I was reading through my buddy’s security blog, Security Aegis, and realized that my current security setup in Ubuntu is absolutely terrible – I have a Truecrypt container I dump things into from time to time, and that’s really about it. After recently discovering the Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference, I took [...]
Not having my back/forward keys working in anything in Ubuntu was driving me nuts – in Windows I was absolutely dependent on being able to lazily click the side buttons (even though I use mouse gestures). The first thing I stumbled across seemed simple enough.
hyperq just replaced his InputDevice section with the code below, [...]
I just found out about gconf-editor and have been crawling through here customizing my gnome desktop to my exact specifications – this program lets you do just about anything you can think of to the gnome environment. This evening I just wanted my shortcut keys working again.
Hit <Alt>F2 then type gconf-editor and hit <enter>
Click Apps [...]
Occasionally it’s fun to waste some time shooting your friends and unfortunately Ubuntu just isn’t up to speed when it comes to gaming – so I dual boot into a stripped Vista installation. I’d like to make switching back and forth as quick as possible.
First thing I did was go and get Bootchart, “a tool [...]
Hearing the PC speaker was driving me nuts every time I hit backspace too many times… turn it off this way:
Temporarily:
sudo modprobe -r pcspkr
Permanently:
echo “blacklist pcspkr” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist