I have Windows and Ubuntu dual boot on my machine. There’s only a boot-able ubuntu live-usb for recovering if I mess them up. This tutorial shows how to restore mbr the Windows bootloader from installed Ubuntu or Ubuntu livecd/usb. There are two ways to do it: First of all, boots into Ubuntu live-system and make […]
Restore Windows 7 Bootloader (MBR) with Ubuntu
TestDisk – Recover Lost Partitions and Undelete Files in Ubuntu
TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. TestDisk can: Fix […]
Recover lost files from harddisk, digital camera in Ubuntu
There’s a good digital picture and file recovery tools works in Ubuntu, it’s called PhotoRec which recovers video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has […]
How to Easily Create a Private Encrypted Folder in Ubuntu
To create a private encrypted folder in ubuntu is very easy by ecryptfs. eCryptfs is a cryptographic stacked Linux filesystem. eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decrypted with the proper key in the Linux kernel keyring. There […]
Get your fingerprint reader to work on Ubuntu using FPrint
If you get a fingerprint reader, you can set up a fingerprint authentication functionality to Ubuntu, including a seamless integration into GNOME 2.x, Unity and GNOME 3.x using FPrint. you need to have a supported fingerprint reader. Supported devices are: 045e:00bb 05ba:0007 08ff:2580 045e:00bc 05ba:0008 08ff:5501 045e:00bd 05ba:000a 1162:0300 045e:00ca 061a:0110 138a:0001 0483:2015 08ff:1600 147e:1000 […]
Install Vmware Player (Fix Virtual Network Device) in Ubuntu 12.04
This is a simple VMware Player installation guide on Ubuntu 12.04 with ‘Virtual Network Device’ compiling error fixed. The installation file was downloaded from vmware official site. 1. Download VMware Player Download VMware package from this page. It’s free, but need to register and log-in to start downloading. Select VMPlayer for Linux. I’m running on […]
Enable XDMCP Remote Login in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS LightDM
This is simple guide about enable xdmcp service on Ubuntu 12.04 for user/root remote login. Precise uses the LightDM, so this method also works on ubuntu 11.10 with default LightDM display manager. To enable xdmcp: Edit lightdm config file with your favorite editor: sudo vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Add two lines at the end and save the […]
Install and Setup LAMP (apache2, php5, mysql) in Ubuntu 12.04 Server
I just purchased a vps and made it boot Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, installed LAMP web server and moved my web site. Here’s how did I install and set up the LAMP on Ubuntu 12.04 server. (All commands in this post assumes you have Root privilege, add sudo at beginning if need) 1. LAMP stands for […]
How to Install Linux Kernel 3.4.0 on Ubuntu 12.04/11.10
The first stable version of Linux Kernel 3.4 has been released few days ago. For new changes and prominent features in Linux 3.4, refer to this page. This tutorial shows how to install the linux kernel 3.4.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10. There’re two ways: installing the .deb packages and using the repositories of Ubuntu […]
Change Order of Unity Application Indicators in Ubuntu 12.04
Since Unity became the default DE in Ubuntu, it’s not easy to customize the panel. Appication indicators used to be movable by right-clicking on icons, but now unity’s panel indicator doesn’t. For now there’s not any tweak tool but only editing the configuration file can change the indicators’ order. For global, all user will take […]
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