If you ever manage to damage your ubuntu install so badly that it won't boot (as I recently did when trying to remove the gnome GUI) then boot from a LiveCD and then open up a terminal.
Type the following…
Ubuntu Chroot I recently tried installing a .deb packagae I had made by converting an rpm. Synaptic package manager however errored and since then won't open. Every time I started synaptic I was getting this error:
The package…
Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manger rpm dpkg One easy command to retrieve all drive UUIDs.
ls -lF…
Ubuntu UUID The usual reason for not being able to update the scripts is that your permissions are wrong in your Firefox folder. Your Grease Monkey scripts will be in your firefox folder. The default place for this is (please…
Ubuntu Firefox Linux Permissions Greasemonkey Installation on Ubuntu 9.04
Filip Brcic is kindly providing Ubuntu packages for zfs-fuse.
To install zfs-fuse add the Filip Brcic's launchpad repo to a source list.
sudo nano…
Ubuntu ZFS By Default Ubuntu will move data in RAM onto the swap file/partition on the hard disk long before it runs out of memory. It will pick data that isn't accessed often but this can still be an annoying slow down on the…
Ubuntu Virtual Memory Swap Space RAM