I’ve explained how to activate a LVM Logical Volume before but never talked too much about LVM itself. Here is a brief introduction.
I’ve been play[……]
Author: Andrea
How to run a system command in background from PHP
If you are at the command line (eg: bash) and want a command to run in background you simply add an “&” at the end of the command, eg:
sleep 10 &[......]
jQuery shorthand for the document ready wrapper function
If you use jQuery you know that, if you want the DOM to be ready before firing a jQuery/javascript function, you need to wrap your code in the “docume[……]
Re-open last tab/tabs closed on Google Chrome/Chromium
Sometimes I close tabs by mistake and I never remember the shortcut to re-open them again.
I’m sure after this I will remember it… :-D
Ctrl+Shif[......]
Install NX server/client on Ubuntu Lucid
My favourite NX server is Freenx.
FreeNX is a GPL implementation of the NX server/client that allows you to graphically access your machine over the[……]
Free 3GB SpiderOak account – (Dropbox alternative)
SpidearOak gives you 2GB to start with. If you want to start with 3GB instead use this link.
Keep reading if you want to find out more.
So, first[……]
How to install Firefox 5 on Ubuntu Lucid
The Firefox version bound with Ubuntu Lucid is still the 3.6.
It’s stable but definitely not the fastest browser I’ve ever tried and, these days, wit[……]
How to fix GRUB 2 with Ubuntu live cd
Sometimes happens to “break” the GRUB and make our computer unbootable or, anyway, not booting the way we want it to.
Usually this happens when we te[……]
Mount Windows share on Linux
Sometimes I still have to deal with Windows. :-/
This time it’s an office shared disk/device.
I was able to mount it automatically but only root cou[……]
Linux: what is partition UUID and how to use it
UUID stands for Universally Unique Identifier and is used to univocally identify a partition.
This is more reliable than /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* since i[……]