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Integrate google calendar into your gnome calendar
To integrate google calendar events into your gnome desktop, go to google calendar, click on "settings", then on the "calendars" tab and then on your calendar's name:Then, at…
Find details about your ISO images from the Linux command line
If you want to find the details of an iso image before burning or using it, you can get that by just typing this at terminal:isoinfo -d -i…
Recover your Linux Root Password
Just follow the below steps to recover it.1. Reboot your system and at the GRUB press "e". Edit the first line and make sure it says "linux single".…
Dansguardian: Unable to getgrnam(): Success, Error opening/creating log file.
Even after you have successfully installed dansguardian in your system, you may a get an error 'Unable to getgrnam(): Success' when you try to run dansguardian.Follow these steps…
Howto: Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows on RAID 10
If you choose to dual boot and run both Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista, you run the risk of losing your data when a hard drive dies. To…
HP printer Installation Wizard for your Linux ( Boss,Debian,Fedora, ubuntu, suse .. )
Now get the driver for your HP printer from here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install_wizard/index.htmlSelect your distro, version, Printer Type & Model.At the bottom of this post you can see…
Increase the system wide sound (volume) in your linux (ubuntu etc..)
Here is another trick to increase the sound (soft volume) in Ubuntu Linux, this time system-wide.1. Edit your /etc/asound.conf file.On your terminal type$ sudo gedit /etc/asound.conf2. Paste the…
Browse Internet faster in Linux with Ziproxy
Ziproxy is forwarding, non-caching, compressing HTTP proxy server.Basically it squeezes images by converting them to lower quality JPEGs or JPEG 2000 and compresses (gzip) HTML and other text-like…
Increase MPlayer’s volume to 300% (linux ubuntu etc..)
You can increase your MPlayer's soft volume to 300% by just typing this simple command at terminal:mplayer -softvol -softvol-max 300 'file_name.avi'and replace file_name.avi with the video file name…
awk: Find and Replace text
Syntax awk 'Program' Input-File1 Input-File2 ... awk -f PROGRAM-FILE Input-File1 Input-File2 ...If no Input-File is specified then `awk' applies the Program to "standard input", (piped output of some…
Dock applications
Avant Window Manager, Cairo Dock, and Wbar are dock-like applications for Ubuntu Linux. A dock represents running programs as icons at the bottom of the screen (as is…
Convert PDF files to JPEG, TIFF and more..
Use ImageMagic's convert program to convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.To install…