Default Ubuntu directories and their purposes

/ The root of the virtual directory. Normally, no files are placed here /bin The binary directory, where many GNU user-level utilities are stored  /boot The boot directory, where boot files are stored /dev The device directory, where Linux creates device nodes /etc The system configuration files directory /home The home directory, where Linux creates user directories /initrd Location of files used during the boot process if a RAM...

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How to Mount Your Partitions Permanently in Ubuntu

                                    Linux machines are very much aware in the case of security, but this extra security may sometimes become a headache for simple linux users. For example, if u have separate partitions or hard drives (for your backup, music collection or photo collection), every time you boot up, you have to...

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Speed up the startup and shutdown process in Windows XP : registry tweak

Let's try some trick for increasing the speed of booting and shutting down of Windows XP through the group policy editing.  Open the RUN command using Windows+ R key combination or from the  start menu and type notepad. In NOTEPAD, copy del C:windowsprefetch tosboot-*.*/q And save it as ntosboot.bat in your computer Again open the RUN command and type gpedit.msc  Click on the COMPUTER CONFIGURATION in the left side pane , under that double click WINDOWS SETTINGS and then double...

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Keyboard shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox

CTRL + ASelect all text on a webpage CTRL + BOpen the Bookmarks sidebar CTRL + CCopy the selected text to the Windows clipboard CTRL + DBookmark the current webpage CTRL + FFind text within the current webpage CTRL + GFind more text within the same webpage CTRL + HOpens the webpage History sidebar CTRL + IOpen the Bookmarks sidebar CTRL + JOpens the Download Dialogue Box CTRL + KPlaces the cursor in the Web Search box ready to type your search CTRL + LPlaces the cursor into the URL box ready to...

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Spice your terminal with fortune telling cow and tux in Ubuntu

                              Usually working with the terminal for a long time is a boring task even if you are a geek. Let spice up your gnome terminal with some add-ons, say a cow speaking interesting fortunes. If you are familiar with linux mint, you can see it is an unavoidable feature in the mint's terminal. . . . installation Take the gnome...

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Important RUN commands for Windows users

             Following are the important run commands that can be used easily for starting some programsin Windows.  To open the run dialog box press the  Windows+R key or goto start and then run.          Accessibility Controls  -  access.cpl      Accessibility Wizard     – accwiz      Add Hardware - Wizardhdwwiz.cpl     ...

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Registry hack : Speed up internet in Windows

In Windows the Microsoft uses a good amount of your internet bandwidth for Windows Updates. Lets do the following registry edit to avoid this bandwidth sharing. Follow the steps below : Go to Start, open Run and type gpedit.msc, then enter. This will open the group policy editor. Navigate to Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Network / QOS Packet Scheduler. Now, Click QOS Packet Scheduler and then double click Limit Reservable Bandwidth. You will see that...

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How to hide a hard disk drive in Windows

Through this hack you can disable the display of local or networked drives when you open My Computer To Do this Follow The Steps 1Open the run dialog box from the start menu.Open Registry editor by typing regedit in the run dialog box. 2 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\  3Now in the right pane create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).  4 Now modify its value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal).  5Now restart your computer.  Now...

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How to change the My Documents, Program Files location in Windows

 How to change the location of the My Documents  folder  By default the location of the my documents folder in Windows is C: drive (not alwys, usually the drive where you installed Windows) Open the run dialog box from the start menu. 1 Open Registry editor by typing regedit in the runn dialog box. 2 Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ Shell Folders 3Double click on the "Personal"  on the right pane to edit the location...

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Hacking the cd command

                                                                                                                The cd command is a bash command in linux is meant for changing the directory in a terminal environment. This...

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How to take a Screenshot from the Command Line

There is no need of a graphical utility to take the screen shot of your desktop, no need to wonder how.. Lets try it with your terminal. Terminal is a powertool and solution to all the problems in linux The advantage of using commandline tool is that if you need to take a screenshot in an environment, where you cannot run a graphical screenshot utility prefer this method. 1. Take a Screenshot from an X Terminal Take the gnome terminal and type in as follows    $ sleep 5; import -window...

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Compiz effects

Enabling, Rotating and playing with Desktop   cube On the settings manager, Mark the box corresponding to the Desktop Cube button. Then click on the Desktop cube to configure the behaviour, appearance and transparency options corresponding to the  to the Desktop cube.  Rotate the cube Mark the box corresponding to the Rotate Cube. Click on the icon to change the settings related to the cube rotation.        Cube Reflection and Deformation...

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