Ubuntu
This is a simple note on how to access remote linux machine files through SSH from GNOME File browser Nautilus. My server is Debian Squeeze and Client is Ubuntu 10.04. Remote machine configuration Install the OpenSSH package as shown below. # apt-get install openssh-server Local machine configuration Install the OpenSSH client package as shown below, [...]
This is a little note on how to configure NFS (Network File System) server and mount it in Ubuntu. The server is Debian Squeeze and Client is Ubuntu 10.04. Here is how to get it done. Server configuration Step-1: Installing NFS packages. # apt-get install nfs-common portmap Step-2: Configuring file system to export Through NFS, [...]
rsnapshot is a software written in Perl to make backup of local and remote file system. The well proven rsync is behind this utility. rsnapshot does not need root user intervention to restore the data of a normal user. It does not take much space in your Backup server. It can be easily automated (scheduled) [...]
While I was watching the below youtube clip, I was not able to control my passion to try it out. This is actually a do it yourself cheap touch pad for your computer. This is a touch pad made with a good web cam, card board box and open source touchlib library. I was trying to get [...]
Recently I got a DisplayLink based 7" USB Monitor manufactured by Lilliput. The model is UM-70, which supports 800x480 resolution. It works without any external power. It takes power and graphics data from USB port. It has built-in Graphics chip from DisplayLink. Here is how I got it working in Ubuntu 10.04. Step-1. Fresh Ubuntu [...]
Are you a 24x7 command line guy? Chances of not switching to X console in your linux distro are more for you. Here is a command line weather report tool for you. This tool helps you to plan for your week-end trip while you are compiling some junks. It is easy to get it. Here [...]
Are you bored with limited features of screenshot tool in your linux distro? Here is the Shutter, an advanced screenshot tool. It is a must tool for any technology blogger and technical writer. It has amazing features defined as below by the project itself. This post is to introduce this wonderful tool to the community. [...]
GoogleCL is a project intended to access Google services from Linux command line. Uploading the pictures to Picasa Web Album is one such service. Though the intention of this project is to make the services easily accessible from command line, I have written a simple GUI wrapper script to make this service available from GUI [...]
Many times I have felt the sound clip played while login to Ubuntu desktop is unwarranted. I am not interested in this login sound, which makes my kids to come to me and start doing all possible things to prevent me from working. My Ubuntu version is 10.04. The following command plays the login sound [...]
Desktop recorder software is highly useful in teaching, tutorial and knowledge sharing side. That too in Open Source communities, the video tutorials are famous through YouTube. You can also make your own desktop recorded video tutorial using gtk-recordMyDesktop software in Ubuntu. This tool has matured a lot to make it easy to use and quality [...]
It is not uncommon to see dual boot installation featuring Ubuntu and Windows. I have seen many of my friends try to install Ubuntu in a partition keeping the Windows installation not disturbed. Now a days I suggest them to go for wubi installer, which creates a virtual partition in Windows file system to install [...]
Ubuntu uses Centralized password management tool called Seahorse. This tool is a front end GUI to GNOME's keyring management system. In simple this tool stores all passwords with a master password which is normally same as login password. This tool can manage your PGP keys, SSH Keys and pass phrases we use in different applications [...]
Many of us would have not forgotten the good old days of DOS. We use to play a lot while learning BASIC and Foxpro kind of stuff. Here is a way to play those DOS games in Ubuntu also. You need DOS emulator called DosBox. Let me brief how to do it. Step-1: Install the [...]
Ubuntu is having powerful applications in the default installation. Dictionary is one such. You can find Dictionary application in Ubuntu main menu -> Applications -> Office -> Dictionary. This application needs internet connection since it fetches data from dict.org server. By default this application is English - English dictionary. It is also capable of supporting [...]
Ubuntu release cycle is once in 6 months and Long Term Support (LTS) release is once in 2 years. Ubuntu follows version number in the format of YY.MM (i.e.: Year.Month). Here are two ways to find the your Ubuntu installation's version number. The Ubuntu version number is stored in two files in /etc path. Once [...]
Yesterday, My Ubuntu 10.04 was not able to boot, displaying "Continue to wait; Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery" due to file system error in / and /home partitions. I went ahead with Recovery boot option and run fsck on both / and /home file systems. / was OK. Then I [...]
Trash in GNOME is generally handled in Nautilus file browser. Trash icon's context menu provides shortcut to empty trash. But while working in command line, you may not prefer to empty trash by going to Trash icon in panel or file browser. In older version of GNOME, the trash folder is in .Trash folder in [...]
My Canon Handycam (Camcorder) makes high quality HD videos in .MTS file format. Though the quality of this file is of very high, still there is no good software to play this in Linux (so Ubuntu) without compromising the quality. VLC and Totem media players in Ubuntu 10.04 are able to play with a lot [...]
Disk Management in Ubuntu has become easy with Palimpsest tool called Disk Utility. This application is capable of managing a remote machine disks also. It connects to remote machine through secure shell connection (SSH). Though this application is the default Disk Management tool in Ubuntu, still the remote management is not supported out of box [...]
VMware is a leading virtualization solution to run multiple operating systems in a machine. Though it has tightly packed features in its pocket, still it is costlier and proprietary too. In the world of open source, there is an alternative to VMware which is called VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for [...]
Recently I messed up GRUB boot loader in my laptop installed with Ubuntu which resulted in grub rescue prompt. So I had to boot Ubuntu Live CD to get it fixed. Thought of blogging it, may be useful for some one. This fix involves two steps. First one is to chroot into Ubuntu installation partition. [...]
Hard disk is becoming crucial for our data storage in this digital age. We need sophisticated and simple to use tool to predict the failure and also to monitor the health status continuously. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a standard in Storage Industry to detect and report failures developed internal to the hard disk. Whether [...]
I prefer GMail web interface than any other desktop client. Out of the box you can't select GMail web interface as default mail client in GNOME on Ubuntu. But you can get it done with gnome-gmail application. Step-1: Download the latest installation package .deb from here and install it by double clicking it or through [...]
Here is how solved the missing libXm.so.4 error while launching Citrix Receiver (installed through XenApp client plugin) on Ubuntu. For some one who does not know what is Citrix Receiver, here is what Citrix says, Citrix Receiver™ with Citrix Dazzle™ gives users the power to go virtual and choose from where and how they will work. [...]
Once upon a time we faced a lot of dependency hell issues in Linux platforms. apt-get has matured enough such that this is not believable for newbies now. Kudos to Debian! Some times we want to know which package has one particular file we are interested. In some other times we want to know the [...]
