On one of the posts that gathered tips, which can help to improve computer skills, especially those regarding programming, was written that a good thing is to buy an ebook reader, so I bought Nook Simple Touch. I find on the Internet many books, articles or documents worth reading, I have some PDFs on my [...]
My laptop has two graphics cards. First, an Intel integrated video card, second Nvidia GeForce GT330M. When I had installed Ubuntu and used it as my primary OS I had mostly problems with the display output setup. On Ubuntu 11.10 I could switch the display output configuration for the Intel card without rebooting or the [...]
I found a tip on a meme site, that allows to read a saved password in the Browser without going to Browser’s settings and checking the saved passwords. In Chrome you can go to the settings and click show password, don’t know how it is in other Browsers. But to the point, when you save [...]
I am watching Hak5 episodes from recent season. On one episode there were mentioned three laws of robotics, which I find hilarious: 1. Drink all the booze. 2. Hack all the things. 3. Kill all the humans.
After the overheat problem on Windows 7 I remembered why I liked the Linux operating system. When installed and running and when you don’t change anything, like configurations of services and applications, it runs always the same. By the same I mean that there is no problem such as the system getting old and slow. [...]
When I was using Ubuntu or other Linux OS on my Laptop, I forgot about problems with overheating and sudden power off. This problem came up today, I was sitting in front of my computer and it suddenly power off brutally. I wasn’t doing much. I was watching a video in VLC player, playing Settlers [...]
Today Ubuntu 12.04 LTS has arrived. I’ve switched back to Windows 7 operating system as my main OS. I don’t want to reboot into Linux whenever I need to check something or to work on Linux a little bit. Instead of this I decided that I will use a virtual machine for this task. I [...]
Two days ago my cellphone started to eat the battery very fast. I’ve got a Samsung Galaxy Ace, a smartphone with Android 2.3.x on board. I’ve bought it new maybe five months ago, the battery was new. The battery usually lasted for two to three days, in extreme cases it was like four. Two days [...]
Recently I’ve got so stuck, that I can’t focus on anything. I am doing many things at once. It’s shouldn’t even called ‘doing things’, it’s more like touching and right away leaving the job. I don’t know when and how I’ve got so unmotivated, but fortunately I realized it soon enough. I noticed, that I [...]
I knew the day would come, the day on which the Linux guy in me will stop to fight. Recently I got to a point, that the development environment doesn’t matter. I was more like trying to learn develop application or other software on a Linux box. I was working mainly on Ubuntu Linux. On [...]