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If you miss Firefox 1.5 days, here you have 3 little hacks that will make your day,

Open a new tab with this url, about:config

• Backspace button as Previous Page: browser.backspace_action change value to 0
• No tab scrolling: browser.tabs.tabMinWidth change value to 0
• One close button for all the tabs: browser.tabs.closeButtons change value to 3

I am writing this post from my shine new Ubuntu 7.04 herd 4 x86_64 on my Thinkpad T60 with a Core 2 Duo T5600.
Now i will try to install the kvm module to play around.

P.S.: ATI cards sucks, well in fact they are AMD cards……

All of you may know about the top command line of linux, well there are a lot of similar programs to monitor other type of resources, here we have some of the more useful to me,

iftop
This is a nice one to monitor network usage, more specific bandwidth usage.

Installation:

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17pre3.tar.gz
tar -xvzf iftop-0.17pre3.tar.gz
cd iftop-0.17pre3
./configure && make && make install

You wil need libcap and libcurses but most of the cases they are already installed.

mytop

This program can be quite useful to debug mysql.

Installation:

Install TermReadKey,

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JS/JSTOWE/TermReadKey-2.30.tar.gz
tar -xvzf TermReadKey-2.30.tar.gz
cd TermRead*
perl Makefile.PL
make test && make && make install

Install DBI,

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.48.tar.gz
tar -xvzf DBI-1.48.tar.gz
cd DBI*
perl Makefile.PL
make test && make && make install

Now finally mytop,

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/mytop-1.4.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mytop-1.4.tar.gz
cd mytop*
perl Makefile.PL
make test && make && make install

apachetop

This is a program that uses the logs of apache to monitor it.

Installation:

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.webta.org/apachetop/apachetop-0.12.6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf apachetop-0.12.6.tar.gz
cd apachetop-0.12.6
./configure && make && make install

One of the things that i did not like that much of my linux installation are fonts.

Here it is a quick way to get improve it,

gus@jackdaniels:~$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
dimensions: 1280×1024 pixels (342×271 millimeters)
gus@jackdaniels:~$

gus@jackdaniels:~$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
resolution: 95×96 dots per inch
gus@jackdaniels:~$

Now as i would like 96 DPI fonts, we need to adjust the display size, the equation would be something like this,

1280*25.425/96=338

1024*25.425/96=270

So go and add this line to the Monitor Section on /etc/X11/xorg.conf,

DisplaySize 339 271

Restart Xorg with ctrl+alt+backspace

Now you need to be sure that your Desktop Environment is using the correct DPI, in Gnome go to,
System->Preferences->Fonts

My Tahoma fonts looks nice nicer now, next thing to find: why icons are so big or so small ?