Lately I had a few crashes in Firefox, plus the browser was really slow at some sites. Anyway Chrome for linux is stable at the moment, and even that it is a little buggy (still on beta) it worths a try. To be honest I’ve switched to Chronium(Chrome for linux) to all my pcs as […]
Today I have converted my laptop’s hard disk to ext4 and I wanted to perform a hard disk check just to be sure that everything was ok. As you may know there is a tool called e2fsck that checks hard disks for problems, but this will work best on an unmounted partition so I really […]
Most web developers need a LAMP development server to deploy and test their apps. With Ubuntu – and any other linux – that is very easy. So in Ubuntu you can install a LAMP server just by running this command: sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin This way you have a […]
As Ubuntu is going more into mainstream, many people around the world want to try this great operating system, but not many of them actually want to install it on their hard drives just for a preview or they are just afraid of that as an inexperienced user could possibly harm a system by doing […]
Tilda is a small application that can be used instead of the classic terminal. Bellow are a few reasons that I prefer it from the classic terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) It opens/closes just by pressing the F1 button. Stays always on top, so it is easy to use it with an open firefox. […]
Lately I tried to install Ubuntu 8.10 in my one year old laptop, a Toshiba Satelite A200 (1M4). Everything in the install was very smooth, but yet I had troubles with my Wifi card. I wasn’t sure if the problem was the new network manager or something else, but while I was googling for a […]
