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Ubuntu Tweak – Customise Your Desktop

Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to configure Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provided many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment isn’t provided. It can be download from http://ubuntu-tweak.com/ website. Features of Ubuntu Tweak View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.) GNOME Session Control Auto Start Program Control Quick [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 – Enabling Location Based Address Bar Permanently in Nautilus File Browser

In my previous post ,  Only the key control was given to enable location based address bar , but if you want to enable location based address bar permanently in nautilus File Browser. simply follow these steps, Goto Terminal and type the given command #gconf-editor You will get one new configuration window , In that [...]

How to Reset MySQL Server Password ?

Sometime you might have forgotten your MySQL server password  for connecting to client. At that time while you try MySQL command in your terminal you will get the following error message #mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) To get around this problem you need [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 Beginners Manual

The Ubuntu manual team has released new beginners guide for 10.04 version. it would be really very useful for those who want to start Ubuntu  from scratch. Click the link below to download free copy of  Manual in Portable Document format. Download Ubuntu 10.04 Beginners Guide

10 Myths About Ubuntu Linux Operating System

Ubuntu only ships the latest and greatest Ubuntu fix bugs for the current and past releases Ubuntu is a stand-alone distribution Updates can break things Uses a lot of resources Ubuntu can not play games [ or No gaming support] Big companies don’t use Ubuntu Ubuntu  won’t connect to an iPod or MP3 player.. User [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 – Enabling Address Bar in Nautilus File Browser

Tips and Tricks To Enable nautilus  address bar [text based location] in Ubuntu 10.04 , Press CTRL+L   [ L is a small letter] Reference http://krp90.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/nautilus-make-the-text-based-address-bar-reappear-in-ubuntu-10-04

10 Basic Linux Commands

1. Man – Online Manual Page for Linux Commands Displaying Manual or Help Page # man find Getting Short Description # man -f ifconfig Getting List of commands using keyword # man -k “network” Converting Manual Page into Portable Format [ Text , PDF , PS ] For Text File conversion # man ls | [...]

Gparted – Partition Log File for My 1TB Hard Disk

I am using 1TB Seagate hard disk , last night i formated everything and newly installed Ubuntu 10.4 also i partitioned my disk like following Primary Partition (/)   – 200 GB Extended Partition -    800  [ 9 GB for Swap , 300 GB for Research and  470 GB for Entertainment ] Here is the log [...]

Basic Linux Commands : "apropos" and "cd"

apropos Each manual page has short description available within it, apropos command will search the command short description with the given keyword. This command is same as man -k option. but the advantage of apropos is using regular expression for searching the commands. Example #apropos “print” #apropos -r “^[p]+[g]$” pg (1)               – browse pagewise through [...]

10 Useful Basic Linux Commands

“Linux: the operating system with a CLUE… Command Line User Environment”. Now a days , everything you can do with GUI mode, even though graphical mode is user friendly , only user can do their work more faster way using commands. As a Linux beginners , you need to know at least some basic commands [...]