I’ve never understood the purpose of these shutdown timers which you also find on Apple’s Mac OS X systems. I guess the general point is to give you time to complete what your doing before the system restarts. But, that begs the question, why did ask for a shutdown if you weren’t ready? Its understandable [...]
We all know and love Ubuntu. Its the GNU/Linux distribution that seems to be the most popular these days, and for good reason. It allows new users to rarely lay eyes on anything resembling a command-line while not “dumbing it down” for more experienced users. All-around, Ubuntu seems to be turning into the de facto [...]
We all love SSH+Screen+Irssi for our IRC’ing setup, but, it gets annoying having to open up a Terminal window, manually type in the ssh command to connect to the remove server, logging in with our username and password, and re-launching the screen session all the time. So, I came up with a more automated way [...]
With Ubuntu 10.04 just around the corner, Canonical has announced some new layouts and themes that has seem to be widely welcome by the community. However, there has been one issue that has drove many users to forums, and that is the new placement of the Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons on the left side [...]
