New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Ubuntu 10.04 How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Ubuntu 10.04 This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Ubuntu 10.04 as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Ubuntu 10.04). The USB/IP [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Convert eBooks in Linux Say you just bought an Amazon Kindle or a Barnes and Noble Nook. You want to convert your eBook collection to .EPUB or .MOBI format. For this, install Calibre. The application not only provides you with a graphical way to manage your eBook collection, but [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Recovering deleted images from flash cards Chances are if you have a digital camera writing images to a SDHC card, or some similar card, at some point you’ve accidentally deleted images from it. Here we’re going to walk-through the process of retrieving deleted images from a card using the [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to View bash shell history and Change bash history file size in Ubuntu The Bash shell is the default shell environment in most Linux distributions, including all flavours of Debian. One default feature of the Bash shell is to record a history of all the commands entered by [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to reset forgotten Ubuntu password Continuing my previous post “how to reset Windows password using Ubuntu“, in this post I’ll give solution “how to reset Ubuntu password“. It’s really easy to reset Ubuntu password! Just log in root mode. And in Ubuntu this can be done by logging [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Ghosting The Machine Ghosting The Machine This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a desktop/server). You might have a small office where you customise one desktop just how you like it and need [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How To Change The Date And Time From The Console How To Change The Date And Time From The Console This short tutorial explains how you can modify your system date and time from the console. Link to the original site
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. How to Reset debian Root Password If you forgot your root password for your debian server use the following procedure to reset. Boot to the GRUB menu. Then, press <e> (for edit) before Linux has a chance to boot. Link to the original site
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Improve Your WordPress Performance With W3 Total Cache If there is any plugin that can improve the performance of any WordPress blog by a great deal, it has to be W3 Total Cache. This is a well-designed cache plugin used by many popular sites, as well as this Make [...]
If you’re transitioning some (or all) of your end users to Linux, you may have encountered a few hurdles. They aren’t huge hurdles, but they can be tricky for users who can’t innately learn the ways of a different desktop and operating system. In some cases, they just need to learn some new terminology. In [...]
Emerging technologies tend to be the catalyst for moving certain development paradigms and best practices into the mainstream. Call it the “Can’t Buy Me Love” phenomenon, named for the 80s movie in which a nerd boosts his popularity by hiring his high school crush to pose as his girlfriend. The latest example seems to be [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. /etc/passwd file /etc/passwd The /etc/passwd file is a text file that contains important information about each user in Linux Operating Systems. Some of this info, is username, UID, GID, shell, home directory, and some other. From Wikipedia: The file is named as originally it also contained the data used [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. etc shadow file /etc/shadow file Description This files stores passwords in an encrypted mode, in modern Unix-like systems, (later than 1990). Before this date the passwords were stored in the /etc/passwd file. In the passwd file the passwords were also shadowed, but because any user has access to it, [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Out of disk space in Linux?, find who is using your space You will find here how to discover which directory or file is using your disk space, and therefore where makes more sence to start erasing files. This is assuming you have all partitions in one disk, if [...]
You can’t knock a good FOSS tutorial. While documentation, including tutorials, is often a weakness with open source applications–even very established ones–the good news is that there are some outstanding free tutorials on the web. They’re available for many projects and platforms. Sometimes these are delivered by the community behind particular projects, and sometimes they [...]