How to send a broadcast message on Ubuntu-based distros
Sometimes we need to notify another users connected by SSH in same server with a simple message like when we use ‘halt‘ […]
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Associating JNLP files on Gnome 3
On Gnome 3, the support for mimetypes is more better than compared with old Gnome 2. Now we have a mimetype […]
How to fix “/root/.gvfs: Permission denied”
Sometimes after many kernel upgrades, Ubuntu based distros can throws a frequently permission error message about ‘/root/.gvfs’ in lots of […]
Adding Desktop support to Gnome 3 based environments
On Gnome 3 based environments or KDE, the Java Desktop support doesn’t work. How it is an older Java feature, you need […]
Tip: recover your USB disks with live images inside
Sometimes we need to use a USB disk to record a linux image, and often we’ll this disc to other […]
Tip: coping to multiple targets by prefix
If you need to copy one folder to multiples targets using him relative name, you can use xargs for echo command: […]
Setup a Jetty 7 service for Debians or CentOS
Recently I changed Apache Tomcat 7.x by Jetty 7.6.11 to test and production VMs. Incredibly, the start-up time passed of 8 […]
Restoring Grub after Windows installations
If you, like me, installed a M$ Windows after Ubuntu installation, you’ll need to restore your Grub loader. To fix […]
Setup a Gitlab with Apache2 routing at Ubuntu server 12.10
After a lot of bugs, errors, despair, etc…I’m finally finished Gitlab installation at my VM with Ubuntu Server 12.10. The default wizard provided by […]
Remmina – An open solution for remote access for Linux
With you want a good app to RDP, VNC, SSH and SFTP access and, also ‘for free!’, you have Remmina. Remmina is […]