Vista Incapable Stickers (Designed for)

Posted by on November 16, 2007 No comments | This post has 1,052 views.

iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface

Posted by on November 16, 2007 No comments | This post has 613 views.

iftop does for network usage what top does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts.
More info here.

Install Firefox Add-ons for all Users

Posted by on November 12, 2007 1 comment | This post has 2,189 views.

It is possible to install Firefox add-ons for all users that use a computer instead of installing them for every user separately. This is helpful if you are the computer guy in the family for instance and want everyone […] Continue Reading…

Install Nodoka (Fedora theme) on Ubuntu

Posted by on November 12, 2007 1 comment | This post has 1,065 views.

1. Install build-essential and libgtk2.0-dev packages:

2. Download Nodoka GTK+ engine 0.6 from here.

3. Extract tarball package:

4. Now go to gtk-nodoka-engine-0.6 directory:

5. Configure:

6. Make:

7. Install:

Install theme

1. Get Nodoka theme 0.3.2 from here.
Then execute command in terminal:

2. Copy the Nodoka folder […] Continue Reading…

Qps Visual Process Manager

Posted by on November 11, 2007 No comments | This post has 966 views.

Qps is a visual process manager, an X11 version of “top” or “ps” that displays processes in a window and lets you sort and manipulate them.
Install it on Ubuntu using the following command:
sudo apt-get install qps
Screenshot:

phpIP Management

Posted by on November 6, 2007 No comments | This post has 538 views.

phpIP Management is a complete IPv4 IPAM (IP address management) suite, built to handle the complexity of managing today’s IP address space. phpIP Management was built to scale and address the full lifecycle of IP address space using techniques […] Continue Reading…

Play videos within *.rar files without unpacking/extracting them in Ubuntu

Posted by on September 25, 2007 No comments | This post has 590 views.

If you have downloaded some video and it’s packed in multi-volume archive, you can play the file without unpacking.
This is how you do it in Ubuntu. It should work fine on any linux distribution.
You wil need “unrar” and “vlc” […] Continue Reading…

Clean up Ubuntu!

Posted by on September 21, 2007 No comments | This post has 741 views.

Clean up Ubuntu!
How to clean up your Ubuntu.

01. Getting rid of Residual Config packages

In Synaptic Package Manger, there is a built-in feature that gets rid of old
Residual Config packages. Residual Config packages are usually dependency
packages that are left behind […] Continue Reading…

Rebuilding the font cache

Posted by on September 21, 2007 1 comment | This post has 724 views.

If you install a new font in linux, you need to rebuild the fonts cache:
sudo fc-cache -f -v

How-To create a MySQL database and set privileges to a user

Posted by on September 19, 2007 No comments | This post has 517 views.

MySQL is a widely spread SQL database management system mainly used on LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) projects.
In order to be able to use a database, one needs to create: a new database, give access permission to the database server to a […] Continue Reading…