Speed up your work with Bash aliases

Whether you like or not Terminal in Linux, it's very useful and sometimes necessary. So, to speed up your work you can use "aliases" for commonly used commands. For example: when I type "aa", "apt-get install" is executed.

To enable "aliases" it's very simple, just follow these steps:

1. with your favorite editor open .bashrc (located in your home directory)

2. add this line

aliases xx="command"

3. open terminal and execute this command:

source ~/.bashrc

You can add as many aliases as you want but every time you need to reload bash with "source ~/.bashrc".

If you want to use aliases for the commands that can be executed only by root, edit .bashrc from your root directory, and execute "source ~/.bashrc" as root.

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Move the Firefox sidebar to the right

First you have to find userChrome.css file. This file is located in your profile folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\your profile\Application Data\Mozilla

Now open userChrome-example.css and enter these lines:

/* Display the sidebar in opposite side */
#browser {
-moz-box-direction: reverse;
}

Finally Save that file as userChrome.css and close it.

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How to fix missing Avast icon from system tray

This is a common problem with Avast Free Antivirus. Honestly I don't know the reason for this behavior, but the easiest solution is to repair Avast installation through Add/Remove program.

1. Open Control Panel
2. Click on Add or Remove Programs
3. Locate Avast and select repair

If this doesn't help, maybe you can try to reinstall Avast.

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How to disable the Windows XP Splash Screen

1. Click on Start, then Run

2. In the Run box type: msconfig

3. Click on the BOOT.INI tab

4. Now check this option:

/NOGUIBOOT

5. Click OK and Restart your PC

6. After restart you'll see this message:


7. Check "Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows start" and click OK

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