To find out more about your system’s temperature, install acpi. Then do a simple acpi -V to get a listing similar to this one: Battery 0: Full, 100%Battery 0: design capacity 7800 mAh, last full capacity 4988 mAh = 63%Adapter 0: on-lineThermal 0: ok, 63.5 degrees CThermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical… Read More »
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: sudo dpkg –get-selections > package_list.txt Save the text file on a thumb drive,… Read More »
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 and modifying the Logo=1 value into Logo=0
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 above to look for network.http.pipelining and double click on it to set it’s value to True.4. Create a… Read More »