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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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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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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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Best Virtual OS software: VirtualBox 3.0.4
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
When you need to quickly run a program which is not supported on your current operating system, most likely you’ll want to install a virtual operating system. Virtual operating system can run simultaneously with other operating systems, so you can easily/efficiently to your work quickly. Let’s say you’re a true Linux adept and need to [...]
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Firefox 3.5: The web is not ready!
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve noticed that some websites still don’t show up correctly in the new Firefox 3.5 (3.5.2-3.5.3). I was looking for some photos on Deviantart, but I couldn’t scroll the page to see all results. On twitter, some buttons don’t work.. sometimes. Google Adwords complains that the new version of the browser is not fully supported. [...]
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Acid3 Test: Best browser performance Opera 10 beta 2. Firefox 3.5.3 and Epiphany 2.26.1 slightly fail
Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
First of all, I am a Ubuntu user, so all tests made by me were performed on a Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope OS. Results may differ a little bit in other operating systems. So, I took the Acid3 Test with three different browsers – Opera 10 beta 2, Firefox 3.5.3 pre and Epiphany 2.26.1 . Note [...]
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Apps: Firefox 3.5 uses less ram than ever! Kudos to Mozilla developers
Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by Dragos.
I’ve switched to Firefox 3.5.3 on Ubuntu from Firefox 3.1 and I was surprised how fast and optimized the new Firefox is. When browsing with several (more than 10) tabs at once with Firefox 3.1, RAM usage went up to 1.3 GB!! That is why I had to upgrade my PC with 2 more GB [...]
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Coding: How to get code suggestions and function completion in Netbeans?
Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by Dragos.
I was struggling myself in finding how to get the code suggestions feature work in Netbeans. I knew it was there and sometimes I accidentally triggered it, but I could never figure out what combination of keys I had to hit in order for the suggestions box to appear. So I decided to open a [...]