Stable Archlinux: Stop overheating your notebook: It is getting hotter and hotter and it is necessary to find ways to stay cool in the summer heat. Especially for notebooks....
Friday, June 29, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Calise Sets The Screen Backlight Based On Ambient Brightness ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
webupd8.org - Calise (Camera Light Sensor) is an application that uses your computer's camera as a light sensor for obtaining the ambient brightness and then calculates and sets the correct backlight according t...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Five reasons I would preffer KDE over Unity
As we all know, Canonical officially has stopped maintaining and funding Kubuntu.
However, this act did not stop the users get install KDE on their Ubuntu (or better, just install Kubuntu). Despite I'm usually a Unity fan, here is how I did choose to install KDE too.
1. Unity window management...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Ubuntu tool for fixing wrong F10 behavior on terminal
I used to get the terminal in my Ubuntu open all the time. There are so many things to do or manage via ter
English: Midnight Commander with default colors in GNOME Terminal on Ubuntu Linux. Norsk (bokmål)‬: Midnight commander. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
minal rather file-manager or some application,...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
An unofficial Gtk# 3.0 build for Ubuntu
Gtk Sharp (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Do you know already Banshee, or Pinta, or (of course) Docky. They are all built with two superb technologies - Mono C# and Gtk binding - so called Gtk#.
Logo of Docky. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I know there were so many disputes about Mono and it's future,...
Monday, June 11, 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 tip: booting to text mode (run level 3) and no X
Ubuntu is usually very stable (especially 12.04 LTS) and can boots on almost every one machine. But sometimes, there are cases when video driver crashed or not detected at all, or something other happened and X fails to start. This is the time you need to boot to text mode or so called run level...
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Meet SpeedCrunch - Qt based calculator for your needs
I'm a GNOME fan and my primary DE is GNOME or .... perhaps Unity. Recently I tried KDE on my fresh Ubuntu 12.04 and guess what... I really missed gcalc (Gnome calculator). The calculator shipped with KDE is very simple, ugly and has'nt a feature I really appreciate - complex (or not so) math...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Ubuntu performance trick for slow machines
If you have old PC/Laptop or low memory machine and want to install Ubuntu, here is how to increase overall performance. The trick is to install zRam which increase the performance by make use of more ram instead of slow swap disk .
zRam was previously called compcache and create compressed block device...
