Author Archives: Silver Moon

About Silver Moon

A Tech Enthusiast, Blogger, Linux Fan and a Software Developer. Writes about Computer hardware, Linux and Open Source software and coding in Python, Php and Javascript. He can be reached at [email protected].

How to Get the UUID of devices on Linux, Ubuntu, Debian

By | July 28, 2020

Unique identifier for each storage device UUID is the “universally unique identifier” that is assigned to devices on a linux system for the purpose of identification. For example if your hard disk has 3 partitions then each partition is a device and has a uuid. Similarly cd/dvd, usb drives etc all are assigned a uuid…. Read More »

Speed up menus in lxde desktop

By | February 26, 2013

Here is a quick trick that can speed up the main/navigation menus and menus in file manager like pcmanfm inside the lxde desktop. This trick is a setting for the gtk library. 1. Open the file named .gtkrc-2.0 in the home directory. If the file does not exist, then create one. 2. Put in the… Read More »

Speed up mouse click speed on lxde desktop

By | February 26, 2013

The lxde desktop is a lightweight desktop for linux systems. Similar to xfce but requires lesser resources than the heavier gnome and kde desktops. Many linux distros have a lxde spin as well for those who prefer the lxde desktops. For example Lubuntu is the lxde variant of ubuntu. Fedora too has a lxde version…. Read More »

Install Backtrack 5 rc3 on virtualbox

By | February 25, 2013

Backtrack 5 rc3 is at the present the latest release of backtrack linux and is based on ubuntu. Virtualbox supports such oses very well and installation of guest additions is also very swift and smooth. So now we are going to install the backtrack distro inside Virtualbox. Get the latest virtualbox for your system (windows,… Read More »

Install Virtualbox Guest Additions in OpenSUSE 12.2

By | January 15, 2023

Opensuse 12.2 by default has the virtualbox guest additions inbuilt. But if you want to reinstall then follow the steps. First install the C compiler and make utilities required to compile the guest additions. sudo zypper in gcc make Now install the kernel development packages for the current distro version Find the kernel type ~>… Read More »

Wget – automatically resume broken downloads

By | February 20, 2013

Wget is a commandline utility to download files over the http protocols. To download a file for example the syntax would be $ wget http://www.somesite.com/file.zip The above command will start downloading the file and save it in the home directory of the user. However if the download breaks, due to poor internet for example then… Read More »

How to Check if Virtualbox Guest Additions are Installed in a Linux Guest OS

By | May 1, 2023

Virtualbox guest additions allow better integration between the host and guest operating systems like seamless copy/paste, flexible screen resolution of the guest os etc. After installing an OS inside VirtualBox you should install the Guest Additions right away to get the best features and functionality out of it. It installs driver programs that enables native… Read More »

Top gui download managers for ubuntu/linux

By | May 30, 2013

Download managers Download managers are gui applications that allow users to manage multiple downloads in a single place, and do things like schedule, pause, resume, control download speed etc. And also download a file in multiple parts to maximise the download speed. On linux the traditional method to download files is through the use of… Read More »

Get the play time and bitrate of an mp3 in php

By | February 16, 2013

If your php application is processing media files like mp3, then it might need to find details of the mp3 file like its playtime, bitrate, encoder etc. There is a very useful php library called Getid3 that can extract information from mp3 files. Its written in pure php and does not have any dependencies. Needs… Read More »

Flareget – file download manager for linux

By | February 16, 2013

Flareget – The flashget for linux Flareget is a featureful file download manager for linux. The conventional file download managers available for ubuntu/linux are kget, wget, curl etc. But each of them has some sort of limitation or lacks certain features not making them easy for common users. This is where flareget comes in. It… Read More »

Softmaker Freeoffice – a free office suite for linux

By | July 28, 2013

Softmaker Freeoffice Softmaker Freeoffice is an office suite that is available for both windows and linux, with a free and paid version. The free version can be downloaded from the website The suite provides the following 3 applications Textmaker This is the wordprocessor. Supports microsoft formats like docx and doc. However the free version can… Read More »