Hiding Users from GDM in Ubuntu 10.04

Back in old days before the new gdm implementation, we can easily hide specific user from the login list, but now after Ubuntu 9.10 and later, the default option is to list or hide them all from the login screen. I got this tweak to at least manually select which users to hide from the [...]

Running SSS R3 File Generator (R3FileGen) in Linux

Currently, Social Security System (http://www.sss.gov.ph) has this tool called R3 File Generator, which previously a DOS-based program which has been updated now  to java, a good news for non-Windows OS users. But still it’s needs some minor fixes to be able to run it, in my example in Linux. The Folder structure: I didn’t alter [...]

Google Chrome HOME button

Ever wonder where in the world is the HOME key in Google Chrome (recently version 8.0)? Most of my time browsing, I used the home button to check updates on my iGoogle, which contain various feeds and my Gmail inbox, facebook, twitter etc… It’s been almost a year now since I started using Google Chrome, [...]

10000 hits a month, a big leap for me.

My blog is now getting 10000 hits a month in average. Good new for me and I appreciate it very much. Now that I know people are actually reading things here, and hope you’ll learn something or even share some thought for better Linux computing. Thanks guys.