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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). [...]
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Best websites (top stories) on popular social bookmarking services Facebook application/iGoogle gadget
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Dragos.
After getting tired of visiting all those pages on Digg, Reddit,Delicious, Mixx,TweetMeme… until I could finally visit the original link of an interesting story, that took ages and precious time. So I have worked on a script that would do the unpleasant process described above for you, and provide you only the top links that [...]
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eFAX: Beware your credit card! You may not be able to cancel your trial account :(
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Dragos.
Welcome to chat. The session has been accepted. {Craig H.} Hello, Dragos. Welcome to j2 Global online support. I am Craig, your online Live Support Representative. How are you doing today? {Dragos} Hello Craig. Thanks for disconnecting me a few moments ago. {Dragos} I have just checked my credit card statement and it says I [...]
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Facebook: Facebook Ads manager doesn’t work!
Posted on 13. Dec, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve tried all day to ad a new ad on Facebook, but with no success. I’m stuck at the first step, clicking on “Continue” does nothing. Hopefully the Facebook staff will do something about it, cause I really can’t wait promoting my new Facebook app (Parallel Worlds).
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Ubuntu: nVidia card slow? Monitor flickers? Try this fix and boost graphic card performance!
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by Dragos.
Switching from an ATI card to an nVidia one was not so simple, as X was configured to work with an ATI card. What I had to do was to boot in Safe Gnome, download the nVidia drivers to my desktop, then enter the command line screen (pressing CTRL+ALT+F1), delete and reinstall X, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf [...]
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Ubuntu: Karmic Koala 9.10, should I buy you an nVidia or ATI video card?
Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Dragos.
Definitely an nVidia graphic card. Why? Because AMD is very frivolous when it comes to support its legacy video cards. I don’t think that a 3 years old video card should be considered obsolete, and dropped being supported. I am an unlucky ATI card user (Radeon x1950 GT) that runs only on 10% of this [...]