One of the much touted features of Android 2.2 Froyo is the ability to connect the phone to your computer through USB and allow the computer to use your phone’s internet connection. This practice it commonly known as tethering. I’m not sure about other mobile carriers in the US, but Verizon modifies/disables this feature in …
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For years the keyboard shortcuts in the GNOME Desktop Manager have been Print Screen to take a shot of the whole screen and Alt + Print Screen to take a shot of the active window. (See the documentation here.) Something happened in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat that breaks the functionality to take screenshots of the …
Continue reading Fix The GNOME Screenshot Shortcut in Ubuntu 10.10I became a father this past June. If you’re a regular reader of my site, you’ve probably noticed my decrease in posting frequency since then. Much of the time that used to be spent tinkering with Linux is now spent changing diapers, buying diapers, feeding my daughter, etc.
Continue reading Dear Linux Users, Kimberly-Clark Doesn’t Want Your BusinessThe most popular post on this site is the one showing how to install a LAMP server on Ubuntu. Once you’re done developing your websites on your computer, you may want to remove the LAMP server from your Ubuntu installation. Actually, you probably want to leave the Linux part and only remove the AMP part, …
Continue reading Remove LAMP in UbuntuA while back I wrote a post on how to remove old kernels from your Ubuntu system. While that process works just fine, it is a four step process. One person who read that post left a comment with a nice command line one-liner that removes all but the currently running kernel. And while that …
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