Linux: remove unwanted services from the system start-up

Default there are lots of services and programs which are starting to work while system start-up. It’s time to disable these unwanted.

Apt-get package management in ubuntu

Everyone (each ubuntu user) knows how to install new package, search a package or remove one. However not everyone knows how to do something else.

Build firewall on server (ubuntu)

I would like to secure my VPS. That’s why I had to find some more informations about firewalls. The most interesting idea… “firewall” via iptales. However managing iptables is a litlle bit complicated, so I decided to use UFW.

Create first app using Adobe Air on Ubuntu

“Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.” That’s from Wikipedia. Now let create our first application using this technology.

TOra with MySQL on Ubuntu

Yeah, sometimes everybody needs to use graphic SQL editor. For example… if you want to add more advanced triggers to your database.

Can’t see custom letters in menu of Opera browser :: Ubuntu

I just upgraded my Opera browser (I still can’t understand why people use this browser) to version 10.0 on my ubuntu system. I started it and… I can’t see custom letters in menu (letters like ‘ą’, ‘ę’, ‘ł’ from polish alphabet). I had to fix it.

WordPress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php

Sure, you can always install Apache. However… sometimes you can’t… for example: there could be some other web server installed on your port 80. There could be nginx for your python projects already installed (like in my case).

Default Java under Ubuntu

Today… there will be something really easy. How to set default Java under Ubuntu?

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