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Find out details about your system’s temperature

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 =[...]


Quickly reinstall your favourite applications in Ubuntu

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[...]


Get rid of OpenOffice.org’s logo in Linux

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[...]


Greatly improve the speed of Firefox 3

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 [...]