Linux folks may know about a great piece of software called gParted, the Gnome Partition Editor. While booted into Linux, gParted works great for managing partitions on a hard drive. Windows users don’t have any good (read free) utilities like this, and the built-in Windows partition manager leaves much to be desired.
gParted Live is a [...]
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Partition a Hard Drive Using a gParted Live CD
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Banning IPs in Ubuntu
October 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Last Friday I was subject to a barrage of spam on this site - somewhere between 100 and 150 comments came in that were spam (prior to that I’d had 300 spams since May). Akismet caught every single one of those comments, but it was still a pain because I still had to trudge through [...]
Launchy Comes to Linux
July 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Launchy is a quick way to launch applications in Windows, and now it has made its way over to the Linux world. Launchy can be installed from source or as a .deb. Launchy depends on the libqt4 libraries, so be sure to install them first. If you try installing from the .deb, [...]
Ubuntu-based Mac Theme
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m pretty intrigued by the new Macs simply because of the looks of the OS. I’m not willing, however, to fork over all the money that comes with owning a bona-fide Macintosh. So instead, I skinned Ubuntu to look like Mac OSX. I found the tutorial over at Make Tech Easier, and [...]
Featured Linux App: PCMan FM
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments
PCMan File Manager is a fast, lightweight file manager for Linux. It’s based on Nautilus, Konqueror, Firefox, and many other programs. Its main use is on machines that have limited resources and cannot dedicate much to a file manager.
PCMan supports a wide array of features, such as tabbed browsing, volume management through HAL, [...]
Featured Linux App: YaKuake
July 9th, 2008 · No Comments
YaKuake stands for Yet Another Kuake KDE terminal emulator. The website is pretty lame (doesn’t look like it’s been updated in 3 years), but the application itself is pretty handy. YaKuake can be hidden and recalled by a user-defined hotkey. Users can specify how large they want the window to be, where [...]
Featured Linux App: Terminator
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Terminator is a terminal emulator aimed at providing a useful way to arrange multiple terminals into a single window. Terminator’s approach is to allow the user to create multiple terminals in a grid, rather than on tabs. You can split the window vertically or horizontally any number of times, and resize each terminal [...]
Handy Nautilus Tips/Tricks
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
There’s a boatload of things you can do with GNOME’s file browser, Nautilus. Some of my favorite tricks are listed below.
Remote File Management
When I’m using Windows, I always turn to WinSCP for my GUI SCP needs. When I use Linux, there is no WinSCP. Lo and behold, you can just type ssh://user@host:/path/to/dir [...]
Installing Adobe AIR for Linux
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments
AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a cross-platform runtime environment for building web-based applications that can be deployed as desktop apps. AIR for Linux is currently in the alpha stages, so it’s got a ways to go before it’s officially released. I’ve been using it a little, and posted about it in my Twitter [...]
