If your Windows can not boot up and you think the NTFS volume was damaged by Windows or some other way and it cannot be mounted.You can try ntfsfix command to fix this problem if you have a Ubuntu dual-boot system.
ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. ntfsfix is NOT [...]
If you’re running on ubuntu and want to install Windows 7 without burning a disc,you can try following steps to install Windows 7 with the iso file.
Step1:Download grub4dos from:http://download.gna.org/grub4dos/grub4dos-0.4.4-2009-06-20.zip Decompress the grub.exe and put this file into root directory of Ubuntu partition (”/”).
Step2:Create a 4GB ntfs partition and paste all files from Windows7 iso [...]
Hawksope is a cross-platform pluggable menu based launcher.With it,you can quickly read your gmail messages,access to twitter,instant access your delicious.com bookmarks,search with google and access hard drive contents.
Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray / menubar icon with dynamic pop-up menu.
Feature
* Completely Free [...]
Have you ever encountered your laptop cannot boot into ubuntu after power failure.When boot up ubuntu,system start checking and repairing and this always do not work.Try following and it may help!
First,boot up and let ubuntu auto repairing the system.If it doesn’t work,there will be two choices:press Ctrl+D to check and repair again or input supervisor [...]
If your Firefox insists on doing huge amounts of I/O when closing, as well as acts slow when using the awesomebar,you can try this great tip original from:http://weblog.savanne.be/153-performance-tip-of-the-day
First,close down your Firefox completely and try following in Applications->Accessories->Terminal:
for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f ‘VACUUM;’; done
this command just compacts your SQLite databases and no data will [...]
If you used to be a Windows user,you should prefer the Computer,Home,Network and Trash icons on your ubuntu gnome desktop.
Press Alt+F2 key combination,and this window pop up,type gconf-editor to start configuration editor.
Navigate to apps/nautilus/desktop in next window,check the marked four checkboxes and change their icon-name as you want.
Done.
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Mac4Lin brings the Mac OS X user interface to POSIX Operating Systems (GNU/LInux, FreeBSD, openSolaris etc.). The project is built for desktop environments based on GTK.
This tutorial shows how to install this Mac theme in ubuntu karmic and do some easy configurations.
Download and install Mac4Lin
First,let’s download the source package from:http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/files/
I download the version1.0,and my firefox [...]
When you’re operating on Ubuntu and want to visit Windows partitions,you can open up nautilus file-browser and just click the partition in left to view its files.However,it’s boring that a window pop up ask for password every time you click to mount a new partition.
This post shows how to disable this Authenticate window when click [...]
After a fresh ubuntu installation,we are used to manually configure network connection,install multi-media codec,install hardware drivers,change source for fast downloading,install common-used softwares and so on. However,there’s a great open source software called Ailurus that you can do this configurations just by one click.
Ailurus is an Ubuntu enhancement application. It can install/remove applications which do not [...]
As we know,when we are operating in ubuntu command console terminal,we type first few letters of command-name or file-name and press tab key instead of type the whole word.We also press up/down arrow key to find out history command we just typed.But if you create a new user with adduser command and want to do [...]
