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Check bad sectors on Linux

This is one of the many reason I love Linux. My desktop was acting up since a couple of days. I finally found I was having bad sec...

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Turn off the mouse

If you use Linux, with wireless mouse which has a on/off switch, which you forget to switch off while going home,this is what you ...

Ubuntu ShortCut keys

General keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + A = Select all Ctrl + C = Copy the highlighted content to clipboard Ctrl + V = Paste the clipboa...

List all installed Packages

I found out how to do this recently and thought it might be helpful to some people. To output this information to a file in your h...

Lazy Load

One way would be to create a small bash script that will kick off those programs, then create a startup script that calls it via a...

Terminal Commands

LYX: sudo apt-get install texlive-publishers sudo apt-get install texlive-science Miscellaneous chown chmod chgrp lsmod lsmod lspc...

Ubuntu Maintenance

Remove partial packages, unused dependences, orphaned packages You have installed a lot of applications, uninstalled them. A lot o...

Install Fonts in ubuntu

Manually There are various locations in GNU/Linux in which fonts can be kept. These locations are defined in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf...

[SOLVED]Ubuntu One Issue on Windows

Email to Ubuntu One Support: “I cannot sign in using existing account,when I enter sign in details, it shows authentication ...