Posts Tagged ‘ ubuntu ’

If you miss the notification that used to be in the 8.10 notification area telling you new updates are available you can get it back by quite easily by issuing the following command. gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false Then you just kill and restart update-notifier and you will have your icon for update-notifier...
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This is one of those things that tends to get under my skin. Web sites with long pages showing far too much information on the front page. Realistically I think the best approach is to give users access to plenty of information, but not necessarily having them bombarded with it. For the WordPress Default...
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This is just a quick look at cleaning up an Ubuntu system. This is all documented elsewhere by an abundance of people, some of whom I no doubt took this off in the past and have forgotten where now (If you’re that person, then thanks very much, this stff has been coming in handy...
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“GNS3 is a graphical network simulator that allows simulation of complex networks.” I was recently pointed in the direction of this app as a pretty nice graphical interface to the Dynamips / Dynagen router simulation. It still uses Dynamips / Dynagen underneath, along with Pemu (a Cisco PIX firewall emulator based on Qemu), but...
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This is a slimmed down version of a combination of the Dynamips / Dynagen Tutorial and a few other Ubuntu specific sources. In fact, you could call it a quick and dirty guide to get you up and running. I reccommend using the Dynamips / Dynagen Tutorial once you have finished here picking up...
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I’ve often found that I can’t delete items I’ve copied from a CD or DVD using the GUI Trash folder. In fact, this can happen with a variety of files from a variety of places but, to be honest, I have a habit of not correcting the permissions on these files before blindly hitting...
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