The Linux utility psacct is an excellent tool for monitoring your user activity and the resources used by processes and applications.
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Usage Based Billing is a joke and a major scam.
Large Internet Service Providers are trying to force us into Usage Based Billing. This serious issue concerns everyone who uses the Internet.
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Installing the Theme Selector Gnome Shell Extension
Gnome 3 includes support for themes, but does not include a convenient way to select them. The Gnome Shell Theme Selector Extension by Finnbarr P. Murphy provides a simple way to change themes from the Activities screen.
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Linux Mint 11 review
Linux Mint 11 is the latest release of Linux Mint, a desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop. This is different from Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), a version of Linux Mint based on Debian.
Read more »Dual-boot Linux Mint 11 and Windows 7
Dual-booting between a GNU/Linux distribution and Windows on a computer with one or more hard disks is a common practice for those who use both operating systems. It is a somewhat hassle-free approach to keeping a foot in both OS worlds.
Read more »Complete Step by Step Guide to Make ISO Images in Ubuntu
In this tutorial I will show you several simple ways of creating ISO images with Ubuntu, from doing it with graphical applications included in the repositories or by using just the command-line. Each method below will get the work done, and you can start burning your images to a CD or DVD in no time.
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Using and Understanding IPv6 on openSUSE 11
So IPv6 has been around a while now but do we know any benefits? We may know that it is 128bits long and too difficult to type but if that is all then we do ourselves a little injustice in not knowing how easy IPv6 can make our lives. So let us take a look at some of the automation features of IPv6 including auto-address assignment, router discovery and why we do not need a broadcast address.
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How to replace GRUB with BURG on Linux Mint 11
GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, has been the default boot loader on virtually all Linux distributions since LILO (LInux LOader) lost its shine. LILO is still an option in only a handful of distributions (Mandriva is one), but on most, GRUB is the sole boot loader. GRUB’s menu has a very bland interface, and BURG is an attempt to prettify it, spice it up a bit.
Read more »Manual disk partitioning guide for Linux Mint 11
This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to create partitions on Linux Mint 11, the latest stable release of Linux Mint. And because it encompasses most of the steps involved in the installation process, it can be considered a Linux Mint 11 installation guide.
Read more »Fedora 15 LXDE review
Fedora 15 LXDE is a Fedora 15 Spin, an alternate edition of Fedora, “tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application sets and other customizations.” Presently, seven Spins have been released. These are, in order of popularity about the time I hit the Publish button, the KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Security, Games, Electronic-Lab, and Design-Suite Spins.
Read more »Install Linux Mint 11 on an 8 GB SDHC card
SDHC cards, very small storage cards designed for use in mobile devices, can be used to install your favorite Linux distribution. You can install any distribution on one of these cards in much the same manner that you would to a regular hard disk drive.
Read more »How To Configure Blog RSS Feed In FeedBurner
Feedburner is often a service that can change your blog feed in to content for easier to be read or distributed directly into various feed services. Many advantages in using Feedburner, several of which are feedburner can certainly send the feed contents automatically on the subscribers through email, knowing the quantity of subscribers, compatible with many feed reader services and more.
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Unity interface makes Ubuntu worse.
I downloaded the latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal edition. The latest Ubuntu comes by default with the Unity interface. Previously, I already got to play with the unity interface on the netbook edition but was not impressed at all.
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How to install Linux Mint 11 on a btrfs file system
Btrfs, the B-tree File System, is almost at the stage when it will become the default file system on the major Linux distributions. It is already the default on MeeGo, and will, by the next two releases or so, be the default on Fedora.
Read more »How to triple-boot Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7
Tired of dual-booting between Windows and your most favorite Linux distribution? How about triple-booting between Windows and your two most favorite Linux distributions? If you are up to the task, this article presents a very detailed guide on how to get it done.
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