For record keeping purposes. I’m sick of having to Google this every single time.
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Some installers don’t come in the usual .deb package, or even .sh. Double clicking them doesn’t work either, although the makers said it’s an installation package.
Steps:
open a Terminal window
navigate to where the .bin file is
issue a chmod a+x filename_of_that_file.bin command
issue a sudo [...]
I learned about this add-on from Lifehacker.
Yey! Firefox finally has that awesome Chrome feature called Pin Tab that shrinks the chosen tab to show the favicon only – saving tab strip real estate. The awesome add-on that makes this possible for Firefox is called Pin Tab (weee!!!).
But, unlike Chrome’s Pin Tab, this one adds a [...]
Avant Window Navigator, or AWN, is a superb dock that can be customized. I used it before then uninstalled it, then installed it again just a few weeks ago to try and make my Ubuntu resemble a Mac-like environment.
Anyway, these steps will teach you how to add a Lock Screen launcher to the AWN dock. [...]
I mentioned how to share files between a WinXP VirtualBox guest and the Ubuntu host using Shared Folders and mapped network drives in this tutorial, but you might be wondering why I didn’t just make a shared folder in Ubuntu and have the WinXP guest access it through the network.
Here’s why – I didn’t do [...]
SQL Explorer, or Eclipse SQL Explorer is a SQL client that allows you to connect to DBMS that supports JDBC connections like MySQL, PostgreSQL and others. This means, that as long as there’s a JDBC connector for a database, SQL Explorer can connect to it.
It’s available as a standalone application, and also as a plugin [...]
