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Set default gnome terminal size in Lucid Lynx

cviorel — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:28:03 +0000

Use these commands to change the default gnome terminal size: gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_size_columns --type integer 160 gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/default_size_rows --type integer 50

XMLStarlet: command line XML toolkit

cviorel — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:43:54 +0000

XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands. This set of command line utilities [...]

Vacuum your Firefox 3

cviorel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:03:29 +0000

This tip will hopefully speed up your Firefox 3 by optimizing it’s database. Firefox stores your browsing data using SQLite – self contained, small footprint database. Having database store your browsing data has one drawback, you have to optimize the database from time to time to get rid of old, deleted data, re-index the columns [...]

Turn off or limit the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu

cviorel — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:08:57 +0000

If you want to turn off the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu, all you have to do is create a .gtkrc file in your home directory. touch $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 Then add gtk-recent-files-max-age=0 to this file. echo 'gtk-recent-files-max-age=0' | tee -a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 This is documented here. This will also work in any other linux distribution running Gnome. [...]

Ubuntu One coming to Windows

cviorel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:54:48 +0000

At PyCon 2010, Ubuntu One development team will focus on helping Ubuntu users who also use a Windows box. This is great news! Source.

Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2

cviorel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:57:33 +0000

Skype just released Skype for Linux 2.1 beta2 aka “Talking Screens”. Chats are faster, UI supports switching styles on the fly, and audio is a lot better than before. You can download it here. What’s new in this version: – Screen sharing – Quote a message in chat – Localized time formats – Support for [...]

avast! Version 5.0

cviorel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:20:16 +0000

Avast just released version 5.0 of their product. You will notice the new user interface and the new scanning engine. Free Antivirus 5.0 includes a spyware detection engine to protect you from identity theft as well as viruses. Read more about this release here.

Disable splash screen in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

cviorel — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:51:09 +0000

You can disable the splash screen and instead view details about your boot process by following the next steps: 1. Edit grub sudo vi /etc/default/grub 2. Locate the following line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and remove quiet and splash. After that, the line should look like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" 3. Save and exit. :wq 4. Now update the [...]

Karmic Koala Beta on ThinkPad T61 (continued)

cviorel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:39:45 +0000

After the latest updates, enabling touchpad on/off key (fn-f8) is now working. There are some annoying gdm random restarts without a trace in the logs. I suspect it’s the nvidia proprietary driver and I hope it will be fixed soon. Here is a better approach to enable the Active Protection System in your ThinkPad: # [...]

Search and remove duplicate files

cviorel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:19:10 +0000

Here a small piece of code which will search for the duplicates in the path you supply. It will generate a new file which contains the commands for deleting those duplicates. Make sure you double check the resulting file! The script requires that you have fdupes installed. Install it in Ubuntu/Debian by running the following [...]