[How to ]Clone Your Ubuntu installation

If you want to create a system that is similar to a different system you have already set up, it can be difficult to remember each and every package you had installed.This method works best when you are exporting to and importing from the same distribution and, specifically, the same releasefor example, exporting from Ubuntu Dapper to Ubuntu Dapper or ubuntu edgy to ubuntu edgy.

Ubuntu uses the

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How to speed up internet connection in Ubuntu

Basically you disable ipV6 which apparently conflicts with ipV4, I'm no expert on the whys or hows but like I said, it worked for me.

1. Open your Gnome Terminal/ KDE Konsole and type :-
For Gnome

Quote:
gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
or For KDE

Quote:
kdesu kate /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
2. Kate or Gedit will open and show you this file :-
(scroll down to see what to copy and paste)

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Howto Share Internet Connections in Ubuntu

Network Bridge comes in handy. Its essentially the same as ICS, only more flexible, albeit less secure. You might want to have a firewall remain on your system with it.

Normally, using a series of commands will work when bridge-utils is installed, but they're only for the current session. We want to make it permanent.


Procedure to follow

1. Get bridge-utils through Synaptic. This is the

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How to Create a SSH Tunnel for Firefox to surf securely

A ssh tunnel for Firefox to a remote computer is good security measure. Especially when connecting via an untrusted network like a wifi hotspot or other public networks. The tunnel encrypts and sends the data to your remote machine then it is sent over the web to your destination. This tutorial assumes you have an account on a remote machine you can ssh into. This is a pretty easy set up.

Now

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[How to ] get list of non-free software Installed on your system

The vrms (Virtual Richard M. Stallman) program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed.

Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text from the public writings of RMS and others that explain why use of each of the installed non-free packages might

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How to Repair a corrupted filesystem in Ubuntu

You can repair a corrupted filesystem with the program "fsck".The system utility fsck (for "file system check" or "file system consistency check") is a tool for checking the consistency of a file system in Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux.


Note:-File systems must be unmounted, you cannot repair them while they are running.So fsck must ALWAYS be run on an UNmounted

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How to use Google Public DNS

Google unveiled its new project: Google Public DNS. It means now anybody can use Google’s DNS servers for resolving domain names into IP addresses and back. According to Google it should speedup browsing as well as security.


Here are easy-to-remember Google Public DNS IP addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

In order to set up Google public DNS to your Linux settings place the following lines into /

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How to install nVidia Graphics driver in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Take terminal 




Use the following command to add PPA


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nvidia-vdpau/ppa


Install GPG key using the following command


sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys CEC06767




Update package database


sudo apt-get update




finally install drivers 




sudo apt-get install nvidia-190-modaliases nvidia-glx-190 nvidia-settings-190

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Google Chrome for Linux Release

Official Google Blog: Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in betaGoogle Chrome for LINUX finally released , but only in .deb and .rpm format !!

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[How to solve ] Display cannot be reactivated if it enters sleep mode on Fedora 12

Due to a known bug, on some laptops with Intel video adapters, if the display goes into sleep mode with the laptop lid closed, it will not be reactivated when the laptop lid is opened. The display will stay blank unless you reboot or use the following workaround. To workaround this problem, create a file with the following contents:

#!/bin/bash
xrandr --output LVDS1 --off
xrandr --output LVDS1 -

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Howto : GfxBoot ( Grub like suse ) in Ubuntu

                                
Gfxboot makes grub look nicer but with the same features
 

Download the grub-gfxboot.deb
And the message.suse

First remove your old grub

Code:
sudo apt-get remove grubThen Install the gfxboot-grub
Code:
sudo dpkg -i grub-gfxboot_0.97-5_i386.debthen we're going to move the message
Code:
sudo cp message.suse /boot/grub/ # the suse can be replaced by the one

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Cricket Score applet for Gnome desktop

 


Cricket score applet is a  gnome-applet which will display score at gnome-panel, the same way, we see date/time. It is written in python. It will also score updates through libnotify module. Read more here

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How to : GNOME Shell ( Preview of GNOME 3.0 ) in Fedora 12

A very early version of GNOME Shell is now available in the repository. GNOME Shell is a key part of GNOME 3 and is in active development with the heavy involvement of Fedora developers and interaction designers. A simple way to try out GNOME Shell is to install the desktop-effects package
yum install desktop-effects gnome-shell Go to System => Preferences => Desktop Effects



If you would like

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[ How to ] Disable asking password of encrypted partitions during booting in Fedora 12

You can disable luks password prompt at boot by adding "rd_NO_LUKS" kernel flag to /boot/grub/grub.conf





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How to Automatic and timed login in Fedora 12 ( constantine )

edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf
and change it to

[xdmcp]
[chooser]
[security]
[debug][daemon]TimedLoginEnable=trueTimedLogin=your_user_nameTimedLoginDelay=0AutomaticLoginEnable=trueAutomaticLogin=your_user_name

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Package management on Ubuntu using dpkg

Installing a package manually.# dpkg -i aspell_0.60.6-1_i386.debRemoving the package# dpkg -r aspell#dpkg -P aspell ( Removes everything including config files.)Now Let us explore the contents of a deb package.Make a temporary directory.#mkdir aspell_tmpExtract the deb to the aspell_tmp directory.# dpkg -x aspell_0.60.6-1_i386.deb aspell_tmpYou can see the package contents.( Try ls -lR aspell_tmp

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