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Manually change Firefox menubar textcolor
I encounter a problem for changing font color in firefox toolbar. I tried change via firefox’s preferences->content->font->color but it failed. Sometimes, a themes will make it hard to view it. Well what has happened is t...
-bash /bin/rm: Argument list too long
Have you ever experienced that you remove command can’t remove anything, its just replies you with error. What happens when all of a sudden your command rm can not remove anymore? What else command you can use to remove? ...
Android ICS 4.0 RC1 on VirtualBox
Android-x86 is a project that provides Android support for x86, making it easy to install it on netbooks or laptops. You can use it like any other Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich device: install applications from the Android Mar...
Integrate Plesk Proftpd with Clamav on CentOS
Plesk or Parallels Plesk Panel is the most complete Web hosting control panel available today. In fact, it’s the only Web hosting panel that includes integrated Web design tools, a SaaS storefront, and fully automated billing...
Network Bandwidth Monitoring Utility
Bandwidth is essential for all of us, if its not enough or over used then it will be a problem. Thats mean you need a network monitoring tools to keep an eye of. There’s a simple tool to diagnose TCP and UDP connection is...
Remmina Remote Desktop Client
Remmina which is Remote Mini Assistant and its a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monit...
Ubuntu Unity Configurator MyUnity 3.0
February, 26 2012 – MyUnity 3.0 is out. MyUnity 3.0 allows users to modify various settings of the Unity interface, including the Launcher, Dash, Panel, font, desktop and now it also supports themes. When everything is ma...
Extra Protection for your WordPress
WordPress, i think mostly of you will know what it is. WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress again is a free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) bas...
New Ubuntu for Android
Canonical has revealed new Ubuntu for Android project that will bring Ubuntu experience to multi core Android phones. Ubuntu for Android provides a full desktop experience, including office software, web browsing, email and med...
Howto Manage Bandwidth Using Trickle
Trickle is a portable application bandwidth shaper lightweight. It can run in collaborative mode “together with trickled” or in stand alone mode. It is a great tool command line based. trickle can be limit application bandw...
Create custom application launcher in Gnome 3
How do you create a custom application launcher in Gnome shell 3? This question had been ask since. Everyone used to be able to right click on the panel and choose ‘Create custom launcher’ in Gnome 2, but that doesn...
First KDE Spark Tablet Announced
Meet ‘Spark’ the KDE powered tablet. This tablet showcases an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with an open content and services market. The tablet features decent hardware: Processor: 1GHz AMLogic AR...
Shell user-theme extension not enabled
Problem: This problem occurred for Fedora 16 (Kernel 3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64), Gnome Shell 3.2.1-2, Gnome Tweak Tool 3.2.1-1 and User Theme Extension 3.2.3-1. You will have a problem on gnome tweak tool’s shell theme can not ...
Google Chrome execv failed: Permission denied
Anyone who can not run or start the chrome browser after the update their fedora? The reason is because the SELinux had been updated and the entry had been set to default. Unfortunately, the chrome sandbox won’t allow it ...
Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem occured and the system can’t recover. Please log out and try again.
Yesterday i had upgrade my fedora 15 to fedora 16. You may upgrade it using preupgrade. It is very simple. Go to your terminal, type in “yum -y update” and then “preupgrade” or “preupgrade-cli̶...
Watch A Text Version of StarWars
haha, this one is not very useful. But it is, however, awesome cool. Watch a text-only version of Star Wars, complete with ASCII animated characters. The code for this is simple: $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl Enjoy the show~
How to increase internet speed in Linux
Do you know that internet speeds in Linux can be increased? Well it does. Open a Terminal and type the following: $ sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf (ubuntu) $ vi /etc/sysctl.conf (Fedora) (please note fedora user must be as root to ...
How to bypass file sharing sites block in Malaysia?
The easiest and simplest way is don’t use DNS IP address from Malaysia ISP. Instead of using the DNS servers provided by your ISPs, try to use FREE DNS available out there. The famous one is Google’s DNS servers – 8.8.8.8...
Upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 with ease
I’ve been running Ubuntu for few years and have been satisfied with the experience. Less than a week ago, the newest stable Ubuntu 11.10 version (Oneiric Ocelot) was announced. To my surprise, I didn’t have to go to fetch U...
Unity 3D isn’t working?
Unity 3d isn’t working for you? How to find out if your computer can run unity 3d without using compiz? It is a bug or something? Well, its because you’re using the wrong drivers or because of your computer’s ...
Howto Block SSH Brute Force attack
I believes many server administrators had suffer this issue before. Those people does some serious SSH brute force attacks, keep on trying to find a login to the your server. I had some post regarding securing ssh and applicati...
Forgot your Windows password?
You’ve forgotten your Windows password or you have been given a Windows system that you need to repair and don’t have access to the admin password. Do not worry, it couldn’t be easier with a Linux system, and ...
Linux Gamers
live.linuX-gamers.net is a Linux live distribution: “boot ‘n play”. The idea is for you to be able to carry a decent amount of high-quality Linux games with you where ever you go for purposes of demonstration,...
E-commerce sites based on open source code under attack
Networkworld : “About 100,000 Web pages for e-commerce sites based on the open source OS Commerce software have been compromised with malware through a mass iFrame injection attack, according to security firm Armorize. Th...
CentOS 6
After a long wait, CentOS 6 has finally been released since last month July 11. “We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 6.0 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 6.0 is based on the upstream r...
Diskspace not Enough? Howto find large file?
Do you ever suffer diskspace not enough error? If you had, what you should be doing next? How to find the large file? Well, there is no single command to do it, but there is a way. With the help of find command will do the tric...
The Browser Race analysis
Unixmen: “Gradually all the data from our desktops is moving into the cloud on the web. We seek to accomplish most of our day-to-day jobs (and rather trivial jobs) from preparation of document, presentations and spreadshe...
How to create a simple invoice using Libre Office
UbuntuManual: “This is the first in a series of tutorials on how to use a great piece of open source software – LibreOffice. In this series I will show you how to make useful document templates for your small or hopeful...
Howto Upgrade Thunderbird 5 on Ubuntu
Following the footstep of Firefox, Thunderbird had been jumping forward updates from Thunderbird 3.1 to Thunderbird 5. It has more responsive and faster to start up and use, and its based on the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine. Even...
Booting Android SDK and AVD Manager Emulator Quickly
I think by now you know about Android is the fact that anyone is free to develop applications for the platform. Google provide Android SDKs for Windows, Linux and MacOS, and part of the SDK is an emulator that lets you run the ...
Fedora 13 End of Life
As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life for updates and support. No further updates, including security updates, will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on June 12th. Fedora 14 wi...
Fedora 15 failed to update?
Did you experiences that you can not updates for your fedora 15? When you get the error message, and the error is “could not add package update for fedora-release-rawhide-15-3(noarch)updates: fedora-release-rawhide-15-3.n...
Chkconfig Tricks and Tips
chkconfig provides a simple command-line tool for maintaining the /etc/rc.d directory hierarchy by relieving system administrators of the task of directly manipulating the numerous symbolic links in those directories. Normally ...
Firefox 5 Release
Datamation: “Mozilla today released Firefox 5, three months to the day after Firefox 4 was released. The new Firefox 5 release marks the successful debut of Mozilla’s rapid release process, which iterates new releas...
Howto Install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04
On Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, we all tried Unity before. How about Gnome Shell 3 on Ubuntu? It is possible? But it is possible to install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). In the matter of fact it is very simple to do s...
Linux 3 Advances
Linux Planet: “All good things must come to an end, even on the Linux Planet. This past week we were alerted to the demise of Google’s Linux search after years of activity. While one Linux asset is now gone, the fut...
IIS Down To 16%, Apache Touches 65%
Digitizor: “According to Netctaft’s Web Server Survey, the percentage of websites using Microsoft’s IIS is rapidly decreasing. Netcraft’s survey covers a total of more than 340 million websites. The perc...
Gnome Tweak Tool User Theme Extension
Last time I post about Gnome Tweak Tool and how it can simplify your Fedora 15 Gnome Shell 3. If you installed it, sure you will notice why the user theme extension is not enable right? Have you run it before? Well, never mind....
Fedora 15 Network Connection Problem, The System Network Services are not Compatible with this version
After updated to Fedora 15, you notice that your network connection had been disabled or permanently gone. Then you try to activate it on your system setting’s network but with no luck. What should you do now? You canR...
World IPv6 Day Kicks Off
Enterprise Networking Planet: “At 5 PM PT/ 8 PM ET on June 7th, World IPv6 Day will start. It’s an event that will put hundreds of mainstream websites on IPv6 for the first time, as the world prepares for the transi...
