Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 539 views
Last week some of the third party applets screwed up my Gnome Panel. So I wanted to reset it to the original state.
Here is the command which may help you:
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009 1,509 views
Recently I started using Audacious for playing audio files. Its the alternative to XMMS for Linux when development of XMMS halted. One thing I really like about it is that it is fast, low memory footprint and sleek UI.
Then yesterday I installed Conky - a system status display (like CPU ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu, [Solved] | 3 Comments »
Friday, February 13th, 2009 499 views
Do you love to throw a volley of mordant remarks whenever some asslol tries to login as root in your Linux box's terminal. Or perhaps you are on S&M side then you may enjoy chided for entering wrong passwords yourself. Yeah I love to see how terminal can bash me ...
Posted in Funny, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 1,363 views
What to do if your system is not responding and gone into eternal freeze. You might be tempted to press the restart button on the CPU cabinet or will turn off the UPS.
In other Linux distros these magic key combination can be enabled by either of the given below tricks:
1.Execute ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 1,335 views
If you are one of those guys who keep their PC running 24x7 then you must be among the same guys who end up getting a lot of swapped out memory. It can be a pain in the ass. But what if you can just dump down everything from swap ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 257 views
How many times you have to do a sudo and then see those coarse edged root programs for administration tasks. Installing from Synaptic or editing a system file using Gedit with lifeless insipid looking windows add no value to your already dull life. But fear not, Linux has the omnipotent ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009 237 views
What it takes for a Windows virus to affect a Linux installation ?
No, a Windows virus will fail in most cases. Yeah, it needs just a little loop hole to cause nuisance for even a Linux user. But a Linux system is not that generous to concede to the terms ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008 2,066 views
Some weeks back my bro switched over to Ubuntu completely. Yes, there is no dual boot system. Later my dad wanted to edit some of the Autocad files which my bro created for home plan. But then the files were made using Autocad, obviously the format was crypted DWG one. ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008 126 views
What to do if your system is not responding and gone into eternal freeze. You might be tempted to press the restart button on the CPU cabinet or will turn off the UPS.
The easiest trick is to directly communicate with the Kernel via /proc filesystem.
Press Alt + SysRq/Prt Scr key ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 252 views
The geekier way is to do things with command line (Terminal). sudo dpkg-xserver-xorg --reconfigure, yeah thats one of the commands to do things manually.
But an average Joe who is determined to try out Linux will find it rather cumbersome to do it the geeks way. So here is something to ...
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