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Things that drive me mad about Linux

I was having many talks with Linux aficionados who argued that my only obstacle on the way to Linux was lack of knowledge and experience. While I agree for 100% with their opinion, I have few more things to deal with in Linux:

Multimedia¶

Everyone knows that multimedia support in Linux is … how to put it mildly, inferior.

First of all, Skype sound quality. I desperately need good sound and reliable connection.

Next, for my surprise, I’m using multimedia player quite often. On Windows, my player of preference is PotPlayer/KMPlayer. Unfortunately, I haven’t found anything similar to …

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Server monitoring tools

Today I was checking stats of my new and growing web site and found it to have no visitors today. I visited my site and found it to be down.

previously, I used php-cgi command to get php listening on some port in my system waiting for nginx requests. Today I replaced it with a php-fpm implementation, but I’m seriously considering checking my server health regularly.

First, let me mention I’ve already did some research on Munin monitoring previously. So today I’m extending my research to a broader extent of monitoring systems, scripts and services. I’ll …

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Restore Ubuntu GRUB after Windows 8 installation

Use this package to recover: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

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SSH alias

By adding this to ~/.ssh/config:

Host example
  HostName example.com
  User exampleuser

You can reduce that to previous command to ssh example

Nice huh?

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