Ubuntu
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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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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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Intel 520 ssd 180gb in Dell 1121 with Ubuntu
I have my intel 520 ssd 180GB a year ago and installed in Dell 11z-1121 laptop. Speed much faster computer to the original mechanical hard drive came with the laptop. I have done lots of ssd tweaks for xubuntu 12.04 installed on my Dell Inspiron 11z-1121 laptop. I didn’t really do any benchmark until now. For anyone who wonder what is the…
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How to install GUI on Ubuntu and Linux Mint
You have Ubuntu Server which does not come with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) or desktop environment, you have slow performance problem with your current GUI? Or you simply want to change your current desktop environment to a diffrent one, I will show you how to install GUI on Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, or any Ubuntu based distributions, and Linux Mint.…
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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.…