Month: October 2009

Recovering from corrupt upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic

I was excited for the Karmic Koala (v. 9.10) which came out yesterday and I happily started the download and kept the computer switched on overnight for the download to complete. When I woke up, surely the download was completed and I went on to install the downloaded packages. Which the installation was taking place,… Continue reading Recovering from corrupt upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic

Killing Xorg, when things get out of control

Today I experienced a rather strange problem in Ubuntu. It crashed. Actually it wasn’t completely crashed, the mouse clicks weren’t working, I couldn’t switch using Alt+Tab, I could only use the program which was on the screen. The panels weren’t working, though the shortcut keys were. Fortunately enough, I had assigned shortcut key to open… Continue reading Killing Xorg, when things get out of control

[How-To] Change default application installation location on windows xp

So, you just want to keep a partition for Windows XP and another partition for all your applications that you install. You can change it in all the installations manually but changing the default location is a much better idea. And there are also some applications which don’t let you change the default path. XP… Continue reading [How-To] Change default application installation location on windows xp

Killing applications in Ubuntu

Well all OSes have bad programs, Linux has it too. Some times they stop responding and unlike windows, they don’t make the whole OS unresponsive. The application alone is unresponsive but you can still use other applications normally. Killing an unresponsive application is fairly easy job in Ubuntu. Bring the unresponsive application to the front,… Continue reading Killing applications in Ubuntu

[HowTo] Optimize Mozilla Firefox for better performance

Firefox is getting very popular lately, mainly due to its customizability. I use firefox as my main browser and use all sorts of addons which help me in web-development. These addons make my firefox hungry but I can’t do without them. So, instead I tweaked around some settings in firefox which made it much responsive… Continue reading [HowTo] Optimize Mozilla Firefox for better performance

Why computer recognizes hard drive size to be less than whats printed on box

Once in a while, everyone must’ve been confused and intrigued about the hard drive sizes. The don’t give what the promise. I still remember when I bought my first 20GB harddisk and was surprised to see only 18.6 GB. I was about to return it back claiming it was damaged when I researched and found… Continue reading Why computer recognizes hard drive size to be less than whats printed on box

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