Archive for the ‘Tweaks’ Category.
October 12, 2009, 2:07 pm
In Arch if you have the vga=793 (or whatever size) on your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.list, you may have the Arch Logo at the top of your screen during boot. On vanilla or unmodified kernels, you’ll get a Tux logo. You get one logo per processor.
Example:
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Some don’t like it, and it’s pretty easy to get rid of. Simply do the following:
In /boot/grub/menu.list change
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
to
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=773 logo.nologo
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
December 9, 2008, 1:21 pm
I found a precious little gem quite by accident when I was using Synaptic (the package installer) today.
Continue reading ‘Download and Install the Ubuntu Title Font’ »
September 28, 2008, 12:28 pm
Old hardware? Want a faster boot up? Need to free some system resources? Want snappier applications? This is for you. Note, I wouldn’t suggest doing anything within this if it doesn’t make sense to you.
Continue reading ‘How to make Ubuntu extremely fast’ »
September 8, 2008, 7:38 pm
Do you ever get the feeling that your system is being flooded with a bunch of junk files that you can’t get rid of? I know I do. Well, I’m going to show you a few ways to get rid of most, if not all, of those annoying junk files.
Continue reading ‘Cleanup junk files in Ubuntu’ »
September 8, 2008, 7:29 pm
If you have a dual-core processor or one that supports hyper-threading then concurrent booting allows Linux to take advantage of them. Just open a console and type the following code:
Continue reading ‘Decrease boot time with concurrent booting’ »
September 8, 2008, 7:28 pm
If you have been running Linux systems for some time and you have used applications like ‘top’ to see what’s going on in your machine, then you’ve probably wondered: Where has all my memory gone? You should know that the largest place it is being used in is the disk cache, as the cached memory is free and it can be replaced anytime if a newly started application needs that memory. Linux systems are made like this to use so much memory for disk cache because the RAM is wasted if it is not used and if something needs the same data again, then there is a very good chance to be in the cache memory.
Continue reading ‘Tune your swappiness’ »
September 8, 2008, 7:26 pm
The following tweaks assume that you are using an ext3 filesystem for your Ubuntu OS and they will offer a noticeable performance boost! However, there is also a bad side of them… if you don’t have an UPS and your system will power off accidentally or because of a power loss, YOU WILL LOSE IMPORTANT DATA!
Continue reading ‘Speed up your ext3 file system’ »
September 8, 2008, 2:00 pm
Firefox 3 about:config file is the core configuration file of Firefox. By editing about:config file we can drastically increase performace.
Continue reading ‘About:Config Tweaks to optimize Firefox 3’ »
September 4, 2008, 11:04 am
I hate the internal beep speaker. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Okay, maybe not that much hate, but I really don’t like having it enabled. It beeps anytime the terminal cursor goes in the wrong direction. Or if the sound isn’t working quite right when I’m setting things up. Or if it’s time to put another quarter in the dryer. It’s just a nuisance.
On some machines I’m fine — Dell’s BIOS, for example, sometimes includes the option to mute the darn thing. But on others I’m not so lucky.
Continue reading ‘Blacklist your pc speaker to disable system beeps’ »
