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Mounting disks without root permissions

A very common problem in a default Ubuntu installation – especially if you have windows disks in your pc – is that the system mounts disks with root permissions, which makes things a little harder. By harder I mean you can’t easily modify or delete files, etc. The solution is easy, we need to tell […]

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How to install Google Chrome (Chronium) in Ubuntu 9.10

Lately I had a few crashes in Firefox, plus the browser was really slow at some sites. Anyway Chrome for linux is stable at the moment, and even that it is a little buggy (still on beta) it worths a try. To be honest I’ve switched to Chronium(Chrome for linux) to all my pcs as […]

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How to force ubuntu to check hard disks on startup

Today I have converted my laptop’s hard disk to ext4 and I wanted to perform a hard disk check just to be sure that everything was ok. As you may know there is a tool called e2fsck that checks hard disks for problems, but this will work best on an unmounted partition so I really […]

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“WARNING” – Linux commercial

Ok I know this is a little bit old one but is one of the coolest linux related commercials I have ever seen. Enjoy gaziantep evden eve taşımacılık gaziantep evden eve taşımacılık

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The lazy way to LAMP

Most web developers need a LAMP development server to deploy and test their apps. With Ubuntu – and any other linux – that is very easy. So in Ubuntu you can install a LAMP server just by running this command: sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin This way you have a […]

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The easiest way to try Ubuntu

As Ubuntu is going more into mainstream, many people around the world want to try this great operating system, but not many of them actually want to install it on their hard drives just for a preview or they are just afraid of that as an inexperienced user could possibly harm a system by doing […]

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Transmission, a lightweight bit torrent client for linux

Transmission is a lightweight but yet very powerful bit torrent client that you can use with any operating system besides windows. The cool thing about transmission is that it is full of features (web interface, cli support, encryption support, global and per torrent limits, etc) while it uses minimal system resources – it is written […]

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Link love Tuesday 2009-02-03

Bellow are some cool articles we found on other blogs recently. Feel free to send us your faves so we can add them in the next link series. uSbuntu Live Creator – Create LiveUSBs from Windows using a GUI Linus Torvalds ditches KDE 4 for GNOME Ubuntu LoCo Teams: One Big Family 5 Ways To […]

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The Ubuntu idea

Ubuntu is a great operating system, but also it is a great idea/philosophy. With a few words Nelson Mandela tell us what is it about. Enjoy the video

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Tilda an alternative terminal

Tilda is a small application that can be used instead of the classic terminal. Bellow are a few reasons that I prefer it from the classic terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) It opens/closes just by pressing the F1 button. Stays always on top, so it is easy to use it with an open firefox. […]