Automounting doesn’t work, I need to mount manually

I don’t why, but automounting in my Ubuntu 9.10 doesn’t work. I couldn’t find any solutions, so I have to mount my usb flash drive manually.

Background processes in linux

Why to add process to background? How to do it, while executing script and when it is already running? Just a few quick examples.

Change default editor in linux

In most situations… default editor in “clean” linux is nano. However… you can always change it.

svn: Can’t convert string from ‘UTF-8′ to native encoding

Yeah, I have this error message. “svn: Can’t convert string from ‘UTF-8′ to native encoding” when I want to do “svn checkout”. Why is that? Because of locales.

Change quality of lots of images by one click :: linux

Did you ever try to change quality of lots of images? If you ever tried to put some images to your website – propably you did. How you can do it? Via Gimp, Photoshop, Paint, isn’t? Sure, you can. However… it takes so much time.

Ubuntu won’t ask for your sudo password anymore

Launch a terminal window and …

Easy resize and rotate images on ubuntu

First…
install nautilus-image-converter

tech link: How to enable the root user account in Ubuntu Linux

from simplehelp.net…

VirtualBox and shared files/directories

VirtualBox is really great!
You don’t need any apps like ie4linux/photoshop on wine anymore.

Video files with Google Picasa app on Linux

(…) Linux’s Google Picasa app can’t manage video files (what a shame…)