You’ve probably heard about the 200 lines kernel patch that makes wonders ? Well there’s an easier way to dramatically increase your Linux Distro reactiveness and obtain a similar result, I tested it and it’s really working 
, this is for Ubuntu:
“Script To Automatically Apply the “200 Lines Kernel Patch” Alternative In Ubuntu”
For other distros:
If you want to open the System Monitor in Gnome just like Windows, here’s what you have to do :
1) Disable the current Ctrl+Alt+Del combination (Logout) :
In Ubuntu Go to System ->Preferences ->Keyboard Shortcuts -> Desktop disable logout shortcut (hit backspace) if it’s associated with Ctrl+Alt+Del.
2) Enter these commands in a shell :
gconftool-2 -t str --set /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/run_command_1 "Delete"
gconftool-2 -t str --set /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/command_1 "gnome-system-monitor"
Note that these are Metacity global keybindings, normally you should have the 12 run commands disabled so you can use 1 to 12 numbers range in run_command_x and command_x, it’s always better to check their current status, hit Alt+F2 enter gconf-editor then open apps -> metacity -> global_keybindings.
I got this informations reading this excellent post. Take also a look at Ubuntu Guide.
You’re new to mac and you don’t find the Print Screen button ? You can take take three types of screenshots in Mac OSX without using third parties software :
1) A fullscreen capture : just hold down the apple button (Command), SHIFT and press 3.
2) A selection screenshot : Hold down the apple button, SHIFT and press 4, you’ll get a crosshair cursor to select the area to capture.
3) A window capture : If you want to do a perfect match capture of the currently active window, just hold down the apple button, shift, press 4 and then press spacebar you’ll get a camera cursor just left-click and here we are. (If you wanna do the same in GNOME and Windows just hit Alt+Print Screen)
All the screenshots are automatically saved on the Desktop.
Many people criticize the commercial aspect of Mac OSX but you can’t deny that it’s really user-friendly and smartly designed (even if the HFS/HFS+ filesystem peformance is controversial )…
Are you looking for beautiful and classy emoticons pack for your website or forum ? Check this one :
Mac Themes 2 Smilies by the talentuous David Lanham
(click on the picture)
blink is no more working on Intrepid ? here’s the solution : how to fix it
Do you want to see the whole URL like in a web navigator in Nautilus/Dolphin ? You can switch to this mode by hitting CTRL+L to show the complete editable location not flat buttons. To make it persistent, do this :
KDE4 // Dolphin :
Start Dolphin » Settings » Configure Dolphin » check “Editable location bar”
Gnome // Nautilus :
Press ALT+F2, run gconf-editor, look for “/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry” and activate it
GMail offers now 7Go of free space, who needs such a huge space for mailing ? Some smart guys 
decided to use gmail as an external drive, this website porposes an shell extension that adds a GMail drive to your Windows (My Computer) next to your local drives. You can send files directly from you PC by drag and drop. All the files you send appear as mails prefixed with GMAILFS in subjects. You can create a filter to move all messages containing this prefix in archives to avoid inbox overload.
Another guy made an extension for Firefox.
Tired of browsing deviantart and guistyles trying to select the best wallpapers ? Take a look at Interfacelift, you’ll find only stunning wallpapers no more cr*p.
If you want to check what your mac is doing on startup, just type the following command in a terminal :
sudo nvram boot-args=-v
It’s better to check if you have other arguments before by doing :
sudo nvram boot-args
If yes, just add -v to the other arguments
Now you’ve got the verbose mode activated, linuxheads feeling like home…
To get your old boot sceen back just type :
sudo nvram boot-args=
If you have other arguments just enter them after the = .
How to do a Chrome/Opera specific stylesheet
Tags: chrome specific css, chrome-only stylesheet, css conditional comments, css hacks, In-CSS hacks, Opera specific Css, opera-only stylesheet, specific stylesheets
You’ve probably wondered how to load specific CSS stylesheets for Chrome, Safari and Opera, some kind of <!–[if Chrome]> CSS conditional comment. Unfortunately these conditional comments work only with the IE Series.
There’s an easy PHP solution to recreate this behaviour for other browsers, the excellent browser detecting script remade by Chris Schuld, this script will let you use this kind of code in your XHTML views:
<?php $browser = $browser->getBrowser();?>
<?php if($browser == Browser::BROWSER_CHROME || $browser == Browser::BROWSER_SAFARI):?>
<link href=”css/chrome-safari.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” />
<?php endif;?>
In this example I deliberately took Chrome/Safari: Using a very similar version of Webkit HTML Engine, both render quite closely web pages, so you can use the same CSS file for both of them.
There’s an exhaustive list of supported browsers, even the iPhone Safari version and Lynx
are handled by the script.