Archive for February, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx: Best and most beautiful theme ever IMO!
Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Dragos.
I never like to spend time on finding themes for my system, because I know how addictive and easy is to waste time with it. Though, I can’t stand working on a system with an ugly, and old-fashioned GUI style. So yesterday I have decided it is time to change the old Human theme with [...]
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How To: Restore desktop icons in Ubuntu when Nautilus crashes
Posted on 14. Feb, 2010 by Dragos.
For some reasons, it happens that all my desktop icons disappear. My previous solution was to logout and login again to my account, but with some thinking I have figured out that Nautilus is responsive for my desktop layout (Gnome also, but files and folders are taken from Nautilus). So when Nautilus crashes, or fails [...]
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How to: Make a USB Pendrive Bootable with Ubuntu
Posted on 14. Feb, 2010 by Dragos.
You’ll need a bootable USB pendrive more likely to boot from an operating system installe don the USB flash drive, or to run some recovery software. In Ubuntu, making a drive bootable is the easiest task ever, thanks to a software called Disk Utility. To start the Disk Utility, go to System > Administration > [...]
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How To: Install Portable Linux Ubuntu on a bootable USB Flash Drive from SUN VirtualBox
Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by Dragos.
Recently I have got a shiny and beautiful Chrome finished, shiny Transcend 8GB USB flash drive. What did I first think to do with it? Put Ubuntu on it, of course There are many ways to create a live USB drive carrying an operating system like Ubuntu, but the method I will describe further is [...]
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SQLite, MySQL, PHP: Ternary operator (IF() statement) in MySQL and SQLite
Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by Dragos.
While working on a proxy checker tool for one of my projects, I was struggling on how to execute a conditional query on my SQLite database to update a column only if its value is greater than 0 (it would be pointless in my case to let the script update the column with negative values). [...]