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GrNotify: Your Google Reader Feeds Notification

by nazham on October 28th, 2008

I’m addicted to my rss feeds. I go over the feeds for tech news, current affairs, friends blogs, and many more. However, I don’t want to go to www.google.com/reader each time want to find out what’s new. This is where desktop applications that provides Google Reader notifications comes in.
For Windows: We have Google Reader Notifier [...]

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Cleaning up your Ubuntu Filesystem using FSlint

by nazham on October 23rd, 2008

FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted/junk/lint files on your Ubuntu filesystem. For example, one form of unwanted files it finds is duplicate files, bad names, temporary files, files with bad symlinks, empty directory, and others.
To install:
sudo apt-get install fslint
Using Fslint:
If you want to open goto Applications—>System Tools—>FSlint
Screenshot:

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Ubuntu Dust Theme

by nazham on October 8th, 2008

I have just installed a new sexy theme on my Ubuntu Hardy, replacing the default brown and orange theme that hated by a lot of people.
The Dust Theme.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme
Dust is a concept for a new, refreshing look for Ubuntu. The idea was to take the defining aesthetic elements of Ubuntu and remix it into something [...]

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Getting Dell XPS Trackpad to work on Ubuntu Hardy

by nazham on October 8th, 2008

I had trouble getting my Dell XPS M1530 track pad/touch pad to work when I updated the BIOS from A07 to A09. However, it is fairly an easy fix.
Edit your ‘/boot/grub/menu.lst’ file with:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then add:
i8042.nomux=1
at the end of the ‘kernel’ line. It may look like below:

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=446ea0c-57b1-4112-939c-
3f1d74be9f5f ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic [...]

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Accessing Remote Drive in Linux via SSHFS

by nazham on September 24th, 2008

There may be a case where you may want to access a certain directory or drive on a remote machine, and mount it to your local PC. For example, I have a headless CentOS box running Apache where all of my web application codes are sitting. Editing those web application codes are a nightmare when [...]

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