Tips – Tricks
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How to disable bluetooth on ubuntu, xubuntu and linux mint
After upgraded linux kernel to 3.11 on my xubuntu 12.04 LTS laptop, I *feel* my laptop run a bit faster, i want to speed up my laptop even further. I have tweaked my laptop heavily, but have not disabled bluetooth yet (I do not use bluetooth), so now it’s the time to do. To stop bluetooth service $ su - $ service…
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How to upgrade ubuntu 12.04 / 13.04 and linux mint 14 / 15 to linux kernel 3.11
I just upgraded xubuntu 12.04 LTS on my laptop to linux kernel 3.11 (ubuntu 13.10 saucy kernel). Everything seems to be a bit faster, due to some new features in Linux kernel 3.11. What new/hot in linux kernel 3.11 from Linus Torvalds? Zswap was merged for compressed swap caching AMD Radeon DPM Support Low Latency Network Polling KVM/ Xen support for…
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How to disable IPv6 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint
We are running out of IPv4, and IPv4 doesn’t come with any security. IPv6 is coming but IPv6 isn’t ready yet. Somtimes, connections get delay or completely fail until IPv6 is disabled. Systems with IPv6 enabled will prefer IPv6 connections over IPv4. If a system is misconfigured and/or malfunctioning with IPv6, that system will cause connectivity problems. So how to…
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Fedora xfce auto login
How to auto login with fedora xfce? I installed fedora 19 Xfce Spin on virtualbox to test it. Installation goes smoothly, everything is fine until at the login screen. I don’t want to type in username and password every time i turn on fedora virtualbox. Here is how to bypass the login screen with auto login. Open a terminal and…
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Easy way to install VirtualMin
What is VirtualMin? Virtualmin is the most powerful web hosting, web server, or VPS (virtual private server) control panels. There are many paid control panels on the market like Cpanel, Plesk, Ensim…, but VirtualMin is the only that offer for free and VirtualMin works as great as any others. Virtualmin control panels let you control Email POP3 and IMAP Configuration Spam…
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How to find duplicate files using FSLint on linux
If you have lots of pictures, videos, movies, music, documents, or backups, eventually you will end up with duplicate files or directories. To clean up those unwanted files, you can use FSLint. FSlint is a free linux software, FSlint searchs and removes: Duplicate files Problematic filenames Temporary files Bad symlinks Empty directories Nonstripped binaries How to install FSLint on Ubuntu $…
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How to update namecheap dynamic DNS on ubuntu
To update namecheap dynamic DNS on Ubuntu, you will you need to install ddclient. What does ddclient do? Ddclient was first developed in Perl by Paul Burry to update dynamic DNS and has been maintaining by developers via SourceForge project. To install ddclient on Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install ddclient After installed ddclient, you need to config ddclient file $ sudo nano /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf…
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How to check SSD life left on linux
To check ssd life left on a (solid-state drive) ssd, you will need to install the smartmontools package. It contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. For Ubuntu, Mint, or Debian based distributions # apt-get install…
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How to install Nvidia CUDA 5.5 on Ubuntu
What is CUDA? CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) was developed by Nvidia from 2006, it’s a parallel rather than single thread computing programming platform which allows GPUs (graphics processing units) work better and more efficiently. There are more than 300 million GPUs in desktops, notebooks, workstations, even supercomputers support CUDA that help to simulate physics, astronomy, biology programs to run.…