Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM

2011-01-08 2 min read Firefox
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Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM, No RAM Disk Required [Firefox Tip] Click here to read Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM, No RAM Disk Required We’ved talked about moving your cache files to a RAM disk to speed things up, but it turns out Firefox has this feature built in. Here’s how to turn it on. More »

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New feature in Gnome/Nautilus

2010-12-05 1 min read Fedora GNOME

One of the things that I never realized that I am missing in Nautilus until they put the feature in was this. When a file is being copied and there is conflict, there should be option to rename the new file being copied. Also, if the file being copied is image then a small preview/thumbnail would be good.

Yesterday while copying some files, suddenly I noticed that this feature is there now. Pretty useful feature to have. Here’s the screen-shot.

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How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

2010-07-23 1 min read Fedora Linux

For those of you who don&#8217;t know about ailurus:

Ailurus is cross-<a class="zem_slink" title="Linux distribution" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution">Linux-distribution <a class="zem_slink" title="GNU General Public License" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License">GPL <a class="zem_slink" title="Computer software" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_software">software, which aims at making Linux easier to use, for newcomers.

And the features include:

Ailurus can …

  • display Linux skills
  • install popular software
  • change <a class="zem_slink" title="GNOME" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME settings
  • display <a class="zem_slink" title="Hardware" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware">hardware information
  • enable some third party repositories#
  • clean apt/yum cache#
  • backup and recover apt/yum status#

the features marked with &#8221;#&#8221; support Ubuntu/Fedora only

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