Linux Tips

Fatresize: Re-size your Fat File System via Command Line

20.01.2012 08:45 Fatresize is a command line tool for resizing MS Windows FAT16 / FAT32 file systems. Installation $ sudo apt-get install fatresize How to use: Fatresize follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes . A summary of options is included below. -h –help: Show summary of options. -s –size:

How to make Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Multimedia ready

20.01.2012 08:45 Restricted Extras The Ubuntu Restricted Extras will install Adobe Flash Player, Java Runtime Environment with Firefox plug-ins , a set of Microsoft Fonts , multimedia codecs , mp3-compatible encoding , FFMpeg, extra Gstreamer codecs, the package for DVD decoding , the unrar archiver, odbc,

How to Install Skype in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

20.01.2012 08:45 Skype is a free video calling service available for Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows. It’s a pretty simple piece of software with elaborate functionality. Install Skype in your Ubuntu 11.10 Terminal way 1. Open a terminal 2. Type sudo apt-get install skype to install skype 3. Type skype to launch Skype

Linux FTP Server Setup

20.01.2012 08:45 Starting vsftpd The methodologies vary depending on the variant of Linux you are using as you’ll see next. Fedora / CentOS / RedHat With these flavors of Linux you can use the chkconfig command to get vsftpd configured to start at boot: # chkconfig vsftpd on To start, stop, and restart vsftpd after booting

View your BIOS Settings via command line using dmidecode and biosdecode

20.01.2012 08:45 The Desktop Management Interface generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server components , by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. Modern mother boards are compatible with this standard. For a lay user it means that the BIOS settings can be watched from your

Computer Inside Your Computer: How To Use VirtualBox

20.01.2012 08:45 VirtualBox is a free, open source, cross-platform application for creating, managing and running Virtual Machines . You’ve heard a lot about Linux and you’d love to try it out, but you don’t know enough to take the plunge and install it alongside Windows – maybe you’re worried you’ll wipe all your files off in the

How to install Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

20.01.2012 08:45 Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot comes with Unity preinstalled. Unity is a shell interface for the Gnome Desktop Environment developed by Canonical for its Ubuntu Operating System. On Ubuntu 11.10 it’s pretty easy to install Gnome Shell and Gnome Shell classic, the one with a panel at top and one at the bottom. To install Gnome

How to Disable PING response in Ubuntu Linux

20.01.2012 08:45 Ping is used to check if a machine is up. Most of the hackers do use ping to find a online machine. By blocking ping, you can reduce the chance of getting your machine hacked. You can disable ping by adding following line to /etc/init.d/networking echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all to re-enable echo 0

Xrandr: Solve Screen Resolution Issues via command line in Ubuntu / Debian

20.01.2012 08:45 Xrandr is a command line utility available in your Linux system for reseting and resizing your screen resolution. So, if there is any issues with your display, no problem you can fix it from a Terminal. First You have to find the possible resolutions with xrandr -q $ xrandr -q Screen

World’s Cheapest Tablet Running Android for educational institutions

20.01.2012 08:45   World’s Cheapest Android, named Akash, produced in India. Students from India have a reason to celebrate the highly anticipated “Sakshat Tablet” was successfully launched in India on Wednesday. The tablet is called “Akash” and was jointly developed by India in collaboration with the Datawind, and can easily be obtained for 2,200/- in

Install LAMP in Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric ocelot

20.01.2012 08:45 LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Follow the steps below to setup an an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 support and MySQL support. 1. Login as root: sudo su 2 Installing MySQL 5 First we will install MySQL 5: apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client You will be asked to

Converting IMG files to ISO images via Command Line in Ubuntu

20.01.2012 08:45 Some time you will find CD images with .img extensions. IMG files are raw-data copies of optical media and are primarily used to store CDs with odd properties,such as sectors which need to have read errors when read. Conversion to ISO format removes this information,as ISO format does not support this. You can manipulate such

qrencode: Generate QR code via command line on Ubuntu

20.01.2012 08:45 A QR Code is a mobile phone readable barcode.simply encode a URL into the QR Code and then point a mobile phone at it. If the device has had QR Code decoding software installed on it, it will fire up its browser and go straight to

Types of selection in the X Window System

20.01.2012 08:45 The X Window System  provides 3 mechanisms that allow users to transfer data from one window to another:   Selections, cut buffers, and drag-and-drop . Since the two windows may be handled by two different applications, these mechanisms require two different clients connected with the

Overcome Internet Restrictions using ssh tunneling

20.01.2012 08:45 In most of our schools and offices several websites are blocked. Most of these offices and schools are using a proxy server such as squid along with squidguard or danceguardian to achieve access restrictions on users. Most often, the sys admins forget to block internet traffic using other protocols such as ssh , ftp etc.