How to Install Nvidia Video Drivers In 10.04 Lucid Lynx

1. Open your favorite terminal (ie. Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and uninstall any and all nvidia components installed.

$ sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

2. Next we need to blacklist “nouveau”. Do so by adding the following into /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf with your favorite text editor.

$ sudo blacklist nouvea

3. Install the latest official stable driver from the

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How do I disable the ping response?

Usually a ping is used to check if a machine is up and to check the network status.

It is a small network packet sent to the machine. If the machine is up, an answer will be sent. The time needed to get the answer is called ping time or round-trip time.

The ping response from an IP indicates the machine is up.

Unfortunately this can be used to quickly scan an IP-range for reachable hosts.

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How To create RPM from Source

This is for the Redhat, SuSE and CentOS user out there. Sometimes when you try to search for rpm packages, the only thing that you find is the source file. You create rpm file using this source file:

1. save the source file(usually in tar.gz or tar.bz2 format)
2. extract the files-> tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz or tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2
3. open the folder of the extracted file and find .spec

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How to Force fsck (Filesystem check) on next boot

If you want to force fsck on the next boot, just create a file called /forcefsck . If this file is present, then during next boot - the fsck is forced.

# touch /forcefsck

Now reboot the machine and when it comes up, fsck will be forced.

# reboot

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HOWTO setup Squid Proxy & DansGuardian Internet Content Filter

For Ubuntu
Installing Apache
$ sudo aptitude install apache2Setting a Static IP Address
Now make sure that you have a static IP address
$ sudo vi /etc/network/interfacesAnd change the following (bold) to match your network
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface

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Browse Internet faster in Linux with Ziproxy

Ziproxy is forwarding, non-caching, compressing HTTP proxy server.
Basically it squeezes images by converting them to lower quality JPEGs or JPEG 2000 and compresses (gzip) HTML and other text-like data.
It also provides other features such as: HTML/JS/CSS optimization, preemptive hostname resolution, transparent proxying and more.

Ziproxy is an option when dealing with low-bandwidth cases like:

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Check your unread messages in Gmail, from terminal

$ curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | perl -ne 'print "\t" if //; print "$2\n" if /<(title|name)>(.*)<\/\1>/;'


replace username with your gmail username.

This command will promt for your password, enter it and view your unread in your gmail account .

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