important bash commands for system administration

As you know the terminal is the power tool that every linux user may have to come in contact even once in their computer life. Here is a post about controlling and managing your system using the gnome terminal. How to shut down the system   $shutdown -h now The word 'now' is enough to shutdown the system at this instant itself. You must be sudo before executing this command. You can specify the time instead of the word 'now' so that the system will shut after that time limit. Other ...

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How to recover Grub 2 in Ubuntu

The new versions of Ubuntu from 9.10 are preloaded with the new version of the Grub ie. Grub 2 as the default boot loader. Grub 2 has many modification over the previous versions. It is driven by a group of scripts in different directories in /boot and /etc. I have already blogged about configuring grub 2 to change the appearence, adding a background image etc... on to the boot loader menu in a previous post. This post is all about restoring the grub 2 in an occasion where you lost your current...

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how to install gnome-do application launcher in Ubuntu

GNOME Do is a free application launcher for Linux originally created by David Siegel, and currently maintained by Alex Launi. It is better than other application launchers because it not only allows searching for applications and files but it also allows specifying actions to perform on search results by providing instantaneous, action-oriented search results that preferred by the users.  It is equipped with different appearence or styles, the important of them are docky style and glass...

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How to install the Ubuntu netbook remix launcher in Ubuntu 10.04

                     Ubuntu netbook remix is a new and light version of the ubuntu linux with appearance customized for the netbooks to compete with the moblin. For gods sake it's also applicable in desktops and laptops too. This post is about my experiments with the ubuntu netbook remix.                      ...

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How to change the desktop background automatically in ubuntu

Desktop drapes is a wonderful software that automatically switches the desktop background of the ubuntu. You can configure it so that how much time a picture should be shown as the background image or select a folder so that the pictures in that folder will be used as the desktop background one after the another. How to install the drapes . . . $ sudo apt-get install drapes ...

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How to setup your mobile phone to recieve email alerts (for Nokia)

                        You can read or write emails from your mobile phone without any phone browsers (wap/web) by following this post. All the gprs enabled mobile handsets of Nokia comes up with an email client which is similar to outlook express or evolution or thunderbird but with basic inbox features such as sending and receiving only. Inorder to get this client working properly...

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How browse wap sites using Mozilla Firefox

wapsites are a great source of music and videos that can be used in your mobile phones free of cost. By default the desktop browsers do not support loading the wapsites, istead they have support only for different website formats . This trick is all about equipping the firefox browser to load the wapsites by installing an addon called wmlbrowser... Select Add-ons from the tools menu in the firefox. Click on the Get addons button and enter wmlbrowser in the search box. Install the addon completely...

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How to add Twitter and Facebook gadgets to gmail inbox

This is simple technic lets you to add both the facebook and twitter gadget to the left side of your gmail inbox. You can see the tweets, direct messages and perform all the twitter activities from within your gmail account. The case is same for the facebook also... Follow the steps to setup this feature in your gmail inbox. 1. Login  to your gmail account and take the google labs from the more --> even more button. 2. You will be redirected back to your inbox, with settings tab...

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