Posts in 'Ubuntu'
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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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 [...]
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Ubuntu: How to check hard disk healthiness based on SMART data (Karmic Koala)
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Dragos.
I remember that a good application on Windows was HDD Doctor, which gave a plenitude of useful information about the hard disk status. Now in Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 there is a similar application which shows important information about the status of the hard-disk installed on the system (such as hard disk temperature,model number, total [...]
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OS: RAM difference between Ubuntu x86 (32 bit with physical address) and Ubuntu x64 (64 bit)
Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Dragos.
The first ever version of Ubuntu I have installed on my computer was Hardy Heron 8.04 (x64/64 bit). As time passed and new versions appeared, I have upgraded to the latest version of Intrepid Ibex 8.10. As a web developer, It happens sometimes to run an excessive number of simultaneous applications at a time, which [...]
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Ubuntu: How to upgrade from Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 to Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Dragos.
In order to upgrade your Ubuntu operating system from the 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) version to the latest (but still in beta) version 9.10 (Karmic Koala) you’ll have to open the Run Application window (ALT+F2) and enter update-manager -d in the input field. Hit enter. [ad]You’ll be asked whether you’d like to update to the latest [...]
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Ubuntu hacks: Extend visual effects in compiz. More settings, more fun
Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by Dragos.
If you want to work on a fancy Ubuntu operating system, all you have to do is enable Extra visual effects from Appearance preferences (System->Preferences->Appearance preferences->Visual effects). However, by default you will get only some basic visual effects. To get access to all extra visual effects (including the Compiz Desktop Cube and more), you will [...]