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Index
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Howtos
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- A "live" view of a logfile on Linux
- A multiple-language kiosk for Linux (Ubuntu Edgy)
- A new look at fonts in Ubuntu
- A quick guide to DVD authoring
- Accelerate Ubuntu upgrades with an ISO
- Access and Synchronize GetDeb.net packages through Apt-get and Synaptic
- Access your ext2 and ext3 partitions from Vista
- Access Your MySQL Server Remotely Over SSH
- Activate side-mouse-buttons in FireFox
- Ad Units for GIMP 2.4
- Add “Open with gedit” to the right click menu in Ubuntu
- Add a User on Ubuntu Server
- Add a “Refresh/Reload GUI” Button to your Gnome Panel
- Add Items to the Right-Click Menu in Nautilus
- Add Search Forms to the Firefox Search Bar
- Add the Trash Can Icon to Your Ubuntu Desktop
- Add Your Document Templates to GNOME
- Add/Remove Programs
- Adding a basket tool to OpenOffice.org
- Adding a CD-ROM or DVD repository
- Adding Avant Window Navigator to your Ubuntu install
- Adding extended character support
- Adding extra Repositories on Ubuntu
- Adding shortcuts to the right click menu in Ubuntu
- Adjust the Transparency of Window Decorations with Compiz
- Adjust touchpad sensitivity
- Adjusting MP3s with mp3gain
- Ajust LCD brightness from command line
- All about Linux swap space
- All your apt cache belongs to us!
- Allow Remote Control To Your Desktop On Ubuntu
- Allowing Limited Sudo Access With Visudo
- alternate method using apt
- Alternative Installation Methods for Gutsy
- An Ubuntu guide to taming the Linux kernel
- Analyze Network Protocols With Wireshark on Ubuntu
- Animated Wallpaper with Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu
- Anonymous browsing with JAP
- AntiVirus Server
- Apache HTTP Server
- Apache, MySQL & PHP on Ubuntu
- Apt, Software and Package Basics
- APTonCD - Back Up Your Packages Easily
- APTonCD: Your packages anywhere
- Assign a Hotkey to Open a Terminal Window in Ubuntu
- Assign Custom Shortcut Keys on Ubuntu Linux
- Assign Custom Shortcut Keys on Ubuntu Linux
- Audio Preview in Nautilus
- Automate Adding Bookmarks to del.icio.us
- Automate FTP with macros
- Automated backups in Linux
- Automated Ubuntu Installation Preview
- Automated user management with Expect
- Automatically Copy to Clipboard While Selecting Text in Firefox
- Automatically Find the Fastest Repository in Synaptic
- Automating Firefox with iMacros
- Azureus - Java BitTorrent Client in Ubuntu
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- Back up and print your blog with OpenOffice.org Base
- Backing up and restoring you thunderbird Data
- Backup Ubuntu System using Flyback
- Backing Up Data In Ubuntu Using sBackup
- Backing up in Ubuntu is Finally Made Simple: TimeVault
- Backup and Restore Ubuntu System using Sbackup
- Backup installed packages on ubuntu
- Backup Ubuntu System
- Backup Ubuntu using rdiff-backup
- Baobab: Check your filesystem used and free space
- Basic presentations with LaTeX Beamer
- BasKet makes organization easy
- Be heard: Podcasting with Linux
- Beautifulize the Boot Screen with Grub-GFXBoot
- Become a digital video editing guru using Linux tools
- Benchmark Your Linux System with HardInfo
- Block Ads with Ubuntu without installing anything
- Block SSH Login Attempts On Ubuntu
- Bookmark Sync and Sort: Bookmarks synchronisation with privacy
- Boost your blogging with ScribeFire
- Boost your Internet browsing - Install Polipo
- Boot Menu
- BootUp Manager
- Buddi: A simple way to track personal finances
- Build a faster desktop with RAID
- Building a Home File Server
- Building An Ubuntu MythTV Box
- Building More Relationships in Beagle
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- Cacti With Xampp On Ubuntu
- Calculate with Qalculate on Linux
- CD/DVD Burning
- Celebrity advice on keeping your Linux desktop secure
- Change Ctrl+Enter Behavior in Firefox
- Change Font Colour in Gnome Panels
- Change How Often Your System Checks for Updates
- Change the Default Editor From Nano on Ubuntu Linux
- Change the GRUB Menu Timeout on Ubuntu
- Change Ubuntu Desktop from DHCP to a Static IP Address
- Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address
- Change your Network Card MAC Address on Ubuntu
- Changing The /tmp Cleanup Frequency
- Changing the look of Wine
- Check your Disk Usage on Ubuntu from the command line
- Check your Disk Usage on Ubuntu with Disk Usage Analyzer
- Check your Laptop Battery status from the command line
- Cheesy Photo Booth-Like App for GNOME
- Civilization IV on Linux, Updated How-to
- Clean up Ubuntu GNU/Linux System
- Clean Up Ubuntu Grub Boot Menu After Upgrades
- Clean up your grub menu and the kernels you do not use
- Clean up your grub menu and the kernels you do not use
- Clean up your Ubuntu with deborphan
- Cleaning your OS in Kubuntu and GNOME
- Cleanup Beagle Search Cache after Removing Beagle
- Cleanup Beagle Search Cache after Removing Beagle
- Clear History from Totem Movie Player in Ubuntu
- Clear History from Totem Movie Player in Ubuntu
- Clear the command shell window in Ubuntu
- CLI Magic: Manage all your archives with atool
- CLI Magic: Video conversion with mencoder
- Colonizing a free new world with FreeCol
- Color those tabs!
- Commercial Applications
- Comparing and merging files with Meld
- Compiling Source From Trunk (Unstable)
- Comprehensive integrity verification with md5deep
- Configure How often Ubuntu checks for Automatic Updates
- Configure Wireless on the Command Line
- Configuring conditional window transparency in Compiz
- Configuring your webcam to work under Linux
- Connect automatically to shared folder in Ubuntu
- Connect to Internet useing mobile phone/GPRS/EDGE
- Connecting to Printers
- Control multimedia applications with ReMoot
- Control serveral ssh sessions via a single interface
- Control your Linux PC from your mobile phone with Amora
- Controlling disk space with symbolic links
- Controlling your Linux system processes
- Convert and Burn DIVX to DVD Easily with Wine & Ubuntu using ConvertXtoDVD
- Convert DVDs for Your iPod Touch/iPhone with HandbrakeGTK
- </span></span> Convert MythTV Shows to iPod Video and DVDs
- Convert/Import from PDF and Keep the Formatting
- Converting PDFs into Image Files (Citimortgage PDF Reprise)
- Converting text files into ODF with odtwriter
- CPU
- CPU Frequency Scaling In Ubuntu
- CPU Frequency Scaling in Ubuntu
- CPU Scaling, Ubuntu, battery life and you - how to scale your CPU
- Create a Custom Live Linux CD
- Create a Samba User on Ubuntu
- Create a Search Bar for Epiphany
- Create a TinyUrl the Easy Way in Firefox
- Create a Virtual Monitor Power Button
- Create an MP3 file server using Amarok and ObsidianMusic
- </span> Create and manage large documents in OpenOffice.org
- Create backup of all packages using APTonCD
- Create impressive charts with Open Flash Chart
- Create Video DVDs With ManDVD
- Creating a simple DVD using 'Q' DVD-Author
- Creating Custom Ubuntu Live-CD With Remastersys
- Creating hackergotchis using the GIMP
- Creating Launchers for Network Locations
- Creating ring tones with Linux
- Creating Shortcuts With User Aliases
- Creating Snapshot Backups Of Your Desktop With Timevault On Ubuntu 7.10
- Creating Your Own Custom Ubuntu 7.10 Or Linux Mint 4.0 Live-CD With Remastersys
- Cropping multiple images the same way
- Crypt Manager - An encrypted folder manager for Ubuntu Linux
- Customize Firefox blank page
- Customize the Update Manager in Ubuntu
- Customize your Gutsy
- Customize Your Places Directories
- Customizing the GDM/GNOME Login Screen.
- CyberNotes: Share a Firefox Profile Between Ubuntu and Windows
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- Dar and Kdar
- Database Server
- Debfoster: Remove a package and its dependencies
- deborphan: find packages you don’t want
- Decorate Your Mplayer with Mplayer Skins
- Delete Files Older Than x Days on Linux
- Delete Files Older Than x Days on Linux
- Deleting Unwanted Files
- Design better Web pages with Firefox extensions
- Desktop Drapes - A Crazy Wallpaper Randomizer
- Desktop tune-up. Four cool Linux tricks
- DHCP Server
- Dictionary on the desktop
- Digital security with GnuPG plugins
- Digitizing records and tapes with Audacity
- DirectX 9.0c on Linux with Wine
- Disable automatically playing CD's and DVD's and portable music players in Ubuntu
- Disable AutoPlay of Blank CD or DVD media
- Disable Bluetooth on Ubuntu 7.10
- Disable internet access for particular user in Ubuntu
- Disable preview sounds in Ubuntu
- Disable Single-Click Opening of Files in KDE
- Disable Synaptics Touchpad While Typing in Ubuntu
- Disable the Login Sound on Ubuntu
- Disable the System Beep on Ubuntu Edgy
- Disable the touchpad while typing
- Disabling the kinit warning on ubuntu 7.04 bootup
- Disk Encryption on Linux
- Display available memory on Linux / Ubuntu
- Display Flickr photos as your Ubuntu wallpaper
- Display Number of Processors on Linux
- Display Number of Processors on Linux
- Display the routing table in either Windows or Ubuntu
- Displaying System Details On Your Desktop With Conky System Monitor
- Displaying Weather And System Information On A GNOME Desktop With gDesklets
- Do not know which the right Linux command you need?
- Don’t Let GNOME’s Text Editor Leave Hidden Files
- Download 'em with FlashGot extension
- Download podcasts and sync music automatically with podget
- Download Youtube videos with wget
- Drastically Improve Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 Performance with the performance patchset by Con Kolivas
- Dual boot with two Linux, sharing the same home directory
- DVD Playback on Ubuntu Gutsy
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- Easily Convert .WMA to .MP3 in Linux
- Easily create CD case covers with Koverartist
- Easy blogging with Pivot
- Easy Video Right-Click Conversion for your Phone/iPod
- Easy Way to Install Ubuntu
- Editing HD Video in Linux
- Eliminate Slow Boots Because of Disk Checking
- Emulate Google’s Android Mobile Stack in Linux
- Enable Basic Keyboard Lighting On a MacBook
- Enable Copy and Paste from Ubuntu VMware Guest
- Enable Google Search From Shortcut Key in KDE on (k)Ubuntu
- Enable horizontal scrolling on synaptics touchpads in ubuntu linux
- Enable Moodbar in Amarok Music Player
- Enable Partial Match AutoComplete in the Firefox Address Bar
- Enable Remote Desktop (VNC) on Kubuntu
- Enable Smooth fonts on Ubuntu Linux
- Enable SSH Banner
- Enable vertical, horizontal and circular scrolling
- Enabling GNOME Desktop Icons in Ubuntu
- Enabling Hardware Temperature Sensors in Linux
- Enabling Suspend on the Macbook : Ubuntu 7.10
- Enabling the Cube In Compiz-Fusion on Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”
- Enabling the Motion Sensor on the Macbook for Physical Neverball!
- Enchanting Pictures with ImageMagick
- Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG
- Encrypt your private files with Encfs & Cryptkeeper Gnome applet
- Encrypted /home on Ubuntu Edgy
- Encrypted email (Thunderbird, Enigmail, GNUPG)
- Excellent Ubuntu Live CD Customization How-to
- Expand the Add Bookmark Dialog in Firefox by Default
- Expert tricks for Nautilus
- Export Writer documents into any wiki format
- Extending Nautilus context menus with Nautilus-actions
- Extending Nautilus: rotating JPG images
- Extending OpenOffice.org: Checking grammar with LanguageTool
- Extending OpenOffice.org: Creating self-running presentations with IndeView
- Extending OpenOffice.org: Creating template and AutoText extensions
- Extending OpenOffice.org: Must-have OpenOffice.org extensions
- Extending OpenOffice.org: Turning OpenOffice.org into a document conversion tool
- Extract audio from video or online stream
- Eye Candy
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- Fast User Switching Applet : Ubuntu 7.04
- Festival: Linux Text-To-Speech
- Files and Folders
- Find a Forgotten Password Saved in Firefox
- Find application alternatives
- Find files containing search terms on Ubuntu
- Find Path of Application Running on Solaris
- Find the items you want with GNOME Do
- Finding PNG Images Larger Than x Pixels Through the Linux Shell
- Fine-tune RSS feeds with ListGarden
- Firefox extensions for tab addicts
- Firefox tip - use a master password
- FireFTP: FTP client extension for Firefox
- Firewall
- Fix "Password required" Error When Using Unrar in Ubuntu
- Fix "Password required" Error When Using Unrar in Ubuntu
- Fix Amarok Error: "Fingerprinting of .mp3 files is not supported"
- Fix Dark Video Playback
- Fix for Master password expose for Pidgin
- Fix the SSH “Remote Host Identification Has Changed” Error
- Fix your desktop shortcuts
- Fix your frozen system
- Fixing Problems with Slow Katapult Searching
- Flipping the Linux switch: Misplace a file? Find it quick!
- Flock plugins on Ubuntu
- Foobar2000 under Wine in Ubuntu
- </a> test&p=1761</a> test Forgot your root password? No problem, just reset it.
- Four ways to hide information inside image and sound objects
- Free your mind with Freemind
- FTP Server
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- Gallery1
- Gallery2
- Galternatives - Graphical setup tool for Alternatives Configuration in Ubuntu
- Game Emulation In Linux
- Games
- gddrescue: a tool for recovering data from damaged media
- gEdit and smooth FTP saving!
- Generate Ubuntu apt-get Source.lst automatically
- Get a daily dose of comics
- Get a faster browsing experience - using a local caching DNS
- Get CPU / System Load Average on Ubuntu Linux
- Get even greater control of Firefox tabs
- Get free Ubuntu stickers
- Get Last Accessed File Time In Ubuntu Linux
- Get More Space Out of Your ext3 Partition
- Get rid of the annoying "please insert the disc" message in Ubuntu!
- Get the most out of your mouse with btnx
- Get the Top 10 Files or Directories on Ubuntu Linux
- Get USB devices mounted on your Virtualbox XP machine in Gutsy (Ubuntu 7.10)
- Get yahoo/hotmail emails using only Thunderbird
- Get your bearings with map extensions for Firefox
- Get your Wireless Connection up an runing
- Get Your Yahoo! Mail in Mozilla Thunderbird for Free
- Getting around the Gnome network manager
- Getting Details about Your Laptop Battery - and Taking Care of it
- Getting involved with Ubuntu
- Getting Started With Prism
- Getting Ubuntu "On Tap"
- Getting Up and Going with Wine on Ubuntu
- Getting your mail from KMail (Kontact) to Evolution
- GIMP Lomo Filter
- Gimp Tip.
- GIMP tricks: Teeth whitening
- Gimp Tutorial - Fast Flaming Text
- Give Wine apps the look and feel of GNOME or KDE
- glabels: Label, business card and media cover creation program
- Glipper: Clipboard Management for GNOME
- Gmail as Default Email Client in Ubuntu
- Gmail Manager extension lets you manage multiple accounts
- Gmail Notifier for your Ubuntu Desktop
- GNASH open source alternative
- Gnome preferred applications
- Gnome vim, our old and great text editor (vi) graphical
- gnome-nettool - Network tools for Gnome
- gnome-open - Linux command line, to open files with gnome
- gnome-schedule - graphical interface for at and crontab
- GnuCash financial-accounting software in Debian
- Google Docs Extension for OpenOffice
- Google Earth for Ubuntu: How to install Google Earth in Ubuntu and how to uninstall Google Earth in Ubuntu
- Got more than a gig of RAM and 32-bit Linux? Here's how to use it
- GPRS via Bluetooth enabled phone on Ubuntu Linux (and not only)
- GPW: generate pronounceable passwords
- Graphics Card
- Group Collaboration With Screen
- Group text editing with Gobby
- Groupware (Email/Calendaring)
- Grub
- Guide: Switching To Ubuntu - From Windows
- Gutsy Gibbon Tweak - Compiz Manager
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- Hack Your iPod Touch
- Hacking the Ubuntu Installation test
- Hacking Ubuntu to Improve Performance test
- Hard Drive
- Hardware
- Hate an application? Shoot it.
- Have you been Ubuntu Counted ?
- Help! My Linux won't start.
- Hidden Linux : Cures for KDE Boredom (Part 1)
- Hidden Linux : Cures for KDE Boredom (Part 2)
- Hidden Linux: Cures for KDE Boredom (Part 3)
- Hide Partition Icons From Your Ubuntu Desktop
- Hide Removable Drive Icons from Your Ubuntu Desktop
- Hide Removable Drive Icons from Your Ubuntu Desktop
- How do I backup Thunderbird mail and profile under Linux
- How do I fix black windows during video playback
- How to accept email on port 26, using Iptables port redirection
- How to access network folders without mounting
- How to Access your Box.Net Account from Ubuntu the Easy Way
- How to activate/deactivate network connections
- How to add a printer
- How to Add a Program to the Ubuntu Startup List (After Login)
- How to add a user to your Ubuntu system the GUI way
- How to add Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- How to add downmixing support for AAC/MPEG-4 audio
- How to add downmixing support for FLAC audio
- How to add extra repositories
- How to add keyboard layouts for other languages
- How to add keyboard layouts toggle for other languages (Xfce)
- How to add locales to Ubuntu the command line way
- How to add the Keyboard (Layout) Indicator applet
- How to add Windows entry into GRUB menu
- How to add/edit/delete network users
- How to add/edit/delete system groups
- How to add/edit/delete system users
- How to align monitors left-to-right
- How to allow more sudoers
- How to allow root user to login into GNOME
- How to apt-get the easy way (Synaptic)
- How to assign Hostname to local machine with dynamic IP using free DynDNS service
- How to associate Adobe Reader for .pdf files
- How to associate Adobe Reader with files in Nautilus
- How To Automatiaclly Mount Truecrypt Disks At Boot Time
- How to automatic login into GNOME (not secure)
- How to automatically scan files/folders for viruses
- How to automatically sign in to Ubuntu
- How to backup/restore Gallery1 data
- How to blank CD-RW/DVD-RW
- How to boot into Windows installed on a seperate SATA drive
- How to Boot Ubuntu from the Windows Bootloader
- How to browse files/folders as root user in Nautilus
- How to browse network computers
- How to Burn .img DVD Images
- How To Burn an .ISO image in 3-Clicks (CD or DVD)
- How to burn files/folders into CD/DVD
- How to burn Image (ISO) files into CD/DVD
- How to change backspace behavior in Mozilla Firefox to do page back instead of page up
- How to change boot order of Ubuntu and Windows
- How to change computer descriptions
- How to change computer Domain/Workgroup
- How to change computer name
- How to change default file type "Open with" program
- How to change default Operating System boot-up for GRUB menu
- How to change default soundcard
- How to change files/folders group ownership
- How to change files/folders ownership
- How to change files/folders permissions
- How to change GRUB menu password if forgotten
- How to change preferred email client to Mozilla Thunderbird
- How to change primary display from CRT to LCD
- How to change root user/main user password if forgotten
- How to Change the Color of your Tooltips
- How to change the default directory containing multimedia files for GNUMP3d
- How to change the default port number for Apache HTTP Server
- How to change the default port number for FTP Server
- How to change the default port number for GNUMP3d
- How to change the timeout seconds for GRUB menu on boot-up
- How to change the USplash Screen when you boot or shutdown the computer
- How to change your default mail client from Evolution to Thunderbird in Ubuntu
- How to check an Ubuntu .iso file
- How to check MD5 checksum of files
- How to clean /tmp/ folder contents on shutdown
- How to cleanup your GNOME registry?
- How to clone your bootable Ubuntu install to another drive
- How to clone your Ubuntu installation
- How to compile .deb files from source
- How to compile a kernel the Ubuntu Way
- How to Configure and start PPTP tunnels (VPN)
- How to configure Apple Mighty Mouse
- How to configure broadband connections
- How to configure dialup connections
- How to configure dual head on NVIDIA based cards
- How to configure FTP Server to allow anonymous FTP user to read only
- How to configure FTP Server to allow anonymous FTP user to read/write
- How to configure FTP user to be "jailed" (chrooted) into their home directory
- How to configure Gallery1 to be accessible via Internet (Hostname or fix IP) or LAN (fix IP)
- How to configure Gallery1 to be accessible via LAN (dynamic IP)
- How to configure Gallery2
- How to configure GLSlideshow
- How to configure Google Talk
- How to configure network connections
- How to configure PalmOS Devices
- How to configure PhpGedView with MySQL
- How To Configure PXE (Network) Booting on Ubuntu For Network Based Installations
- How to configure remote desktop (not secure)
- How to configure sound to work properly in GNOME
- How to configure your NAT/router/gateway/firewall for FTP server
- How to connect into remote Ubuntu desktop
- How to connect into remote Ubuntu desktop via OSX
- How to connect into remote Ubuntu desktop via Windows machine
- How to connect Motorola V3X to ubuntu 7.04 with USB port
- How to consume static (not dhcp) wireless LAN (WLAN) connection (KDE)
- How to control fan speed (lm-sensors)
- How to convert .rpm files to .deb files
- How to Convert a .nrg (Nero) file to a .iso file
- How to convert Wallpaper to Splash Image for GRUB menu
- How to copy files/folders from local machine into remote Ubuntu machine (rsync)
- How to copy files/folders from local machine into remote Ubuntu machine (scp)
- How to copy files/folders from remote Ubuntu machine into local machine (rsync)
- How to copy files/folders from remote Ubuntu machine into local machine (scp)
- How to copy files/folders from/into remote Ubuntu machine via Windows machine