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How to kill processes (application) in console mode

Actually this is my (late) response for my friend yalmove. Sorry friend. To find out what process running in the memory/ computer through console mode is using ps x command. Let say you use ubuntu, type this command in your console #sudo ps x Then you will see lots of processes running. The number in [...]

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squid cache_dir performance

I m using squid in my ubuntu 9.10 server edition. I always try to look for the best configuration for my network. My server spec is Pentium III with 128 MB and 10 GB harddisk. This is the part of the squid configuration in /etc/squid/squid.conf I use. cache_mem 50 MB cache_swap_low 60 cache_swap_high 70 cache_dir [...]

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Evolution-alarm-notify crash ubuntu 9

I got this message on one pc today. “Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information” According to a discussion in bugs.launchpad.net I will try a suggestion posted by a [...]

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vino-server setting

Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04 has application called vino. This is remote desktop application. But it has advance function compare to standard remote desktop that I usually use in System-Preferences-Remote Desktop menu. Vino server could run in the background and put it in rc.local which will be executed every computer start. And it will display ubuntu [...]

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Samba in Lucid Lynx – Ubuntu 10.04

There is a different between samba in Ubuntu 9.10 below with Ubuntu 10.04. Of course the old samba will work in Lucid. But I can’t find /etc/init.d/samba file. As a replacement, Lucid use smbd. So this is how to restart samba #sudo smbd restart The old configuration of samba I use in Ubuntu 9.10 still [...]

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Karmic compile kernel

I read in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile there is a different way for compiling kernel in each version of ubuntu. Today I am interesting to compile Karmic kernel. Because my netbook here can not be shut down. First #sudo apt-get install fakeroot kernel-wedge build-essential makedumpfile kernel-package #sudo apt-get build-dep –no-install-recommends linux-image-$(uname -r) #sudo apt-get source linux-image-$(uname -r) #sudo [...]

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mount error 1

I used to set the mounting on network through ubuntu several time. But manually. This time I will put it into fstab. I did it once before with slackware and it worked. But now in ubuntu 6.10 I failed. There is an error message like this: mount error 1 = Operation not permitted Refer to [...]

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Quickest way to find out Ubuntu version

Like Slackware, Ubuntu also put a file to record what Ubuntu version installed on your computer. This is how to appeal it. Type it in the terminal #cat /etc/issue It will come up with Ubuntu 6.10 /n /l It’s easy, isnt it?

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Canon ip1800 in Karmic Koala Ubuntu 9.10

I have canon ip 1880 still work and need it to be installed on my Karmic machine. As far as I remember in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, there are some things to do to install this printer. Here what I do for Ubuntu 6.10 to 8.10 in my post 1. use cnijfilter-common-2.70-i386.deb 2. but cnijfilter-ip1800-2.70-hardy.deb [...]

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Canon LBP-3050 laser printer in Ubuntu

First time buying laserjet printer in my office is buying Canon LBP-3050. With hope that the printer will be give us much of printing. We can download the driver in Canon website and hope perfectly well in linux. But there’s a trouble. The driver only will not make the printer print. The source I read [...]

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gnome power manager – karmic

My machine configuration is pentium 4 with 256 mb memory, excell motherboard, vga on board with savage chip. When I installed karmic, I received that error. Gnome power manager failed to start cause the karmic won’t log in to gnome desktop. I tried to re-install the power manager package by typing this command : #sudo [...]

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netwatch – internet monitor

Netwatch is one of the bandwidth monitoring tool. Bandwidth in computer networking refers to the data rate supported by a network connection or interface. One most commonly expresses bandwidth in terms of bits per second (bps) (www.ubuntugeek.com). In Ubuntu we can easily install it by : #sudo apt-get install netdiag This is how to use [...]

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