Ubuntu Releases Time-Line

DriveSpacio – A Free Space Monitoring Tool

DriveSpacio
is a free Windows utility for examinging hard drive usage. When you
first boot the program you’ll get a list of each hard drive and
partition on your system, along with, some details like the files
system, cluster size, and a pie chart or bar graph showing used and
free space.

But the fun really begins when you click on the Folders section. You
can choose a folder, or an entire drive (just click C: or E: or what
have you in the browse window), and DriveSpacio will plot your folders
on a graph showing you which of your folders are eating the most space.
It taks a few moments to scan folders with a lot of subfolders or
files, but the result is a pretty effective tool for figuring out why
you’re running out of space on your hard drive.

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Good 13 Tips for Ubuntu

1. Play youtube videos directly in Totem Movie Player (Hardy):
   Open Movie Player, go to Edit > Plugins and enable “Youtube
   Browser”, then in the right panel select “Youtube” and then just search
   for a video. And of course, it works full-screen too And you can install the Totem Movie Player H.264 plugin for youtube for better quality, from here.

2. Another tip: i recently find out that by holding the mouse over
   audio files (i’m not sure for other versions, but it definitely works
   on Hardy) you can listen to that file… like a preview.
3. One thing that annoyed me when i installed Ubuntu first was
   the way to big icons, so if that’s the case for you too, here’s what
   you can do: open nautilus and go to edit > preferences: icons view:
   default zoom level: 75%.
4. To customize most of the colors of your ubuntu: sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser which you can then find under System > Preferences.
5. Another nice little piece of software is alltray: sudo apt-get install alltray

   It lets you open a program in system tray even if that software does
   not support it. To do so: hit alt+f2 and type: alltray
   <name_of_software_to_open> and the same goes for shortcuts.

6. Some system information: sudo apt-get install sysinfo
7. To download youtube videos and convert them to .avi: sudo apt-get install youtube-dl ffmpeg

   and then: youtube-dl -o example.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaAWFoWr2c"

   and to convert to avi: ffmpeg -i example.flv example.avi

   (of course change the name of the video as you please and the youtube link to the video you want to download).

8. Many of us use gtk-recordmydesktop which saves the screen
   recordings in ogg or ogv format but we may want it in avi format, so to
   do that: sudo apt-get install mencoder

   and: mencoder -idx example.ogg -ovc lavc -nosound -o example.avi (this is if the ogg file has no sound).

9. To make a playlist of the audio files in a folder: ls -R > playlist.m3u
10. To kill a process by it’s name: sudo killall <prog_name> for instance: sudo killall firefox

    or you can kill by pid (program id): sudo kill <pid>

    and to see the pid: pidof <program name>, for instance: pidof firefox

    (or you can try listing the currently running processes with: ps -e

11. To refresh the gnome panel: sudo killall gnome-panel
12. To find out the version of installed software: apt-cache policy <packet_name>
13. To find out the UUID of your partitions: ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -alh

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