iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface

iftop does for network usage what top does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts.
More info here.

Install Firefox Add-ons for all Users

It is possible to install Firefox add-ons for all users that use a computer instead of installing them for every user separately. This is helpful if you are the computer guy in the family for instance and want everyone […] Continue Reading…

Install Nodoka (Fedora theme) on Ubuntu

1. Install build-essential and libgtk2.0-dev packages:

2. Download Nodoka GTK+ engine 0.6 from here.

3. Extract tarball package:

4. Now go to gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6 directory:

5. Configure:

6. Make:

7. Install:

Install theme

1. Get Nodoka theme 0.3.2 from here.
Then execute command in terminal:

2. Copy the Nodoka folder […] Continue Reading…

Qps Visual Process Manager

Qps is a visual process manager, an X11 version of “top” or “ps” that displays processes in a window and lets you sort and manipulate them.
Install it on Ubuntu using the following command:
sudo apt-get install qps
Screenshot:

phpIP Management

phpIP Management is a complete IPv4 IPAM (IP address management) suite, built to handle the complexity of managing today’s IP address space. phpIP Management was built to scale and address the full lifecycle of IP address space using techniques […] Continue Reading…

Play videos within *.rar files without unpacking/extracting them in Ubuntu

If you have downloaded some video and it’s packed in multi-volume archive, you can play the file without unpacking.
This is how you do it in Ubuntu. It should work fine on any linux distribution.
You wil need “unrar” and “vlc” […] Continue Reading…

Clean up Ubuntu!

Clean up Ubuntu!
How to clean up your Ubuntu.

01. Getting rid of Residual Config packages

In Synaptic Package Manger, there is a built-in feature that gets rid of old
Residual Config packages. Residual Config packages are usually dependency
packages that are left behind […] Continue Reading…

Rebuilding the font cache

If you install a new font in linux, you need to rebuild the fonts cache:
sudo fc-cache -f -v

How-To create a MySQL database and set privileges to a user

MySQL is a widely spread SQL database management system mainly used on LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) projects.
In order to be able to use a database, one needs to create: a new database, give access permission to the database server to a […] Continue Reading…

HOWTO: Create a FTP server with user access (proftpd)

A. The GUI way (for beginners only)

For those who are new to linux and don’t want to use a FTP server without GUI, or just for those who don’t use often their FTP server and wish to set it
quickly […] Continue Reading…