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
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How to install OpenTyrian in Ubuntu Jaunty
OpenTyrian is a project aimed at bringing the Tyrian game to other platforms. Since the source code was released and the official Tyrian data files made available in 2004, the game started to show up from Linux to iPhones. Here’s how to compile the source from scratch so you can get OpenTyrian running in Ubuntu… Read More »
Disable the Terminal bell in Jaunty
It can be irritating sometimes. The Terminal “beep” sound. When you try to auto-complete a command with the Tab button you can hear it and you can never find enough time to set it off. Here’s how: Open up Gnome TerminalGo to Edit > Profile PreferencesUncheck the Terminal bell option. …and you’re done 🙂
Kill processes faster with PKILL
Instead of kill or killall you can use pkill to faster terminate a process in Linux. pkill pidgin will search for any instance of Pidgin among the currently running processes and kill them all.