[Speedup] Change swappiness value
While using relatively low RAM memory (1 GB or less) the system tends to be too slow and accesses the hard disk too much. There is a partition on hard disk called SWAP which is also called virtual memory.
How to convert PDF to png
Recently I had the need to convert a .PDF file with many pages to individual .PNG files. On the folder where the PDF were, I typed in the terminal: for i in *.pdf ; do convert “$i” “${i%.*}.png” ; done
Move Firefox’s cache to RAM
Since your computer can access data in RAM faster than on a hard drive, moving cached data to RAM can improve your page load times. In Firefox, all you need to do to move your cache to RAM is open … Continued
How to change the interface language of Firefox
I like to have my global system locale in English, but I mus use Firefox and Thunderbird in pt-PT so if anyone has a similar need, here’s how to do it.
How to convert WAV files to FLAC
Recently I needed to upload all my music library to Google Music, and got some errors (WAV format is not supported). So I needed a command to batch convert all WAV files into FLAC find . -name “*.WAV” -exec flac … Continued
How to find out your wireless card chipset information
When for some reason our distro fails to auto install our wireless network card, we first need to identity its chipset, so open up a terminal and type: lspci | egrep -i –color ‘wifi|wlan|wireless’