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TL;DR: A list of tweaks and settings that can improve your Ubuntu 18x’s speed A LOT. Reading time: around 40 minutes, so if you don’t have that much time on your hand, you can go read something else. If you’re one of the people who have noticed a significant change in booting speed, shutdown speed,
Icon cache missing on ubuntu / linux mint / peppermint . Here’s how you can easily regenerate your entire icon cache in a few seconds.
TL;DR version: here’s how you can solve the Prestashop installation error “SQL error on query Invalid default value for ‘last_connection_date’”. If you are installing a Prestashop CMS for your e-commerce needs on a server that is configured with a mysql backend with version numbers 5.7, or any of its newer versions, you might get stuck
TL;DR version: here’s how to parse HTML files with PHP hypertext preprocessor on apache 2.4x webserver, and PHP7 on linux In PHP 7, the newest and ever more popular version of the PHP scripting language, the only files that are parsed by default are the ones that have .php, .phtml, or .php3/php4/php5 extensions. I don’t
The site ahrefs.com can purportedly tell any site owner, for prices starting from 99$ / month, who links to them from where, and also provide site owners with other seemingly significant and meaningful data about visitor activity. The problem is, they use software bots to crawl sites, and THOSE BOTS CLICK ON LINKS in your site,
Sometimes it’s good to have a quick .htaccess rules writer for your server / host, to block a larger number of IP addresses from accessing stuff on your site, like spambots, or people (bored kids ?) who try to hack into your site or blog. If you use any kind of statistics plugin on your
TL:DR version: some examples of how some lifewaster hacker-wannabes try to gain unauthorised access to sites and blogs and how you can simply and effectively block them — Obviously, some people have too much time on their hands, and don’t appreciate life enough in order to do something useful with theirs, so they spend hours
The TDE Desktop environment is an extraordinary piece of software that allows one to keep working with the computer as KDE used to look and feel like before the switch or “upgrade” to KDE 3 and before that, and as the project’s maintainers themselves state, with ” … a primary goal of retaining the function
Finally, I can say wholeheartedly, that after having tried and tested very thoroughly, more then 200 linux distributions found on distrowatch.com, I have found the best, fastest, simplest, most complete, most user-friendly, efficient, task-oriented linux distro to date ! Last time when I was so excited and so pleased about anything in computer technology, was
[ TL;DR: Tips and tricks for better thermal management on laptops, to avoid overheating ] Some laptops and notebook/netbook computers have a much better thermal management then others, some are silent and cool better, others make a lot of noise and yet, sometimes overheat. Most people think that in most of the cases in which
UPDATE: See at the end of the article ! I’ve been a Firefox user since its first versions, way back, when the norm for a pretty good computer was a CPU at around 900 mhz and a 20GB HDD was considered huge (around here, in Eastern Europe, most technologies get adopted a bit later 🙂
There are at least 1.980.000 results on google alone, if you search for the phrase “import chrome passwords into firefox”, or “export chrome passwords into firefox”, “export chromium passwords to firefox” or something similar. Yet, after parsing meticulously through at least 30..40 pages/URL found in the search result pages, and having done that time and
If you’d like to change the language of the entire desktop, with menus, and program’s menus all to be displayed in the language of your choice, you can do that very simply on almost any variant of debian with gnome or mate. Since linux mint is a derivative of ubuntu linux, and ubuntu linux is
Because I’ve seen it the stats (yes, I check my stats regularly to learn who’s searching for what and from where, etc. ) that my previous post regarding the possibilities offered by linux, in particular with versions or flavors running the Gnome (or it’s descendant, Mate) desktop, for adding a new keyboard layout to match
Here are the steps you need to take to install Linux Mint Olivia Mate, on a computer or laptop. I’ve installed it this time, on an IBM Thinkpad T43 laptop, but except for some differences that the hardware installation and configuration scripts will detect towards the end of the installation, the process is pretty much
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