Tips – Tricks
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How to tweak and optimize SSD for Ubuntu, Linux Mint
I have been using Intel 520 SSD180GB on my Dell Inspiron 11z-1121 laptop for a while and get great speed. However, if you want to tweak and optimize your SSD for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian or any linux distribution to make your SSD run even faster and live longer, here how I do my ubuntu ssd tweak. Note: this article will help both…
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How to display hidden startup application in Ubuntu and Linux Mint
If you installed some programs on Ubuntu or Linux Mint, for some reason you decided to uninstall a program or some of them. Sometimes you have problems with those uninstalled programs, they somehow are still in the start up. Means a portions of those uninstalled programs are not cleaned out from your system yet. Some uninstalled programs still load when…
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How to change mac address on ubuntu
You can change the Network Card Mac Address on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via GUI (graphic cal user interface) by going to the networking indicator on the top or bottom and select “Edit connection” to configure or create a new connection. Next click “Add” and give a name to the new connection you want to create with the new spoofed…
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How to change the default OS in an Ubuntu and Windows GRUB dual boot setup
Even though Linux is a great Operation System, but sometimes there are reasons for us to keep Windows in your computer system. Valve Introduces Steam OS a while ago to support Linux gamers to access and play games in Linux better and easier, but there are many great games aren’t available on Linux yet. Itunes for Apple iPhone/iPod isn’t Linux friendly. For…
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How to install, config and secure openssh server
OpenSSH provides end-to-end encrypted replacement of applications such as telnet, rlogin, and ftp. Unlike these legacy applications, OpenSSH never passes anything (including username and password) over the wire in unencrypted form, and provides host authentication, to verify that you really are talking to the system that you think you are and that no one else can take over that session. Currently…
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How to fix slow performance ubuntu 13.04 running in virtualbox
Having very slow perform when running Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 in virtualbox? It’s because Ubuntu can’t use graphics card for acceleration, ubuntu uses CPU for rendering graphics trough LLVMpipe. It makes running ubuntu in virualbox really slow. To check if your Ubuntu 12.10 guest is using 3D acceleration /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p You should see something like this Not software rendered: no…
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How to install truecrypt on ubuntu
Trucrypt can create an encrypted volume and a hidden volume within a file. Files can be copied to and from a mounted TrueCrypt volume just like they are copied to/from any normal disk. Install from a ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install truecrypt To remove it sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa Or install…
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How to install mod_rewrite on Ubuntu
mod_rewrite will not be isntalled by default when you install apache web server and php on Ubuntu. To use mod_rewrite on ubuntu you can use the the following command in the terminal # a2enmod rewrite Restart apache2 server # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart you can use the following sample .htaccess file <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}…
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How to update and upgrade with fastest mirror from the command line
If you want to update and upgrade your sources.list file with the fastest servers from the command line in a fresh Ubuntu Server install, it’s quite easy with the GUI, but it doesn’t seem to be a simple way to do it from from the command line. You can us deb mirror to have the best mirror picked for you…
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How to install nginx by compiling source
Nginx is an open source, fast, light weight and highly customable web server that is similar to Apache. Unfortunately configuring and setting him up is not that easy compared to Apache. nginx is both web server and reverse proxy server. Modules can not be loaded later via a config file like Apache modules, they must be compiled into the Nginx binary.…