Notes, fixes and guides.
Sixteen years of working notes on Linux and networking, Django and Laravel deployment, SwiftUI and AWS. Written down mostly so I can find them again.
Create Custom mouse cursours(pointers) for your ubuntu
1. Open the document that contains your artwork and prepare it for conversion. Save a copy in the same folder; using a copy will let you start over…
Howto: Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows on RAID 10
If you choose to dual boot and run both Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista, you run the risk of losing your data when a hard drive dies. To…
Make Ubuntu remember the applications you had open when you last logged out
Start from wherever you left offYou can make Ubuntu remember the applications you had open when you last logged out, so that when you log back in again…
HP printer Installation Wizard for your Linux ( Boss,Debian,Fedora, ubuntu, suse .. )
Now get the driver for your HP printer from here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install_wizard/index.htmlSelect your distro, version, Printer Type & Model.At the bottom of this post you can see…
Increase the system wide sound (volume) in your linux (ubuntu etc..)
Here is another trick to increase the sound (soft volume) in Ubuntu Linux, this time system-wide.1. Edit your /etc/asound.conf file.On your terminal type$ sudo gedit /etc/asound.conf2. Paste the…
Browse Internet faster in Linux with Ziproxy
Ziproxy is forwarding, non-caching, compressing HTTP proxy server.Basically it squeezes images by converting them to lower quality JPEGs or JPEG 2000 and compresses (gzip) HTML and other text-like…
Increase MPlayer’s volume to 300% (linux ubuntu etc..)
You can increase your MPlayer's soft volume to 300% by just typing this simple command at terminal:mplayer -softvol -softvol-max 300 'file_name.avi'and replace file_name.avi with the video file name…
Keyboard shortcuts that you can use within terminal
You can use keyboard shortcuts and other command line tricks to make entering commands easier and faster. You might already know about the ‘tab’ key which completes partial…
awk: Find and Replace text
Syntax awk 'Program' Input-File1 Input-File2 ... awk -f PROGRAM-FILE Input-File1 Input-File2 ...If no Input-File is specified then `awk' applies the Program to "standard input", (piped output of some…
Dock applications
Avant Window Manager, Cairo Dock, and Wbar are dock-like applications for Ubuntu Linux. A dock represents running programs as icons at the bottom of the screen (as is…
Convert PDF files to JPEG, TIFF and more..
Use ImageMagic's convert program to convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.To install…
KernelCheck: kernel compiling process as easy as the click of a button
KernelCheck is a graphical user interface program designed to make the kernel-compiling process as easy as the click of a button. A kernel is the base of any…