Here I’m working with my humble Dual Processor, 2 GB RAM running Ubuntu 8.04.1, AMD64 edition. I was talking to a colleague / friend of mine and he told me that he (with his 7 GB RAM on a Mac…
Taking inspiration from earobinson’s top commands, I’ve decided to publish my own list of top 10 commands. Running the following command:
history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn
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Ubuntu is probably the best Linux distribution out there, but sometimes you need to use software that’s only available on Windows. What do you do? Give Wine a chance. As its website states, Wine is a
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If you have Ubuntu with the Compiz effects enabled, it’s pretty easy to control which application windows you want with some transparency. On this post I’ll show you how to set your Pidgin windows with a 90% opacity. Go
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So you want the world to know what cool tunes you are currently listening to on your Ubuntu? Well, perhaps not the whole world, but at least your IM contacts. First thing you need is to be using Pidgin,
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Since I normally need to test different applications (almost all of them built with CakePHP) to make sure they work on different browsers (including IE7), I’ve recently installed VMWare over my Ubuntu Hardy to use Windows
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Trying to prevent myself from another home fiasco, I’ve decided to build a simple script to backup some of my directories. There are a lot of scripts / backup tools out there, but I just wanted to build my…
I should’ve probably entitled this post “Learn from your mistakes”. Yesterday I was getting rid of the Windows partition in favor of a VMWare installation of Windows XP on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) so I decided it was…