Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is out!
Finally after a long wait and 5 days of delay, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (LTS) is released officially by Canonical today. It was scheduled to be released on April 24th but was delayed due to some bug issues. However it has been fixed and is available for download. About 45 minutes before it’s official release, [...]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Download has leaked before official release!
Soon after seeing the Ubuntu’s Facebook status update, I headed over to #ubuntu-release-party IRC channel on freenode. It was really crowded over there with 1300+ users online in a single room. Just after few minutes, there were links being pasted by people. And they had kept their eyes so wide open, they had tracked each [...]
Command scheduling with cron
Have you ever missed an appointment because you were so absorbed in some thing that you totally lost the track of time? It’s a good thing if you were doing nuclear research at that time you probably didn’t want your link to be broken, but for most of us, missing appointments is a bad thing. [...]
Monitor Processes on your Linux with CLI
System Monitoring is one of the key factor to keep an eye on what’s really happening behind the scenes in your operating system. People who are very much interested in the system performance and optimization often tend to check the resource usage of various applications, components and other system related processes. There are many ways [...]
Setting Custom DNS In Linux
For all those unfortunate enough to have a very bad DNS from their service provider, the ability to set your own DNS is a must. Here I will be giving a short tutorial on how to set a DNS using network manager under gnome. What you need to do is :- Go to networkmanager -> [...]
How to insert Special Characters in Linux
Ever wanted to type some simple and very widely used characters other than the $ sign? A £ maybe? Or a ¢? Maybe you just wanted a © or ® symbol for your blog. This can be really painful under Linux as you will have to enter character map, or maybe copy the letter from [...]
How to disable updates in Ubuntu
One of the best thing about Ubuntu is that the availability of constant updates. The download includes updates for the operating system and its application as well. The interval between updates is so shorter it makes you to get updates almost every day or sometimes more than once in a day. Though this is good [...]
Separating Sudoers History
Is there a way to seperate the history for all the admin user accounts who ultimately make use of the command ‘su’? Instead of having all the history dumped into a single history file, why not have multiple history files, each corresponding to the particular user in question? Using a simple bash script you can [...]
How to Hide Files in a Picture
Did you ever get into (a lot of) trouble because someone found some information on your computer they should not have? Want to hide sensitive information from spying eyes? Here’s the best way to deceive all such nosy people away. An image file like JPG is read from the beginning of the file and terminated [...]
How to change GRUB Splash Screen
You might have been tired of the same old text mode GRUB splash screen in your Linux box, right? (Especially those of you who use Ubuntu just for the looks of it ) And maybe, you want to switch over from that blue and black hell to something better. Maybe a more realistic hell with [...]
