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Archive for July, 2009

GNOME thumbnails garbled in Nautilus? Fix them.

If by chance your GNOME files are displaying thumbnails that you know aren’t part of the video file or picture they’re supposed to represent, or if Nautilus is showing both thumbnails and icons for the same t[...]


Turn off or limit the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu

If you want to turn off the Recent Documents feature in Ubuntu, all you have to do is create a .gtkrc file in your home directory (if one isn’t already available): touch ~/.gtkrc-2.0 Now paste this line in there: g[...]


How to upgrade an obsolete Ubuntu installation

Do you still have an Ubuntu 7.10 laying around somewhere on a harddrive? You don’t want’to wipe it off and install a fresh Jaunty? or maybe you don’t have a CD-ROM drive and want to upgrade step by step[...]


Flush DNS cache in Linux

If you happened to register a new domain name and you can’t access it, it may be your DNS cache that holds the problem. Here’s how to flush DNS cache in Linux: /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart [...]