Recent versions of Linux use a unique identifier for hard drives in order to make sure they get mounted to the same location all the time. If you’ve looked into your /etc/fstab file for auto mounting drives, then you’re probably already familiar with the long character strings that are used for UUID’s. The question is, …
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If you’ve followed my posts on how to install LAMP on Ubuntu and basic Apache configuration, then you’re probably interested in doing some cross browser testing of the websites you build. Felipe, one of my readers, asked a question on my Apache configuration post about accessing his local websites from a VirtualBox guest OS. Specifically, …
Continue reading Access Your Web Server From a VirtualBox Guest OSIn my last post I showed how you can add your own custom functions to the GNOME file manager with Nautilus Actions. I’ve also shown previously how to batch watermark images with ImageMagick. I’ve made some adjustments to my previous script so that it will automatically scale the watermark to fit the target image.
Continue reading Watermark Images With Nautilus ActionsThe default file manager in the GNOME desktop environment is Nautilus. If you’ve been using GNOME for a while, then you’re probably familiar with Nautilus’ built in Nautilus Scripts function. The Scripts function is great, but there’s an even better way to add functions to Nautilus; with Nautilus Actions.
Continue reading Expand The GNOME File Manager With Nautilus ActionsThere are many different GUI based process monitors available for Linux systems. It seems that each desktop environment or window manager has its own solution. The one common process monitor is the command line terminal based top command. Give it a try. To run top, simply open a terminal window and enter:
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