In Firefox, when you press 'Backspace' the default action performed is 'Page up'.
You can change this to 'Previous page', just follow this for that:
Howto: do 'page back' instead of 'page up' when backspace is pressed in Mozilla Firefox
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Batch Watermark Images in Linux
The composite command from ImageMagick provides an easy way to watermark images. Without too much work you can write a script to do batch processing of your images. This way you can watermark a whole directory of images at once.
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DVD to CDs: Split ISO image into multiple archives that can later be extracted to the full ISO
Just use the default GNU tools tar, split and cat. There is absolutely no need for any fancy gui tools or software that you have to run in Wine!
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10 Page Vector Linux Course
This course is designed to take you step-by-step through the installation, setup and customization of the Vector Linux distribution. Vector 6.0 Standard is the edition used in this course with much emphasis on basic tasks. Topics reviewed include customization, resolution, network connection, slapt-get, Gslapt, Vector Linux default applications and more.
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Karmic: Proposed Look & Feel for boot and GDM theme
As they announced the revamp of boot and login experiences in Ubuntu and received a great response from the Artwork Team, with many interesting concepts being submitted..
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Bash Shell Course: Text Editors
The focus of this 10 page mini-course is to provide a foundation for using basic text editors. At some time everyone who uses Linux will need a text editor. One of the most important reasons for learning vi is that it is loaded on every Linux distro by default whereas others like nano or emacs are not. So whatever text editor you choose be sure you load it and use it before you need it.
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Karmic’s New Boot & Login Screen
he Ubuntu design team have published mock-ups of the proposed Ubuntu 9.10 Boot and GDM screens.
In a post on the Ubuntu-art mailing list, Mat Tomaszewski revealed the proposed designs, and confirmed the plan for Ubuntu to use a new boot-screen manager, replacing Usplash with Xsplash.
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10 Basic Linux Questions, Answered - The Easy Way
Almost all my friends use Windows or Mac. (not many of them are geek like me.) And when I talk to them about Ubuntu (sometimes) they ask various questions.
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Origin of Famous Linux Distibutions
Here I am trying to collect the Origin of famous Linux Distributions.
Linux is Now World Wide, Most of the Countries are Trying to make their Own Distribution. In India BOSS Linux is trying to attach 18 regional language support.
Debian --> World(No official Owner)
Ubuntu --> Isle of Man( UK) (Canonical ltd.)
Mandriva --> France (Mandrake Soft.) + Brazil(Conectiva Linux)
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Howto setup Virtual IP address (more than one IP) to your Networkcard in ubuntu
If you are a Network Administrator some time you need to assign more than ONE ip address (second ipaddress) to your network card of Ubuntu machine. For this you need to edit the /etc/network/interfaces file by adding the following lines . See the example below and make change according to your ip address settings
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APTonCD : Get APT anywhere, Create local removable repository of downloaded packages
Get APT anywhere: Have you ever felt that there is no life without APT? Well, if you'd suddenly lost conection to the internet, how would you install new packages? What about dependencies? You've just finished installing Ubuntu and configured it to a rad look, with all your favorite applications? For some reason you now have to re-install it?
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Quran Study Tool for Ubuntu / Debian Linux : Zekr
Quran Study Now Available in Linux, Arabic Quotes and English Translation. It is fully featured with advanced searching, navigation, recitation, and commentary. Principle of the Zekr project Never Profit Off The Prophet. All programs are and will always be Free and Open Source. That means that anyone can see and contribute to developing Zekr.
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Mind Mapping With XMind on Ubuntu
The Mind Mapping In Linux course has been designed to be a basic overview of Xmind and how to use it in different scenarios to increase productivity in your projects planning process. Xmind is a free, open source, applications available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms.
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KDE 4.3.0 (Caizen) Released: Stable, Fast, but Still Not Perfect
First of all, let’s talk about the good things. KDE 4.3 is stable. Very stable. It seemed apparent from the start that the KDE developers were taking no prisoners with the stability of this release.
The Bad
* Desktop effects are more of a curse than a blessing
* Items on the taskbar rearrange themselves
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