14th April 2010
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Applications, System, cli
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 =[...]
Tags: acpi, temperature
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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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