Archive for category: Linux Hacks

/ January 2, 2012 07:00

All about Ubuntu Unity lens and scopes (part 2)

One of Unity’s main features is the Dash. The Dash allows the user to quickly search for information either locally (installed applications, recent files, bookmarks, etc) or remotely (Twitter, Google Docs, etc). To take advantage of this quick search feature, Dash uses one or more Lenses, each one of them being individually responsible for providing one category for this purpose.

/ January 1, 2012 23:59

How to install and optimize Steam in Linux

Page 1: What is Steam It’s an undenial fact that cloud services are getting in our life. Day by day, more and more people trust their data to cloud services as to control them from any place in the world.  Online hard disks, online databases, online networks, are all of them connected together, compatible with the latest technology smartphones, like iPhone and

/ December 29, 2011 03:08

How to install or remove PPA in Ubuntu

The best way to install any PPA in Ubuntu is via the terminal. Yeah, yeah, I know that we live in 21th first century; yet doing this via terminal always does works. After all, the process has been simplified into one single command — that’s all. No Fear! But first, let me ask you WHY should you bother youself about

/ December 27, 2011 20:04

All about Ubuntu Unity lens and scopes (part 1)

Ahem… Are you ready to play with Lens? One of Unity’s main features is the Dash. The Dash allows the user to quickly search for information both locally (installed applications, recent files, bookmarks, etc) and remotely (Twitter, Google Docs, etc). The Dash achieves this by having one or more Lenses that each are responsible for providing one category of search results for

/ July 26, 2011 22:39

How to install JDownloader in Fedora 15

First of all you have to download and install JRE. Login as root (su -) and type: yum install jre or yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk After this you have to download the JDownloader at http://94.23.204.158/jd_unix_0_9.sh. Then run the shell script as normal user… sh jd_unix_0_9.sh … and the installer will start immediately. Take a look at the screenshots bellow:   To

/ July 23, 2011 22:30

How to enable NTFS support on RHEL 6

Issue How to enable NTFS support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ? Environment Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Fix/Solution  Enable EPEL. Open the teriminal, log in as root “su - ” and then run “rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/<RHEL version>/<arch>/epel-release-<version>.noarch.rpm ” . For example, I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, x86.64 architecture so I typed: