May, 2009
Speed Up Firefox
I love Break.com, much better than other video clip sites, although not that many clips get posted, but damn they are funny. However in Firefox on Linux/Ubuntu is loads bloody slow. Mainly because of Flash issue, but what is Firefox could open more pipeline to a website??
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Ubuntu – Making It Faster
I like Ubuntu.. much better than XP, Vista and 7… it is much more clean OS. But, lets face it, I need it for everyday use, I do not need some features and I would like it to be a little faster. So, how do we make this happen? I Google’d and found Ubuntu Hack [...]
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Ubuntu – NTFS Support (NTFS-3G)
I needed some data from my other harddrive in my laptop, my work harddrive, but the harddrive is NTFS formatted and this is something that again is not natively supported. I Google’d and found that NTFS-3G offers the best NTFS support, both for read and write. However, I am not planning to do any writing [...]
Tags: Linux, NTFS, NTFS-3G, Ubuntu
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SUDO: CD: Command not found
I was trying to delete a remnant folder from trying to mount my work harddrive using NTFS-3G, but the folder it left behind in /media/System caused me to not to be able to re-mount the harddrive later on. So, I tried to delete it, but got the first error “Permission Denied”, then I tried with [...]
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Ubuntu – Archive Manager – Add Rar/Unrar Support
I use rar-files pretty frequently, and I found that the built in Archive Manager in Ubuntu does not support rar-files (both creation and extraction) out of the box. For the more experienced, here is the quick guide to make is work: Open a Terminal > Enter the command “sudo apt-get install rar unrar” For the [...]
Tags: Linux, rar unrar, Ubuntu
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IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Linux Guide
Found a very nice wiki for Thinkpad users wanting to do the big switch to Linux. Okay, Ubuntu almost works like a charm, but there are still things that need fixing and other distros that need more support: ThinkWiki.com and here it the dedicated page for the T60
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VirtualBox – File Sharing (not seeing workgroup computers)
Preface: So, now after having install Ubuntu 9.04 and seeing how great this release is, I still run into the issue, that some of my preferred apps are Windows only. Therefor I decided to setup a virtual machine running XP When wanting to run VM’s (virtual machines) on Linux, there is not much other choice [...]
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IBM T60 – Ubuntu 9.04
So… with Ubuntu 9.04 out, I really wanted to make the switch-over. I already been running Ubuntu, the old Red Hat, Fedora Core, SuSE, Debian and various other distros in the past, but I really like Ubuntu. I got hold of a IBM T60 ThinkPad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter, so I could easily [...]
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Artisteer – Great Application
I tried Artisteer a fully wysiwyg template maker, not only for WordPress, but other CRM’s too, like Joomla. The current theme, is made using Artisteer and only in 10 minutes. SUPER easy… Check it out here: http://www.artisteer.com/
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Wrong Callcenter To Use
When outsourcing, this would be the wrong callcenter to use.
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