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.
How to add repositories manually in ubuntu
Do this at your own risk. Modify the default Ubuntu sources.list only if you understand what you're doing. Mixing repositories can break your system. For more information see…
Network Monitors for ubuntu: monitor your own system’s network settings
There are two types of network monitors: those that monitor your own system's network settings and those that monitor network traffic. The latter includes security tools that can…
GParted: Partition Manager (editor) for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.
A disk device can be subdivided into one or more partitions. The GParted application enables you to change the partition organization on a disk device while preserving the…
Protect your grub by applying a password to it (grub-md5-crypt is broken)
Maybe you want the user to enter a password in order to boot the Recovery Mode or your secondary OS. You have to set that password in the…
Howto: disable beep sound in Terminal mode
Some of you may be annoyed with the beep sound in terminal.If you want to get rid of that just follow these steps:Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal Terminal…
Howto: do ‘page back’ instead of ‘page up’ when backspace is pressed in Mozilla Firefox
In Firefox, when you press 'Backspace' the default action performed is 'Page up'.You can change this to 'Previous page', just follow this for that: In the adress bar…
ubuntu and Web Publishing
Drupal (Web content publishing) Drupal is the leading open-source website creation and content collaboration tools. A modular approach to website building, from simple out-of-the-box websites to…
How to open files as root user via right click
Follow these steps to open files as root user via right clickgedit $HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/Open\ as\ root Insert the following lines into the new file for uri in…
CrossOver: Your Windows Applications, Seamlessly Integrated On Linux
CrossOver Linux allows you to install many popular Windows productivity applications, plugins and games in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license. CrossOver includes an easy to…
Split ISO image into multiple archives that can later be extracted to the full ISO
Just use the default GNU tools tar, split and cat. There is absolutely no need for any fancy gui tools or software that you have to run in…
How-To: Compile and Install Latest VLC in Debian Lenny
This tutorial will show how to compile and install the latest VLC from source in Debian Lenny in several steps. The current version at the time of writing…
How to Run 32-bit Apps in 64-bit Linux
Most Linux distributions have 64-bit versions for x86_64 processors, such as the AMD Athlon II or the Intel Xeon. Since these distributions maintain their own package repositories, they…