This post speaks about blocking ad sites without installing any kind of software (net filter, local proxy, browser add-ons ...). Browsing without ads should be faster because browser has less content to render. It is can be used on Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Netware and so on. The trick is to define ad sites in the hosts file with localhost IP address. This way, browser will not be able to resolve real IP address and ad will not be loaded.
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Before mplayer-gui installation in Fedora Core 12, you will have to add RPM Fusion repositories. After that, yum will resolve all dependencies and mplayer will be installed in a minute.
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After installation of Fedora Core 12, I couldn't find option "focus window on mouse over". In previous Fedora, there was Window Preferences in GNOME with following options: Window Selection, Titlebar Action and Movement Key. The solution was to install control-center-extra package.
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How to permanently set application window to be always on top in GNOME? Yes, you can right click on window header in GNOME, and check always on top. Unfortunately, after closing window, this setting will not remain. In three steps, I will show how to set calculator (gcalctool) to stay permanently above ...
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rpm is a powerful Package Manager, which can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and erase individual software packages. This is the first sentence in the long rpm manual that lacks examples. On the other hand, I will try to write nothing more but the rpm examples.
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The "find" command is very useful. It can search the entire file system for one or more files that you specify to look for. With the "find" command, not only are you able to locate files, but you can also perform actions on the files it finds like move, delete, rename ...
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Files in Linux can be searched with "find" and "locate" command. "Find" exists very long, while "locate" is a new Linux feature. The main difference between them is the way they work - "locate" uses database to search files, while "find" searches for files in a directory hierarchy.
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