HowTo - Part 5

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How Do I Check In [Off the Grid] in FourSquare

posted on June 6, 2010 in HowTo, Web 2.0 with 1 Comment

Wonder how your friends checkin in “Off The Grid” in FourSquare? Simple, when you check in using your mobile device make sure all share options are not selected. Don’t share with your friends, don’t post to twitter and don’t post to FB. That’s it. Tell me if it works for you.

Firefox slow on Ubuntu 10.04

posted on May 6, 2010 in Firefox, HowTo, Mozilla with 0 Comments

If your Firefox is sluggish on on Ubuntu 10.04 this might help. Fire up Firefox and type “about:config” in the URL bar. That will bring up the config page. Search for the lines below and change them accordingly to reflect the changes below. – network.http.pipelining > Make it True – network.http.pipelining.maxrequests > Make it 8 [...]

How to install Adobe AIR on Fedora 12

posted on April 28, 2010 in fedora, HowTo, Linux with 1 Comment

1. Pull up a console and su to root. [danesh@jackal ~]$ su – 2. Grab the latest vesion of Adobe AIR from Adobe’s download page. [root@jackal ~]# wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 3. Make the .bin file executable by using the chmod command. [root@jackal ~]# chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin 4. Execute the .bin file. [root@jackal ~]# ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Follow the [...]

Install Google Chrome on Fedora 12

posted on April 17, 2010 in fedora, google, HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

1. create the repo file. “vi /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo” and add the following lines into the file. [google] name=Google – i386 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub [google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 2. Do a “yum list google-chrome-*” to check if the google-chrome is available for install. [root@dexter ~]# yum list google-chrome-* ………. ……. google-chrome-beta.i386 5.0.342.9-43360 google google-chrome-unstable.i386 5.0.375.9-44625 [...]

Sort files by size

posted on March 31, 2010 in HowTo, Linux with 0 Comments

Here’s how to sort files by size in Linux. Standard; ls -lhS Reverse; ls -lhSr Options used; -l –> print long listing -h –> print human readable sizes -S –> sort by file size -r –> reverse order Output; [root@kmon01 log]# ls -lhS total 70M -rw-r–r– 1 root root 36M Mar 31 11:28 messages -rw-r–r– [...]

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