Category Archives: Linux

Fix for Google Chrome crash after startup

March 2, 2011 | No comments

The issue with Google Chrome was that it crashed in about 3 seconds after startup. I encountered this problem using Chrome 9 and 10 beta on Ubuntu 10.10, but this fix may apply to other versions and operating systems as well.Continue reading →

Extract audio from video file

February 20, 2011 | No comments

Since there are so many tools (Minitube, youtube-dl) which allows you to download video files from YouTube or other video sharing sites, let’s go one step further and extract the sound from the downloaded video file to a mp3 file. The FFmpeg tool will do the trick just fineContinue reading →

Disk management in Linux

April 20, 2010 | No comments

If you need to manage your disk or just check the disk space usage of a Linux powered computer, here are some suggestions for both graphical and command line interfaces.Continue reading →

CLI search and replace in multiple files

March 11, 2010 | No comments

Here is a quick tip about how to find and replace a text in multiple files, from CLI.In this example you have some text files (.txt) with urls like “http://example.com, http://another-example.com…”. What you are trying to do is to replace all “http” references with “https”.Continue reading →

Midnight Commander preserve saved settings

December 3, 2009 | No comments

Midnight Commander, one of the most used CLI file managers available for Linux is unable to preserve settings over different sessionsContinue reading →