The programmers behind gnome-terminal seem to have changed something to do with the way ctrl-c works. Now if you want to cancel a program that has the focus of the terminal and you hit ctrl-c then nothing will happen. That’s because the gnome terminal is trying to copy text to the clipboard - [...]
Spotify is a great application that lets you listen to any music they have (there’s an incredible amount on there) with the odd, almost unnoticable, advert thrown in to pay for the service. It works on windows or mac, but there is no native binaries for linux. Thankfully spotify for windows works under [...]
Just had to make a few changes to a website I own that means changing the same text in lots of files. Linux has lots of powerful tools to enable you to make this kind of change over lots of files over many directories very easily. The command is:
find . -type f | [...]
In linux if you have a laptop with a trackpad just below the keyboard sometimes you can be typing away and then suddenly you touch the trackpad/touchpad and find your cursor appears elsewhere so you have to stop typing and put the cursor back in the right place. Its a bit of a pain [...]
One of the things you can do to speed up browsing and general internet activity is to create a local DNS cache. A DNS is a Domain Name Server and its purpose is to convert domain names to IP addresses. Every time you type in a domain name your computer has to ask [...]
