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Howto Tweak Ubuntu

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This tool is for ubuntu which makes it easy to change hidden system and desktop settings.Ubuntu Tweak is only for GNOME desktop environment.This is still under heavy development and very good utility for ubuntu users.
Ubuntu Tweak Features

GNOME Session Control
Show/Hide and Change Splash screen
Show/Hide desktop icons or Mounted Volumes.
Show/Hide/Rename Computer, Home, Trash icon or Network icon
Use […]

Ubuntu Tip : Mount/Unmount .iso Images in One click

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Gmount-iso is a small tool written using PyGTK and Glade. It allows you to easily mount your cd images. This is a frontend to the ‘mount -o loop -t iso9660 foo.iso /mountpoint’ command.
Install gmountiso in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install gmountiso
This will complete the installation.
Using gmountiso
If you want to open go to Applications—>System Tools—>Gmount-iso

Once it opens you […]

Howto Setup iTunes-compatible Media server in Ubuntu

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mt-daapd is a DAAP server that works with most POSIX compatible operating systems. It allows you to share your music collection over the local network using the same protocol iTunes uses, so real iTunes users may peruse your music.
Moreover, if your music is in more esoteric formats like FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, or Musepack, these can […]

Hotwire - A New graphical terminal

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Hotwire is a graphical shell intended to replace the interactive command execution portion of a typical Unix shell. It includes much of the functionality found in the combination of a terminal emulator, a shell, and core utilities like ls and grep.
Install Hotwire in Ubuntu Gutsy
Download Hotwire .deb package from here
Now you should be having hotwire_0.599-1~getdeb1_all.deb […]

Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs) in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

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MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 […]

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) LAMP Server Setup

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In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.

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Saving Power on Intel Hardware Using Powertop

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PowerTOP is a Linux tool that finds the software component(s) that make your laptop use more power than necessary while it is idle. As of Linux kernel version 2.6.21, the kernel no longer has a fixed 1000Hz timer tick. This will (in theory) give a huge power savings because the CPU stays in low power […]

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Release Dates

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In addition to Ubuntu 6-months stable releases and the next version of ubuntu is 8.04 with Code Name “Hardy Heron” but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop.
Hardy Heron was announced on […]

Upgrade Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

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The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the version 7.10 of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Gobuntu, and Xubuntu codenamed “Gutsy Gibbon”. This includes installable live Desktop CDs, server images, alternate text-mode installation CDs, and an upgrade wizard for users of the current stable release.
Before Upgrading You need to remember the following Important point
Take complete backup […]

How to connect Motorola V3X to ubuntu 7.04 trough USB

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In this tutorial we will learn how connect your Motorola V3X to ubuntu 7.04 trough USB
First of all, we will download the moto4lin utility from the repositories.
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install moto4lin
Once installed, we need to change the configuration file of moto4lin.
cd $HOME/.qt
gedit moto4linrc
We change the old values to this ones. The most important values […]