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How to remove all files generated by an extracted tar archive

December 24th, 2009 No comments

Often I use tar files downloaded from the internet, sometimes these files don't include a directory containing all other files and directories, so it's very tedious removing all files generated by the extraction, but I can use the following command to remove all the files generated:

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AspireOne wifi led with ubuntu 9.04

December 20th, 2009 No comments

If, on your AspireOne 110 with Ubuntu 9.04, you kincannot see the wifi led blinking you can execute the following commands:

gg1@piccoletto:~$ sudo -s

[sudo] password for gg1: 

root@piccoletto:~#  apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty

Just wait for the completion of the last command then reboot the AspireOne.
 
Now the wifi led should work.
 
gg1
 

Aspire One fan control with Ubuntu Linux

December 12th, 2009 No comments

Hi all,

Using xargs to parallelize and speed up jobs.

December 8th, 2009 No comments

Often we look for new way to boost up our work, so we write a lot of code to perform jobs at high speed.
Sometimes the right way is the old way, specially if we need to do repetitive jobs. To do this kind of jobs we can use the xargs command, this command used in pipe with other commands can automate our jobs.
For example if we want to remove all C files from a directory and from all subdirectory recursively we can do the following:

November 2009 – Statistics updated

December 7th, 2009 No comments

Last month statistics has been updated,

go to growth rate page and to OS & Browser's war page to see them.

Last month the grouth rate has increased significantly, but the most important changes is on OS & Browser's war, the transition between Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.x seems to be finished. Now the marketshare of Firefox 3.5 is 40% against the 16% of Firefox 3.x.

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