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Fix GNOME Smooth Font Issue in FireFox/IceWeasel

Again after moving in with GNOME and set my system fonts which went cool, my Firefox still looked messy 🙁 But the below tweak is gonna fix it 🙂 Create this or edit ~/.fonts.conf and add this to it Create ~/.Xresources and add Now run Restart Firefox 🙂

Tunneling SSH Connection Behind a Proxy

Been running a system behind a proxy server and some of these CLI packages neither use the GNOME system proxy or environment variables of proxy. SSH is one of them and I use it mostly, so how do I use it behind a proxy? CorkScrew Corkscrew is a simple tool to tunnel TCP connections through […]

My Best 3 Smooth GNOME Desktop Fonts

Gnome is a nice desktop I’ve been with lately and easily configured, fonts are cool but its been me looking for a better font for my system. In the quest of getting better font, I got 3 of them which I love most and deciding to share. It may be useful to you too, below […]

Parsing and Fetching DNS Resolvers in /etc/resolv.conf Using Python

In an app development I needed to use my system resolvers which is different from my ISP default resolver, and Python keeps taking my ISP resolver. I decided to put up this simple function to get resolvers for me in /etc/resolv.conf, here is it: https://github.com/donjajo/py-world/blob/master/resolvconfReader.py I hope this helps

How to Fix Failed GRUB Installation – Install Manually

Installation of a new system I faced an error on Grub installation, all I had to do was to skip the grub installation while having the main root system installed in the drive. An example of an error like this: Skip the grub installation and finish other installation parts, now we are going to boot […]

How to Add Repositories to Debian 8 “jessie”

Moved to Debian 8 recently because it has been my dream to use Debian as an OS of choice, reason is because of the name…funny though but it’s true, once I heard the name I fell in love with it 😀 Installed Debian 8 and noticed they repositories were not available making it not able […]

How to Make Changes in /etc/resolv.conf Permanent

I’m not good at using my ISP’s DNS Servers because last time I did, it wasn’t always up. I browse on a mobile network, so decided to be using another DNS servers which are always up all time… I use either Google DNS or OpenDNS and changing DNS servers in Linux is editing the /etc/resolv.conf […]

[Video] Resizing/Modifying Partitions in Linux Using GParted

Yup, you can actually create out a free partition from already existing partition in your Hard Disk with Linux GParted which is a free partition manager. Below I made a video on how to do it:  

Creating Wi-Fi Hotspot in Ubuntu (Visible to Android and All Devices)

Using Ubuntu, I had problems in sharing network to my SmartPhone especially Android, Ubuntu does not share an AP network which Android sees and uses but shares and Infrastructure network, of course you should know how to share ordinary Wi-Fi Hotspot in Ubuntu. Now in this post I’d be sharing how to share Wi-Fi Hotspot […]

Reset Forgotten Windows User Password Using Linux

Ye! I’m always running into issues and lucky me I always find a way out 🙂 It’s crappy when you forget your Windows Password without Password Recovery Disk. There are many recovery software out there but this one of Linux is so dope and easy. NB: This post is not about pointing out one OS’s […]