Most computers these days come with a myriad of sensors to monitor the temperature of your computer. These sensors are generally located on the processor and the motherboard, and you might also have sensors on your video card. On […] Continue Reading…
Enabling Temperature Sensors in Ubuntu
Posted by cviorel
on April 4, 2008
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My experience with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Beta
Posted by cviorel
on April 3, 2008
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After a few tests with the new beta from Ubuntu, I decided to write some of my thoughts about this release.
Please note that this is a BETA release, has many unresolved bugs and needs to be polished before the […] Continue Reading…
Slow response on connecting to ProFTPD server (slow login)
Posted by cviorel
on March 27, 2008
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When you experience slow connection responses (login takes a long time), try disabling reverse dns lookups.
Edit “/etc/proftpd.conf” and change directive:
UseReverseDNS on
into
UseReverseDNS off
If this doesn’t work out try adding or changing the directive (must be turned off):
IdentLookups off
XMMS, Audacious, BMP equalizer presets
Posted by cviorel
on March 4, 2008
4 comments | This post has 1,393 views.
When using XMMS, Audacious or BMP on Linux, some of you miss the equalizer presets from Winamp.
This is how you can get them in your linux distribution.
Write a shell script or just run these commands in your terminal:
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#!/bin/bash wget http://www.xmms.org/misc/winamp_presets.gz gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.xmms/eq.preset gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.config/audacious/eq.preset gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.bmp/eq.preset |
The script […] Continue Reading…
HOWTO make DVD and CD .iso images using dd or cat in Linux
Posted by cviorel
on March 4, 2008
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Please note that making security backups of your DVD/CD:s may be illegal in your country.
for the purpose of making these backups, the programs you need are standard, *NIX programs, and it is a safe bet that you wont need […] Continue Reading…
Ubuntu brainstorm launched!
Posted by cviorel
on February 29, 2008
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Ubuntu now has its own Brainstorm website where people can add their ideas and vote for their favorites.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
Unp
Posted by cviorel
on February 20, 2008
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Unp is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs, chooses the right one(s) automatically and extracts one or more files in one go.
Instalation:
sudo apt-get install […] Continue Reading…
Get System Information Using the Terminal
Posted by cviorel
on February 19, 2008
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Troubleshooting, upgrading, or just curious? Find out what’s in your system without opening the case. Using these Linux command line tools, you can get details about your hardware and distribution.
I’ve tested these commands in Ubuntu 7.10, but they should […] Continue Reading…
Set Drivel to Post to Your WordPress Blog
Posted by cviorel
on February 12, 2008
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Drivel is a nice blog editor for Gnome. To install it on Ubuntu, run this in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install drivel
Now you need to configure Drivel to connect to your blog. Go to Applications -> Internet. Select Drivel Journal […] Continue Reading…