How To Properly Mount Android 4.0+ Devices In Ubuntu Using Go-mtpfs

December 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Mounting an Android 4.0+ device in Ubuntu is pretty tricky, but there is a FUSE filesystem called Go-mtpfs, created by a Google employee because “mtpfs was very unstable” for him, which works great. Read on to find out how to use it and easily install it in Ubuntu using a PPA!
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How to properly use ‘dd’ on Linux to benchmark the write speed of your disk?

September 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment

This article is written to address sometimes incorrect usage of the “dd” program to measure disk write performance on a VPS by some visitors of the lowendbox.com website. How to use dd to really benchmark your disk and not the cache ?
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AMD Will Properly Support KWin With Catalyst

February 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment

For those AMD Catalyst users that were concerned by the recent statements of Martin Gräßlin that KWin will likely end up dropping their GL1 renderer, which would eliminate vintage GPU hardware support as well as Catalyst driver support, fear not…




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