This is an easy and simple solution based on the article by Umair, first posted on http://www.noobslab.com. it’s common that, if not you, one of your familiar or friends forget his login password, and if this is the only account available on the system this means that he’s usually locked out from his computer, luckily [...]
Conquest Of Elysium 3 – Fantasy Game Comes to Linux
A fantasy-based strategy game with a decidedly medieval flavor, Conquest of Elysium 3 is an excellent diversion for those on the Linux platform, although it is available for the PC and Mac as well. With a host of colorful main characters to choose from and a beguiling strategy-based gameplay, Conquest of Elysium 3 offers pretty [...]
Resize pdfs from the command line in Linux
On many occasions, you might want to resize a PDF to send it by Email or put it on the web, today I had more than 50MB of PDF to be put as attachment of an article, and that was really too much. Using Linux you just need the program ghostscript to do everything and [...]
How to measure the speed of SATA devices from the command line on Linux
SATA is the most common bus interface on desktops and on many servers, so it’s important that you know some basic concepts about it, from the always informative Wikipedia: Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial [...]
FSgamer, a software to improve Game performance under Linux
More and more games are published for Linux and so it’s becoming more important to have a good performance with our beloved system, but some of the Desktop Environemnts can really slow down your gaming experience. There is an interesting report about this on Phoronix in the article: Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce, [...]