You can find these on the Internet and there are plenty more. I will mention them here mostly because of my need to have them centralized someplace. 1. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and at the bottom of the file add on 2 new lines: vm.swappiness=15 and vm.vfs_cache_pressure …
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How to send mail from the command line
Stumbled upon this on an internet website: echo "The mail message" | /usr/bin/mail -s “The subject” user@example.com
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It's already old news, but I'm glad it's being done.
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If your keyboard lacks visual lock indicators, especially for Caps Lock function, you can use a small hack to have a notification whenever the Caps Lock key is pressed. Here are the basics:Have a shell script execute each time Caps Lock key is pressed. Have the shell script query …
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I set up this domain a while ago and I preferred to use lighttpd as web server. Why? Maybe for personal reasons: it was used on my NSLU2 and I found it pretty straightforward to configure. At the beginning I set it up to setup both ctrl-alt-delete.ro and www …
read moreUpgrading from Xubuntu 14.04.5 LTS to Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Now that Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS is out since a couple of months I have started to perform a pilot upgrade in order to sort out any possible issue when it will be time to migrate the other PCs in the house. Especially my wife's laptop is subject to …
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