How many times have you encountered the situation where you need to upgrade a device's firmware, may it be a mobile phone, PDA or even your Motherboard, and there is no Linux utility available? We…

For those of you who have not seen how pretty the Mac OS X GUI really is, I pity you. :P Anyway, one of the hacks available on the Mac is Growl, a notification system. Applications using Growl can pro…

When I started tinkering with Linux, my base computer memory was 128MB. That practically is an indication of my age. Hahaha. Anyway, running applications was not an issue since there were not that man…

When I was starting with Linux back in the mid 90s, I used to compile the Linux kernels, which usually takes from an hour to half a day depending on your RAM and processor speed, to enable bleeding ed…

We all want our Linux installs to be quick and responsive. Whilst it already is, there are still a few tweaks that you can do to speed it up.

The article talks about how to speed up disk access, boo…

While I was looking around, I found this PDF that explains how you can run Bluetooth on Linux. Its a excerpt from the book Wireless Hacks, published by O'riellyâ„¢ Media, Inc. It goes over ever…

This teaches you to change your flash player 7 on Xubuntu to a flash player 9. Its small, and really easy to do.

1) Make a back-up of the file

~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat:
cp ~/.mozilla/firefo…

SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

This article, written by Jem Matzen, teaches you how to hack a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. It is a bit risky, the directions can change your operating system, w…

It's easy. It's free. You can boost your wireless signal and throttle your bandwidth, and if you somehow mess up and brick your router, you can recover everything. This is a great hack, but un…

I found real nice guide that helps you hacking the linux kernel. It teaches you everything you should know. You'll get all of your source codes at this site. The only cons were it is a bit long an…