nd, 2009 at 4:45am |
nUbuntu was born as a security testing xUbuntu flavor. However, due to the too big effort needed to keep a whole distribution up to date, despite it being based on the work by Ubuntu teams, it is seldom updated.
Much more frequently are updated its core components, through the nUbuntu PPA. Adding this PPA to your [...]
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October 14th, 2009 at 11:47am |
XBMC was born as a Linux Media Center interface for the XBox, however it turned to be one of the best media centers interfaces also for linux desktops.
In order for you to install it you have to add the XBMC PPA repositories.
Read here on how to do that: xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=185738
One of the less trivial configuration aspects [...]
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