View Comic Books with CDisplay

Have you ever come across files with the extension cbr or cbz? These are the standard file formats for digital comic books. Whether you have a subscription to a comic book archive or had the files given to you by a friend, the bottom line is what are you supposed to do with them.
If youâ??re [...]

Quick Google Calendar Tip: Setting Default Notifications

Google Calendar notifications rock! Not only do I get alerts by email and browser popups, I also get event alerts on my mobile phone via SMS. Now for most appointments or meetings I need to be reminded of I set the SMS notification at least an hour before, to be sure I donâ??t forget, and [...]

Extend the Windows Clipboard

The Windows clipboard can store a single text phrase in its memory, once a new phrase is copied to the clipboard the old one is lost. If you want to copy two different text phrases for instance you need to copy the first, paste it somewhere, copy the second and paste it as well. A [...]

Tweaking Hidden Ubuntu Settings With Ubuntu Tweak

Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network
icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security
settings, etc. Currently Ubuntu Tweak is available only for the Ubuntu
GNOME desktop, i.e., it will not work on Kubuntu or [...]

How To Setup Disk Quotas For MySQL Database

MySQL server has no support for preventing disk from getting filled up. You need to depend upon external configurations. Let us see how to use standard Linux disk quota to limit user database size.
Suppose you have a user foo on the system as well as on MySQL. Now how do you limit space for [...]

Flickr Mass Downloader

Downloading pictures from Flickr can be a time consuming task, especially if you find a collection that contains dozens or even more pictures that you like and would like to download. A mass downloader for Flickr would aid and help you a lot and reduce the time needed to download all the pictures that you [...]

Get Information About Your BIOS / Server Hardware From a Shell Without Opening Chassis ( BIOS Decoder )

biosdecode is a command line utility to parses the BIOS memory and prints information about all structures (or entry points) it knows of. You can find out more information about your hardware.
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Get Information About Your BIOS / Server Hardware From a Shell Without Opening Chassis ( BIOS Decoder [...]

Three Ways To Access Linux Partitions from Windows

If you have a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, you probably know this
problem: you can access files from your Windows installation while you
are in Linux, but not the other way round. This tutorial shows three
ways how you can access your Linux partitions (with ext2 or ext3
filesystem) from within Windows: Explore2fs, DiskInternals Linux Reader, and the Ext2 Installable [...]

Recovering Ubuntu after a Windows installation

What follows is a small step-by-step guide on how to recover the ability to boot your Ubuntu partition after a new Windows installation
problem: Windows overwrites the Master Boot Record (MBR), effectively destroying any LILO or GRUB setup you might have had; contrary to what several websites claim: just setting the proper partition active will NOT [...]

Install GFX Grub In Ubuntu

GNU Graphics Grub is the new Grub boot screen which adds to Visual appeal of Boot Screen .. Unlike older grub GFX Grub has now much better themes and customization options.. This article takes a quick look at How To Install GFX GrubBoot Menu..
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Install GFX Grub In Ubuntu

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