3rd March 2010
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Applications, cli
So you want to wipe your hard drive clean and reinstall a fresh Ubuntu copy. Before you do that, it might be wise to make a list of currently installed packages and reinstall them in a jiffy afterwards on the new OS:
sud[...]
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23rd October 2009
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Applications
If you for whatever reason dislike OpenOffice.org’s logo or want to gain an extra few seconds of speed while the application loads, you can disable OO.o’s logo by editing the
/etc/openoffice/sofficerc
file an[...]
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29th September 2009
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Applications
We all know Firefox is a memory hog. To speed things up greatly, do the following:
1. Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config.2. Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise“3. Use the search bar [...]
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26th September 2009
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Hardware, Networking
If you wish to change your MAC address in Linux, all you have to do is bring the interface down then use the hw ether switch:
ifconfig eth0 downifconfig eth0 hw ether 02:01:02:03:04:08ifconfig eth0 up
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Tags: MAC address
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