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 [...]

Hiding users in Windows Vista & XP

Windows XP and Vista will automatically show all user accounts on the welcome screen with no easy option to disable this. You may want to have a hidden one that no one knows about, and using this tutorial, you will learn how to hide a user account from the welcome screen.
How to hide users [...]

Windows XP apps on your Ubuntu desktop - now with Coherence !

Run Windows XP apps on Ubuntu without having and have them appear on your normal Gnome or KDE desktop. The tutorial starts with uses KQemu (now Open Source as of today) but the latter section on coherence can easily be adapted to VMWare Player or Xen.
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Windows XP apps on your Ubuntu desktop - [...]

Understanding UNIX process creation

With this tutorial you can explore the life cycle of a process running under the UNIX operating system.
Delve into UNIX process creation

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Understanding UNIX process creation
Originally from nixCraft by nixcraft

ShowMeDo Free Video Tutorial Website

ShowMeDo is a relatively new website that is about videos by the people, for the people as they put it. Not the normal type of videos that you find on sites like youtube but videos that teach the viewer. The site currently has seven categories where movies are located, those are Python, Java, Ruby, Linux, [...]

How to bridge networks with OpenVPN

OpenVPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN software based on SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) that offers cross-platform interoperability. The majority of OpenVPN tutorials I’ve found describe how users can connect to a corporate network from their laptops over insecure networks, such as the wireless network in a hotel. By contrast, the setup I’m about to [...]

Introducing Linux Custom Search Engine using Google

Google has launched a Custom Search Engine. This allows users to create their own specialized Google Search Indexes made up of specific sites. I have added total 21 sites which I believe provides good Linux and open source tutorials and articles.
From google FT article:
Users of Google Custom Search Engine will be able to select the [...]

UNIX File maintenance tools, tips and how tos collection

IBM developerworks has published excellent set of tips and howtos.
From the article:
Systems administrators can use a number of programs to maintain files in a UNIX system from the command line. In this tutorial, you’ll experiment with commands, such as cd, cp, and tar, to navigate a UNIX file system from the command line and [...]

Convert WAV and MP3 files to AMR in Linux, using Gstreamer

Fantastic! As long as you have a WAV or MP3 file, the SoX package, and the Gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-ugly package installed, you can use these scripts to convert from MP3 or WAV to AMR, and back from AMR to WAV. Perfect for creating ringtones out of sound clips or favorite songs!
Tutorial
Convert WAV and MP3 files to [...]

Ubuntu Tricks - how to generate a list of installed packages and use it to reinstall packages

This tutorial will work for any Debian based system, but is written specifically for Ubuntu.
I’ve recently had the occasion to make a complete list of software installed on one of my Ubuntu boxes, and then reinstall it from scratch. Here’s a quick and easy way to generate a list of installed .deb packages, and [...]

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