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Monday, September 1st, 2008
While browsing for a solution for Firefox’s slow connection “bug”, I found a more “global” solution in Ubuntu. In short, the global solution is to blacklist IPV6.
You can do this simply by adding the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist:
Friday, June 27th, 2008
I’m inches away from shoving my fist through my laptop screen! I don’t know how something like this could happen, but Evolution, the Mail Client I’ve switched to, has somehow mixed my email messages up. This is a real pain in the neck because while there was a solution for fixing it up by moving the files into a new folder so that they will be in sync again, it doesn’t fix the emails that I have received in the past few days - and these were the most important ones!
With this, I’ve decided to ditch Evolution. Such a pity, I liked how it worked and all that, but this is the second time this has happened. Evolution is out, good old faithful email workhorse Thunderbird is back in action.
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Number pad not working in Ubuntu? I feel your pain. After an upgrade to Hardy, my numberpad stopped working in Ubuntu Linux. I decided to look around in the Keyboard preferences and found my answer. I found that mousekeys was enabled. To get the use of my num pad back, all I had to do was disable mousekeys. More…
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Here’s a quick tip on disabling the touchpad on the Ubuntu Linux distro. It’s been bugging me for a while now that I have to use a non-gnome native solution to disabling my touchpad qsynaptics written in QT.
For those who are impatient and just want the quick instructions, I recommend that you install synclient, and issue a synclient TouchPadOff=1 usually SHMConfig is already on and this would be enough - in addition, synclient is usually installed by default (it is in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon).
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Well, to be “correct” the title of this should have been “how to add your key to the list of authorized public keys on a remote or local linux machine”, but being a newbie like myself, I would not have known to search for it. If I wanted to find out about logging in automatically to a remote machine using a generated public key, I myself would have used “Passwordless SSH” - so there you go.
To get started, I’ll assume that you have OpenSSH set up (it’s setup by default… well usually) and that your remote machine has OpenSSH-server set up.
If not, then do the following on the remote machine:
Monday, February 18th, 2008
I was surprised that there was no built in way of adding multiple files to a SVN repository. I did a quick search and it seems that there is “one easy way” - execute the following piped command line from a Terminal window.
I could have sworn that I came across an easier way of doing this without resorting to doing the above.
More…
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
This week, I’d like to talk about YeahConsole, an alternative to yakuake, or a more “native yakuake” for xubuntu and ubuntu. You could also look at it as a lighter terminal emulator wrapper for those who do not really like installing extra kde packages just to use yakuake.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
When I first moved to linux I had become addicted to keeping my distro updated and so I found myself typing and retyping
At least once a day. Having read about shell scripts, I thought I’d try my hand at putting this into a shell script which, if you don’t already know, is linux’ more powerful answer to the Windows batch file.
So that’s what I did, and here’s how I did it.