How to Enable the Root User Account in Ubuntu Linux
This guide will show you how to enable the “root” user in Ubuntu, and how to allow the root user to use Gnome. …
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Month: May 2009
How to Stop Ubuntu From Asking for Your sudo Password
This short guide will explain how to configure Ubuntu so that you don’t need to type your password each time you use the sudo command. …
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How to Create a Multi Part Tar File with Linux
This guide will explain how to split a large file into multi-part .tar files, and how to put them back together again. …
How to View a Configuration File Without the Comments
This guide will give you a couple of options/suggestions on how to view a config file in Linux without the comments. …
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How to Change the Ubuntu Login Screen
This detailed and step by step guide will show you how to change the login screen and lock screen in Ubuntu Linux. …
How to Convert a PDF to a Text (.txt) File
This guide explains how to convert a PDF file into a text file (.txt) that you can then edit etc. …
Guide to Using YUM on Fedora Linux
This guide will take you step by step through the process of installing, setting up and using YUM on your Fedora Linux based computer. …
How to Create a Symlink (shortcut) in Linux
This guide explains what a symlink is, why you might want to use them, and how to use them – in Linux. …
How to Install and Manage Packages in Linux with RPM
This guide will explain how to use RPM (the Redhat Package Manager) to install and manage software in Linux. …
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How to Create a Custom Font From Your Own Handwriting
This guide will show you how to create a font to use on your computer that’s based on your own handwriting. …
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How to Compress, Move, and Extract a Directory in Linux
The other day I needed to migrate a directory containing a lot of files from one location on my Linux server to another. There are a number of ways I could do this. Using a simple cp command could have done the trick. However, as the data I was copying was a database and I wanted to make sure that the copying was done perfectly, I looked on the Internet and found a brilliant one line bash solution for this. …
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How to Change the Default Web Browser in Ubuntu
This guide will show you two different ways to change your default web browser in Ubuntu Linux – via the command line or using Ubuntu Settings. …
How to Determine if Your CPU Supports Windows 7 “XP Mode”
This brief tutorial will show you how to quickly figure out if your current CPU supports Windows 7’s “Windows XP Mode” feature. …
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How to Add and Remove Services from Startup on Fedora Linux
This guide explains how to add and remove services from starting automatically each time you boot your PC running Fedora Linux. …
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How to Schedule Tasks in Linux Using the ‘at’ Command
This guide will show you how to use the at command in Linux so that you can schedule jobs to run automatically at some point in the future. …
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