Month: October 2012

Linux ( Gnome/Unity/KDE ) + Virtualbox + Mouse issues

After the latest Ubuntu upgrade my mouse became extremely unstable.  I use Gnome 3 and at random times, my mouse’s X and Y values would jump to 0.  This made it difficult to complete simple tasks as well as the annoyance of Gnome’s hot window from the top left corner being triggered constantly just by […]

Linux: Make grep FAST

I’m a searcher. I always grep for things. I use fun commands like: vim -p `grep -lR xyz .` Which finds all files containing xyz and automatically opens them as tabs in vim ( doesn’t work too well when a ton of files are found though 😉 ). At times however, grep’s just… a bit […]