In Ubuntu, the Archive Manager (or file-roller) has make it easy for anyone to compress and zip up a file or folder, but if you have a large file, say 20Gb, and you want to back it up to the CD/DVD, you will find that no amount of compression can you reduce the file size [...]
Ubuntu 8.10 is the upcoming version of the Ubuntu operating system. The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was “Intrepid Ibex”.
Read more at Ubuntu Geek
Once in a while, you may want to do some maintenance on your Ubuntu machine and clean up unnecessary files that are chunking up large storage space in your hard disk.
Here are 8 ways that you can use to clean up your Ubuntu:
1) Analyze your disk usage
The first thing that you need to do is [...]
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install
Images of xen on an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) server system
(i386). Linux distributions that can run as Xen guests out of the box,
obviating the need to create your own custom filesystems. The
filesystems on jailtime.org have already been tweaked to deal with
Xen’s idiosyncracies, and are also designed [...]
The Xbox Media Center (XBMC)
is a media center application for Linux, Mac, and Windows that allows
you to manage/watch/listen to/view your videos, music, and pictures. It
has a nice interface, can be controlled from the desktop or a remote
control or via its built-in web interface, and it can be extended by
custom scripts. This guide shows how you [...]
Adobe AIR
is a technology that lets you run Internet applications on the desktop.
With AIR you do not need a browser to run such desktop applications.
This tutorial explains how you can install Adobe AIR 1.1 for Linux beta
on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop and how you can install AIR applications.
Read more at HowtoForge
Old hardware? Want a faster boot up? Need to free some system resources? Want snappier applications? This is for you. Note, I wouldn’t suggest doing anything within this if it doesn’t make sense to you.
Boot Process
1. Remove Network Manager if you do not need it “sudo apt-get remove network-manager”. If possible give yourself [...]
If you have files that are bigger than 4GB in size, you will find that you can’t back them up to your external hard disk, even though it has 1TB of storage space. The reason being, when you first bought the hard disk, it is pre-formatted with FAT32 format, and in case you don’t know, [...]
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2
on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and
run guest operating systems (”virtual machines”) such as Linux,
Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the
benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same
hardware which saves a [...]
Furius ISO Mount
is a tool that lets you mount and unmount ISO images on your desktop,
calculate the checksums (MD5 and SHA1) of the ISO images, and burn them
onto a CD or DVD (using external programs like Brasero or Nautilus). It
comes with a graphical user interface and is extremely easy to use.
This guide shows how to [...]
Foremost and Scalpel are not interested in the underlying filesystem. They simply expect the data blocks of the files to reside sequentially in the image under investigation. The tools will find images in dd dumps, RAM dumps, or swap files.Carving will help to identify and reconstruct files on corrupt filesystems, in
slack space, or even after [...]
Zimbra software is open source, meaning we make both the software code and the application itself available to anyone at no charge. Also, Zimbra Desktop is a full version; there are no missing features or catches.
Yahoo!zimbra Feature details
Email
* Easily compose, edit, delete, reply, or make drafts
* ‘Drag [...]
Old hardware? Want a faster boot up? Need to free some system resources? Want snappier applications? This is for you. Note, I wouldn’t suggest doing anything within this if it doesn’t make sense to you.
Boot Process
1. Remove Network Manager if you do not need it “sudo apt-get remove network-manager”. If possible give yourself [...]
Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing access to your entire music collection wherever you are. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living [...]
One feature I’ve been looking forward to in Ubuntu 8.10 is the encrypted private directory. With this feature, you’ll get a folder called Private in your home. Private will work just like a normal folder, but it will be transparently encrypted and automatically locked and unlocked when you log in and out.
The encryption is provided [...]