If you need to type a certain string on regular basis, you may want to set it up as a keyboard shortcut. But one cannot just associate a hot key with the string. Here is how to do it on Ubuntu without installing any extra package.
Trade security with performance
The recent CPU flaw caused quite a mess. Most recent linux kernels have the problems patched, but what if I am willing to trade security for performance? I’ll need to compile my own kernel and here is how to do that on Ubuntu 17. apt install git build-essential kernel-package fakeroot libncurses5-dev libssl-dev ccache wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.15.tar.xz tar Jxvf linux-4.15.tar.xz cd linux-4.15 First, we need to make oldconfig. Basically copy the kernel…
Redshift for Linux desktop
Ever since Mac deploys the night shift feature, I could not stop using it. For someone who needs to look at monitors for long hours, I absolutely love it. I can also do it with Linux.
Adding SystemRescueCD to grub2
Adding a bootable ISO image to grub will be very useful for recovering Linux systems. Here we add the systemrescuecd iso to grub2 on Ubuntu 15.04. It’s really easy and I recommend adding it to every Linux systems!
Flash on Ubuntu+Firefox
It’s the most annoying thing when every now and then, your flash version is outdated and it won’t load the pages you visit every day. For me, this solved the problem: First, install pepperflashplugin-nonfree. It’s avaialble from official repository on Ubuntu 14.04. But this only install the plugin for chrome. Second, install the Fresh Player plugin from http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05/install-fresh-player-plugin-in-ubuntu.html Restart Firefox and that’s it. Sadly, the plugin still consume a considerable…