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Tor: Vidalia Tor software exited unexpectedly

With the latest developments in internet censorship I too have been looking for secure alternatives and the Tor project is one of them but unfortunately I had a small problem with Vidalia, the software GUI for Tor. I discovered a solution after some reading and Google-ing. After installing Tor on ubuntu or other Debian based [...]


Fedora Core – virtual hosts httpd

I’ve reinstalled my pc with Fedora Core recently, because of the extended SELinux and more tools that are at my disposal. A problem I always had with ubuntu was the configuration of Apache virtual hosts. Once they where installed I needed to put them into the host file and each time I reconnected to a [...]


Reclaim partial select in firefox

In the windows version of Firefox you can select a single word of your address, in ubuntu it’s been changed and here’s the fix: type: ‘about:config’ in your address-bar and click that you’ll be careful with the settings search for: ‘browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll’ and double click it You don’t have to relaunch Firefox for the browser to [...]


Reclaim Ubuntu firefox backspace key

Firefox and every other browser on windows features a ‘previous page hotkey’, the backspace key alas the fact that firefox on ubuntu isn’t as feature rich, so here a work around: Go to “about:config”, you know to inspect the sqllite db firefox stores everything in. `Filter` for ‘browser.backspace_action’ and change its value to 0 (zero). [...]


Ubuntu just go better

All my coding is done on linux, on the ubuntu distro which isn’t always that nice for portables i might add. Gnome bugs me much for it’s problem to properly control the brightness on my portable but apart from that it’s nice. Now, a team of developers has brought a mac osx like feature to [...]


Ubuntu 10.10 has been released a few day…

Ubuntu 10.10 has been released a few days ago and I found a few nice things to do with it: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/customizing-ubuntu-10-10-with-a-dock-new-icon-theme-effects-global-menu-and-more/ Share on Facebook


Linux kernal map

Linux is a facinating OS but not always transparant to everybody, certainly the kernel has that problem. This linux map will help you figure out the linux kernel and has documentation and everything to it. Kernel Map Share on Facebook