Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category
Monday, March 24th, 2008
This post is about how to install Debian GNU Linux from your hard disk, with the help of your Ubuntu GNU Linux operating system and without using CDrom, floppy, or any other removeable media.
I have tried a few Linux distros and of course Microsoft Windows and I can say confidently ...
Posted in Debian, GNU, Grub, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
XFCE does not come with a system monitor utility like the one I had in Gnome. I used the utility to kill unresponsive processes. So how do we kill unresponsive programs using the terminal? To understand how Linux handles processes and how you can control them read this great article ...
Posted in Linux, Tips, XFCE | 5 Comments »
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
I have tried several Email Clients and Feedreaders on Ubuntu and my primary Debian Operating System. But now I was feeling that why bother with any more software when you have Google and Firefox (Iceweasel on Debian). So, I decided to make myself a script that automatically opens my Gmail ...
Posted in Debian, Firefox, Google, Google Office, Tips | 4 Comments »
Monday, May 7th, 2007
I had a problem with gnome-volume-control. It didn't save my volume control settings and displayed a mute sign on every startup.
While trying to solve this issue, I did something (I don't remember what it was) that totally messed my sound configuration and now gnome-volume-control stopped working at all. Today ...
Posted in Debian, Gnome, Linux, Tips | No Comments »
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Ok so you have installed Ubuntu and loved the pretty and easy Gnome interface, now what? May be you are thinking, that this Ubuntu is just another operating system. It is indeed just another operating system. But, this one is a Debian Linux based operating system. Sooner or later you ...
Posted in Debian, Free Software, Gnome, Tips, Ubuntu, applications | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Recently I realized that the Disks utility was showing 8.6 GiB consumed on my Ubuntu partition (I have Xubuntu installed on another partition and have one FAT partition). I decided to free up some disk space by deleting temporary files. I found that there is no tool in Dapper to ...
Posted in Dapper, Gnome, KDE, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Monday, November 13th, 2006
I haven't upgraded to Edgy yet. I really want to but I am afraid to loose the stability, usefulness and the charm of Dapper that comes with Long Term Support. I was looking around to see what kind of trouble people facing while upgrading to Edgy from Dapper. To my ...
Posted in Dapper, Edgy, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »