Enable TraceMonkey in Firefox 3.1

Posted by jf on November 17, 2008

Hack to enable TraceMonkey in Firefox 3.1 (all platforms)

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Get a shell under Gnome with two clicks

Posted by jf on November 5, 2008

There is a great article on the net, about adding a Gnome context menu to open a shell prompt from inside Nautilus. For those of us who always work on the command line, this is important. Instead of duplicating the code and article content (which is long), I simply link to it here.

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Fix the sound level bug in Ubuntu 7.10 – Gutsy

Posted by admin on October 22, 2007

When installing Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy) on some Intel-based laptops sound boards, there may be an issue with the sound level being too low. The following was received from an email, and fixed my problem: ==================== My problem was solved by adding: # fix for the sound level on Intel Chipsets options snd-hda-intel model=auto as [...]

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