Archive for the “linux tips” category

How To Fix Songbird 1.1.2 Crash At Start On Ubuntu 8.10

4Milinda3rd Jun 2009linux, linux tips, ubuntu

When you try to start Songbird(in my case version 1.1.2) on Ubuntu 8.10 and if you have libvsual-0.4-plugins installed in you system it More »

How To Improve Ubuntu Desktop Performance

0Milinda29th Apr 2009linux, linux tips, ubuntu

I think most of us who use Firefox on Linux (in this case Ubuntu) had bad performance experiences when we run it with More »

Quickly Share Your Files Over The Network in Linux

1Milinda27th Mar 2009linux, linux tips

The Python Way Open the Terminal Go to directory you that you want share Then run the command ‘python -m SimpleHTTPServer’ Now you More »

Updating Ubuntu Time Zone Configuration Using Terminal

1Milinda22nd Mar 2009linux tips, ubuntu

Using the command line, you can use "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" to re-configure the time zone settings. Open a terminal window by going to Applications>Accessories>Terminal More »

Deadly Linux Commands

0Milinda21st Nov 2008linux tips, news

If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can More »

Linux Directory to an ISO

0Milinda14th Nov 2008linux, linux tips

If you want to backup any of your directories in Linux file system, you can use following command. Replace LABEL and directory to More »

PulseAudio Flooding LAN with Multicast Packets

0Milinda14th Nov 2008linux, linux tips

If you enable Multicast/RTP Sender and set the option ‘send audio from local speakers’ in above PulseAudio configuration window, it will flood the More »

inotify – Linux File System Activity Monitoring

0Milinda10th Nov 2008c programming, linux, linux tips, php, programming, python, ruby

inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem which monitors Linux file system operations, such as read, write, create and delete. It was included in More »

How to Fix NTFS Mount Error on Ubuntu

11Milinda4th Nov 2008linux tips, ubuntu

Sometimes when you plug your external hard drives formatted using NTFS into Ubuntu, system gives following error: Most of the times cause for More »

apt and dpkg beyond the basic use of installing programs

0Milinda7th Oct 2008linux, linux tips

When I start to reading Ubuntu packaging guide, I found this interesting things which can do using apt and dpkg. apt-cache dump: lists More »