Dipin krishna

I recently installed the Ubuntu Remix on my netbook. The most annoying feature i found was the ‘Maximus’. It maximizes every window you open, even small windows which should not be maximized. This is how you can disable this feature. Press Alt + F2, enter gconf-editor, Go to -> /apps/maximus/no_maximize and set it to “true”… Read More »How to disable the Auto Maximize feature in Ubuntu Remix 9.10 Karmic Koala

UPDATE: Skype has now been uploaded to the “partner” official Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx repository. See Install Skype in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx from official partner repository Command Line way Get the package:For 32-bit$ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-32For 64-bit$ wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-64 You will need to install the following libraries. $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2… Read More »How to install Skype on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

To generate a SSH key pair use the command ‘ssh-keygen’. $ ssh-keygen -t dsa This will ask you to enter a file to save the key. The default is ‘.ssh/id_dsa’ in your home directory. Generating public/private dsa key pair.Enter file in which to save the key (/home/dipin/.ssh/id_dsa):  Press ‘Enter’ to accept the default.Now it will… Read More »How to generate a SSH key in Linux ( ubuntu debian fedora)

Ubuntu always keeps the old kernel even after installing a new kernel. This is done just in case the new one doesn’t work well for you. Now if you don’t want the old kernels anymore then use the command below to remove the old kernel which you wish to remove. $ sudo apt-get remove –purge… Read More »How to uninstall or remove old kernels in Ubuntu

Network load balancing is now a key feature that is required for all enterprises, especially financial companies. This capability balances network sessions like web, email, etc over multiple connections in order to spread out the amount of bandwidth used by each LAN user, thus increasing the total amount of bandwidth available. Additionally, network load balancing… Read More »What is Inbound and Outbound Network Loadbalancing

when you type sudo command for the first time in a terminal it will ask you the sudo password.This password will be remembered by that terminal for 15 minutes by default. If you want terminal to ask for password each time you type sudo command just do as said below.1. Type at terminal sudo visudo… Read More »How to make terminal ask for password every time you type sudo command

when you type sudo command for the first time in a terminal it will ask you the sudo password.This password will be remembered by that terminal for 15 minutes by default. If you want that terminal to remember your password for ever during its life time follow these steps.1. Type at terminal sudo visudo 2.… Read More »How to make a terminal remember sudo passowrd for ever

If you want to reinstall and reconfigure all packages in your Ubuntu just type the following command in terminal. sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a

Ubuntu includes a very limited shortcut key configuration utility which doesn’t allow you to assign hotkeys to your own applications or scripts. To get around this limitation, we can use the built-in gconf-editor utility to assign them ourselves.First you’ll want to load up gconf-editor by typing it into the Alt+F2 Run dialog. Once in the… Read More »How to Assign Custom Shortcut Keys on Ubuntu 9.10

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Google released a beta version of Chrome for Linux and browser extensions for users of beta and developer builds. The final step for Chrome on Linux will be to be released on what Google calls the stable channel, as opposed to the beta and developer channels. Google’s design goals for Chrome, which represents the foundation… Read More »Google Chrome is now available for Linux

The df utility displays statistics about the amount of free disk space on the specified file system or on the file system of which file is a part. Values are displayed in 512-byte per block counts. If neither a file or a file system operand is specified, statistics for all mounted file systems are displayed.… Read More »How to display free disk space of drives (hard disk)

Utube Ripper is an application written in Gambas that works exclusively on Linux. It’s useful to download and convert Youtube videos in a simple and efficient way. You can also convert them into a non-flash format. You can use the “Rip audio only” option to extract audio from a YouTube video and can convert into… Read More »How to download and convert Youtube videos in Linux

“Never use rewritable discs for long-term storage.”— Library of US Congress Website “Storage media such as compact discs and DVDs that were thought to last, don’t — they often fail within a few years.” The inventor of the Cranberry DiamonDisc, has eliminated all the failure points in DVD technology. The result is a diamond-like DVD… Read More »Diamond-like DVD that will last for centuries and is not susceptible to failure

Use two simple commands to convert a protected pdf into an unprotected pdf. Here in this example i assume the protected pdf file name to be ‘protected.pdf’. Now open your terminal and type. $ pdftops protected.pdf out.ps$ pstopdf out.ps out.pdf The out.pdf will be your unprotected PDF. If you don’t have pstopdf and pdftops installed… Read More »Convert copy protected PDFs to unprotected, using two simple commands in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a custom user interface for the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution designed to play well with laptops with small screens. Instead of dealing with a panel and a series of drop down menus, Ubuntu Netbook Edition has a series of categories on the left side. Click on Accessories, Games, Internet, Office, or… Read More »Change in name from “Ubuntu Netbook Remix” to “Ubuntu Netbook Edition”

Go is an open source project, distributed under a BSD-style license. This document explains how to check out the sources, build them on your own machine, and run them. First of all you need to set some Environment variables The Go compilation environment depends on three environment variables that you should set in your .bashrc… Read More »How to Install Google’s Go language on Ubuntu Linux

 These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements… Read More »How to download and Install Skype on Fedora 12

You might have had experience with your ubuntu system hang up due to some applications (this happens sometimes with Firefox and some games). You can actually login to one of your other terminals and stop the applications which is causing problems. 1. Use Alt + Ctrl and any function key F1 through F7. Where F7… Read More »Access different terminals to shut down (kill) programs that have frozen in Ubuntu

Google have been working on a particularly interesting project that combines Google Maps and search technology – they have been trying to work out if our search query in Google Maps means we are interested in having current real estate listings returned to us. Now, simply searching for “real estate” on google maps will return,… Read More »Now find the property you want on Google Maps