Some small tips

Put colors in vi

Edit ~/.vimrc file, and add the following line:

syntax on

My DVD recorder does not works

On some Ubuntu versions, with a SATA disk, the IDE DVD burner is not always recognized. To correct the problem, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add udev on the boot line for the system (kernel)

Automatically correct typos

On Un*x ua handy utility exists to correct typos as you can do if we change directories. To do this, add the following line in the file ~/.bashrc:

shopt -s cdspell

Now, when we are typuing "cd /usr/shre", we will go on the /usr/share path, in spite of the typo.