InTrust Domains Second Survey
Jul 30th
Where do you go when you need to buy a domain? Well, I’m sure you look for a trust, fast and secure way to buy it.
InTrust Domains is a great place to buy and to find second survey domains, because when you need to buy something (especially on internet) you need to trust, like the most of the InTrust Domains customers.
InTrust Domains is very worried about the customer satisfaction, and it has very good feedbacks from them. On the last customer satisfaction survey, they get 100% of satisfaction out of 92 responses. Almost all of this 92 would like to buy again in InTrust Domains, only one skipped the question.
You can see in the website that InTrust Domains delivers the domain instantly. Also, the website says:
- Transactions Bonded by BuySafe
- All Purchased Domains Delivered Immediately
- Open To Negotiations On Price
- All Domain Purchased Are For One-Time Payment. Renewals only $7/year!
InTrust Domains cares about consumers satisfaction, receiving several testimonials from pleased costumers that says that it’s quick, simple, efficient and secure. It has cool prices and is open to negociations. You can find a cool domain name and buy it for a cool price very fast.
So, go to there, browse through the available domains and enjoy.
Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance
Jul 27th
A few days ago I marked an article to read later and I finally read it. It’s about how to Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance.
According the post, “since Firefox 3.0, bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases”. So, optimize this databases is very healthy to Firefox.
And it’s very easy to do. On Ubuntu (I did on 9.04) install the sqlite3 package. Open the terminal and type:
sudo aptitude install sqlite3
After, still in terminal, access your Firefox profile folder:
cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/something_weird.default
In my computer, this something_weird.default is 73cm0ffy.default.
You can see many .sqlite files inside this folder, these are the database to optimize. To do this, close Firefox (only after read or copy this post 
), then type, for each file:
sqlite3 file_name.sqlite vacuum
And there’s a way to vacuum all the files at once? Sure. You’re using a Linux terminal! To do this, type:
for i in *.sqlite; do sqlite3 $i vacuum; done
And done.
Cell phone accessories
Jul 26th
I like to have different cell phone gadgets and accessories, but I like to choose what I’ll buy thinking about if it would be really useful for me.
For example, imagine this: you go out with your friends. You have an iPhone, as all your friends. Few minutes later you see three iPhones on the table. Which iPhone is yours?
Well, it’s easy to avoid this problem in a fashion way: you can customize it with iPhone skins, so you can be sure on what’s yours. And you can get a very nice look to your iPhone.
But one of my last bought accessories was the leather case for my cell phone. My two previous phones displays got break inside my pocket. So, don’t let your iPhone without an iPhone leather case, it’s really dangerous.
And if you’re like me, you may loose you charger everywhere. The easiest way to be prevent this is to buy another iPhone or iPod touch charger and let it at home, while you have one always with you…
Starting Linux through Windows XP boot list (boot.ini)
Jul 22nd
Last week I had to recover the grub in a notebook after a Windows reinstall. The easiest way would be running an Ubuntu live cd and run the grub program. But I hadn’t a cd and tried with a bootable usb stick and… nothing. That notebook doesn’t boot by usb. I tried also with a sd card, but had the same problem…
The solution: Burn a CD? No. Let’s do something more criative…
Well, we know that Windows XP also has his boot list (boot.ini), so why not to put Linux on the list?
Unfortunately, it’s not so easy as edit the grub menu, but it’s still easy.
First, you have to create an image from the master sector of a HD which has the grub installed (I used my notebook). Open terminal and type:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
Maybe you have to change /dev/sda1 for other device, depending on your HD.
This command creates the bootsect.lnx file. Put it on c:\ on Windows. After that we will edit the boot.ini on Windows.
There’s two ways to do this: you can edit the c:\boot.ini directly (it may be hidden and read-only) or you can right click on “My Computer”, go to “Preferences”, “Advanced” tab, and click the button to edit boot preferences. So the boot.ini is opened on notepad.
On boot.ini, paste the following line at the end of the file:
c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
Save, close and reboot.
Now your Windows asks you if you want to start Windows or Linux.
And voi là.
(I think it’s the biggest post I wrote in English, so forgive me for the mistakes)
How to open PDFs inside Firefox on Linux
Jul 19th
I was thinking about how to open a PDF file inside Firefox on Ubuntu, like the Acrobat plugin do on Windows, but using Evince.
So I “googled” about Evince and Firefox and found it quickly in the Lâmpada Azul site. Altought it has many steps, I used only the first and it worked very well. You have only to install the mozplugger package:
sudo aptitude install mozplugger
Alright. It may works now.
Meme(me)
Sep 24th
- Take a picture of yourself right now.
- Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
- Post that picture with NO editing.
- Post these instructions with your picture.
USB sound card on Ubuntu
Aug 6th
Last week I had to install a M-AUDIO Fast Track Pro USB sound card on a computer with Ubuntu. Well, I’m not so good on audio subjects, so I asked Oraculo about ‘m-audio fast track ubuntu‘, where I found some good info.
But, to ease your work if you have to install such sound card, I wrote a step-by-step tutorial on how to install it on Ubuntu 8.04:
- Step 1: Plug the sound card on the computer via USB.
Thus, I finish the step-by-step tutorial.
When I connected the sound card, I looked what dmesg said. As I connected the USB, Ubuntu has registered the driver needed. So I tested and everything seemed ok.
Don’t you wonder why some operating systems ask you to install the driver from a CD?
Repurposing Planet
Jul 23rd
I agree with “repurposing Planet” post of Jordan Mantha. I saw once a post suggesting to create the Universe Ubuntu, where all topics would be placed.
I’m not writing too much on my English blog, but I’ll follow what Jordan said. I’ll correct the tags of my posts and keep on Planet Ubuntu only the posts tagged as ubuntu.
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