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Author: Dipin Krishna

General Mar 30, 2010 1 min read

How to increase the priority of a running process in Linux

Kernel decides how much processor time is required for a process based on the nice value. Possible nice value range is: -20 to 20. A process that has…

ubuntu 10.04 Mar 23, 2010 1 min read

How to make Ubnutu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Multimedia Ready

In Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", the universe, multiverse and restricted repositories are activated by default. For installing Multimedia files you need to add medibuntu repositories. Run the following…

ubuntu 10.04 Mar 23, 2010 1 min read

Upgrading to 10.04 Lucid Lynx from Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

To upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 on a desktop system 1. Press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager -d" (without the quotes) into the command box. 2. Update Manager should…

General Mar 22, 2010 1 min read

How to view the performance details of individual CPUs in the top command

You can view the performance details of each CPUs of your machine in the top command by pressing 1 (number one) while the top command is running.one). $…

ubuntu 10.04 Mar 17, 2010 1 min read

Resolve Skype video chat (web cam) issue in ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Problems using WebCam in Skype. I installed Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bits). After installing, i found that the color webcam display looked ''green''. I had faced the…

General Mar 15, 2010 1 min read

Execution Sequence of .bash_* files

Execution sequence for interactive login shellexecute /etc/profileIF ~/.bash_profile exists THEN execute ~/.bash_profileELSE IF ~/.bash_login exist THEN execute ~/.bash_login ELSE IF ~/.profile exist…