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Nov/09

Sync Mozilla Thunderbird Using Dropbox

Filed Under Linux, Networking, Software, Windows at 16th November 2009 20:28 by

Overview I have had a Dropbox account for a while now but never really used it till now. There have been really good tricks and uses to Dropbox posted on the Internet and I finally decided to try my hands … Continue reading →

14

Nov/09

Ubuntu 9.10 Grub2 No Timeout

Filed Under Linux at 14th November 2009 12:11 by

I have recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and found that the timeout doesn’t seem to be working. Grub’s timeout feature allows for automatically boot up into a selected OS after a specified amount of time. By default it’s 10 seconds. … Continue reading →

02

Nov/09

Check GUI Program Is Running In Linux

Filed Under Linux at 2nd November 2009 0:01 by

Overview I have create a bash script to: Check if the program’s process is running If so just quit the script If not start up the program Using this script and crontab it allows the script to be ran every … Continue reading →

31

Oct/09

My Performance Tweaks To Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 31st October 2009 0:01 by

Now that I have a “spare” Linux box I thought I’d try and improve the speed on the box. If it goes kaput I learn and re-install. So here are the ones I found that worked: hdparm This is the … Continue reading →

19

Oct/09

VirtualBox With Ubuntu Quick Review

Filed Under Linux, Review, Software, Windows at 19th October 2009 0:01 by

Overview I found Sun’s VirtualBox and thought I’d try it out. As everything is going virtual and having used it in Mac I thought it was time to step it up in Windows so I can start running things like … Continue reading →

01

Oct/09

Ubuntu No Monitor Defaults To 800×600

Filed Under Linux at 1st October 2009 0:01 by

Overview I recently moved my Long standing Linux box running Ubuntu 8.04 as a headless server which needs X running because of Mythtv. Once it was in place I remoted into the box running Remote Desktop on Linux and VNC … Continue reading →

29

Sep/09

Dropbox Case Conflict

Filed Under Linux at 29th September 2009 0:15 by

I was setting up Dropbox but it doesn’t seem to handle folders with the same name as a file in Ubuntu.

25

Sep/09

Samba GUI Config

Filed Under Linux at 25th September 2009 0:01 by

I found a handy little tool that allows users to configure Samba without going through the command line. To install on Ubuntu type the following: sudo apt-get install system-config-samba The app can be access in System > Administration > Samba … Continue reading →