How to Speed Up Your Solid-State Drive by Re-Aligning Its Partitions If you’ve migrated your operating system from a mechanical hard drive to a solid-state drive, the partitions may not be properly aligned. This could result in slower performance, which you can fix by re-aligning them. What Is Partition Alignment, and Why Should I Care? A typical […]
My Weather Indicator for Ubuntu is an indicator advanced that allows you to have at hand, the weather situation up two locations in the area of indicators. My Weather Indicator for Ubuntu In the display menu you have the most interesting facts about the current weather situation. Data such as, Temperature Pressure Humidity Thermal sensation […]
There are several tools available to copy and install IMG and ISO files to memory cards and removable storage, but I was looking for something that could easily backup and restore disk image files for my Raspberry Pi, as well as create bootable Linux installation USB drives from ISO’s with OS X as well as […]
Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.” Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients. Install Samba Server in Ubuntu Use the following command to install samba packages sudo apt-get install samba samba-common This will […]
luckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. Its main features are: backup, safety, synchronization, exclude/only include options, allows custom rsync options, remote connections, restore and dry-run operations, scheduling, profiles and command line mode. It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all […]
Nvidia designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming market, as well as system on a chip units (SOCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Nvidia’s primary GPU product line, labeled “GeForce”, is in direct competition with Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD) “Radeon” products. Nvidia expanded its presence in the gaming industry with its handheld […]
About Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. Up to 1.0.40 there was two GUI available: Gnome and KDE 4 (>= 4.1). Starting with 1.1.0 there only one QT GUI. All you have […]
Timeshift RSYNC TimeShift https://launchpad.net/timeshift TimeShift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo […]
IBodging around in the Budgie desktop for the past couple of days I’ve gotten used to the (rather awesome) music player integration in the ‘Raven’ sidebar. Like the Sound Menu you’ve probably used on Ubuntu’s Unity desktop, Raven’s media player controls appear when compatible apps (those that support MPRIS2) are open. So logging in to GNOME […]
Remember the Milk for Linux At the end of last month, without so much as a moo, the popular to-do service Remember The Milk (RTM) introduced a new desktop Linux app. Remember The Milk for Linux joins the company’s herd of desktop and mobile clients, and features the same fresh interface that the web-based task management and to-do service introduced earlier this year. Technically […]
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