The problem
Many a time I have re-installed my system from scratch or created a new system, but get sick of continually installing the same packages over and over. Its annoying when 2 or 3 months down the line you want to use a program you used to have (or have on another system) only to find its not yet installed. Sure, an apt-get install only takes a few minutes for a single piece of software, but that’s a few minutes a geek like me could better spend doing something productive.
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List, backup or Restore installed packages on Debian and Ubuntu
Encrypting your Ubuntu swap partition
What is swap?
Even if you encrypt data on your partitions, something that is often overlooked is your swap partition. Swap is where linux ’swaps’ programs (and their stored data) from physical system memory onto the hard disk when they are not used. When those programs become used again, the system ’swaps’ them back into memory. This approach can allow you to run more programs than you have RAM for, at the cost of delay – for example when programs are swapped back into RAM from disk.
Ubuntu faster updates
You may have noticed that the default installation of Ubuntu doesn’t get your full speed on downloads when updating. This is down to the fact every installation of Ubuntu comes with the main Ubuntu APT repository set as default, and those servers can get overcrowded with the amount of people out there running a default installation.
Disable PC speaker under linux
I get really annoyed with that pc speaker beeping every time I hit <TAB> in shell. Heres how to get rid of it from your current running kernel: Read & Comment ›››
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