Since Ubuntu turned to Unity desktop in Natty, the old “Connect to Server…” was moved to Nautilus file browser’s file menu. This simple tutorial will show you how to ssh, ftp, http access to remote server within Nautilus. 1. Launch Home Folder from the unity launcher, navigate to File -> Connect to Server…. 2. Now […]

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GRUB, also known as the GRand Unified Bootloader, is a modular, portable bootloader that supports a number of platforms. Grub 2.00 was released on Jun 28, see the release note. This tutorial will explain how to upgrade to grub 2.00(tested on Ubuntu 12.04). NOTE: Grub 2.00 has not been tested by Ubuntu, any problem may […]

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Nvidia driver 302.17 was released on Jun 15, with many improvements, bug fixes and new features. Read more about nvidia 302.17 This tutorials will explain you how to install this new driver on Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, 11.04 and 10.04 using PPA. Open up a terminal from the dash home(or press Ctrl+Alt+T), add the ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates to […]

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This tutorial will explain how to install Linux kernel 3.5 rc release using ppa. First open a terminal from the dash home(or press Ctrl+Alt+T), add the ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa by command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa Then do update and dist-upgrade. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade If you change your mind, execute following to install ppa-purge and remove […]

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vsftpd is a lightweight, efficient FTP server written for security, supports both anonymous and non-anonymous FTP access, PAM authentication, bandwidth limiting, and the Linux sendfile() facility. This tutorial will explain how to easily install and setup ftp server in Ubuntu using vsftpd. 1. Install vsftpd Search and install vsftpd in Ubuntu Software Center, or execute […]

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This simple tutorial shows how to easily convert DjVu to PDF file in Ubuntu system. DjVu is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, and photographs.It uses technologies such as image layer separation of text and background/images, progressive loading, arithmetic coding, and lossy […]

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This tutorial shows how to automatically download and install security updates in remote Ubuntu 12.04. If you manage remote ubuntu via ssh, follow the steps: 1. ssh to remote ubuntu, and install unattended-upgrades by: sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades 2. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades say “yes” to the prompt to enable automatic security updates. If there’s […]

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Nvidia Linux driver 295.59 was released days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 12.04/11.10 using personal package archive (PPA). Changes in Nvidia driver 295.59: Added support for the following GPUs: NVS 5400M NVS 310 GeForce GT 620M GeForce GT 640M GeForce GT 640M LE GeForce GT 650M GeForce GTX 660M GeForce GTX 670M […]

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In Ubuntu 12.04, lightDM login screen uses user’s desktop wallpaper as its background. If you don’t prefer this feature in your machine, here’s a way to set lightdm login screen background different to User’s desktop wallpaper. First open up a terminal window (search terminal from the dash, or press Ctrl+Alt+T) and do following commands. Allow […]

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In Ubuntu lightdm log-in screen, guest session can be logged in without a password. Although guest gets lower privilege and can’t run sudo command, you can remove it from login screen via following way. Edit LightDM configuration file “/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf”. This need root privilege, use sudo nautilus command to start file browser with super user. Or […]

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