Introduction If you were using Ubuntu for some time, you might have noticed that Ubuntu Dash from Unity is working quite slow. We can disable on-line search or a few other elements, but it’s still very slow. If we want to have fast search, we can use external software like synapse. Synapse Synapse is searching really fast and we don’t have to wait a few seconds like in Ubuntu Dash or disable some search options....
Sometimes we need to run specific program with a concrete version of JVM. We can also work with Java 7, but we want to try Java 8. In such cases, we can have installed both Java 7 and 8 on our system and easily switch between them. In order to show current java version, we can simply type: java -version in terminal. On my computer I received the following response:...
I recently found an article about Best Useful Indicators Collection for Ubuntu. Indicators are very useful feature of the Ubuntu and Unity. Ubuntu has some default indicators, but we can add new indicators if we want to. Mentioned article contains list of many indicators, but personally I prefer and use only a few of them. Here are my favorites: Multi Load indicator Nice thing. This indicator monitors system resources. E.g. usage of the processor, RAM, disk and network....
In this article, I’ll describe Ubuntu software for common users, which I personally use and which could be helpful on daily basis. Ubuntu software dedicated to programmers AKA developers will be described in separate article. Chrome In my opinion, it’s currently the best web browser. We can download, unpack and install it, with the following commands: sudo apt-get install libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7 wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable\_current\_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb Skype Maybe it’s not the best, but one of the most known messengers and lot of people use it....
Description of the problem Recently, after installing Linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my computer, I encountered strange problem during the system boot. Before system launched, I received the following message: After that, I typed: exit and system started normally, but this error occurred every time after reboot, so I decided to fix it. Fixing the problem Attempt #1 First, I tried to change rootdelay as error message said. I opened file /etc/default/grub I found there the following line:...