Google‘s DNS service is spreading rapidly. It’s time for you to use it. I used it and noticed some great speed changes even though my internet is just a dial up connection. Here is how to set up Google‘s DNS on your Ubuntu Linux.
Open Network Settings (network-admin) by going to System -> Preferences -> Network Connections. Go to your default net connection and click on Edit button.

You will get a window like below :

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If you are working on a project and wants to upload the project to your site, then you have to manually replace all the localhost links with the site url. I created a small Python program that will replace localhost links with your WWW site url.
Here is the Python code :

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
indir = ‘/var/www/mysite‘ #!Folder of your localhost site.
for root, dirs, filenames in os.walk(indir):
 for f in filenames:
  log = open(os.path.join(root, f), ‘r+’)
  f=log.read()  
  n=f.replace("http://localhost", "http://mysite.com")
  log.seek(0)
  log.truncate()
  log.write(n)
  log.close()
print "Successfully Replaced."

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After 16 months of development, Wine version 1.6 has been officially released by the Wine Team. Wine is the Windows Program emulator for Linux and Mac. You can download the source files from here. You can only get the source files now. Binary packages are in the process of being built. If it’s been build you can download the Wine 1.6 version from here.

What’s New ?

1. New User Interface
2. Networking capabilities
3. Support for Windows Transparency
4. Graphics improved
5. JoyStick Installing
6. Mono package for .NET applications support
7. Support of new softwares and games.
8. Improved Input validation
9. Mac Driver
10. Direct3D

and more. Wine Team officially said that the new Wine version more than 10,000 changes. 

SSH is the easiest way to access a remote computer not in graphical interface but in character interface.

ssh [email protected]

ssh [email protected]

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While running a fullscreen app in Wine such as games, you might not get the screen resolution back after you close the app. It’s because Linux won’t automatically change it’s resolution like Windows.

But you could if you run a simple file in terminal. Here is how you could do it.
Create a file named normal.sh in your Desktop with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash
xrandr -s 0

Save it on a place where you can open it easily. Make the file Executable to run it in a terminal. See this post to see how you could make a file executable.

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Executable files are files that can be used to run a program or to do a specific purpose specified in the file. Normally not all files defaultly would be executable in Linux because of security reasons. If all files are defaultly executable then the scripts can do whatever the hell they want to do in your computer. As we call them VIRUSES. This is one of the main reasons why you should use Linux. It’s virus free.

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This simple trick will help you to clear or edit terminal commands you entered in Terminal of Ubuntu.
Open the file /home/user/.bash_history (Replace red text with your username.

To make it simple Go to your home folder and Press CTRL + H. It will show hidden files.
search for the file .bash_history
Edit the file.
You can see all the commands you entered in Terminal.

Remove what you don’t want and save.

You might have know what is App Fog in my previous post. In this tutorial I am going to tell you how to upload your site files to their servers. For that first install Ruby by using this command :

sudo apt-get install ruby

sudo apt-get install gem

sudo gem install af

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