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What if you don't want UTF-8 as a default?

UTF-8 is great, I mean, this is wonderful. The problem is, it’s not yet well supported, and most of the stuff I have is in Latin1 (aka ISO-8859-1), and not UTF-8. That’s why I would like all my app...

Accelerating Firefox's rendering time

If you use Firefox as your daily browser, and you’re not using Indic or any CJK script as your Firefox locale, you can disable the Pango renderer, which makes Firefox support these languages, but a...

Playing around with RPMs and the rpm command

RPM is the package manager format used on Fedora Core (it’s also widely used on others). It stands for Red Hat package Manager (well, who cares anyway). You probably already know you can install or...

Using sudo to avoid typing the root password all the time

When you’re installing your new Linux system, you very often need to launch commands as root. The right way to do it in the console is: $ su - Password: After entering the password, you’ll be ro...

How to launch the correct associated program for any file from the console

Let’s say you have a .png file, a .txt file and an .mp3 file. If you are using Konqueror (or Nautilus under Gnome), just double click, the program you’ve chosen for this type of file will be launch...