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Prevent Accidental Shutdown/Reboot in Ubuntu
Jan 15th
If you are a command line geek then you would have often entered the wrong commands many times, some of which could lead to accidental shutdown/restart. Molly-Guard is a command line script which prevents you from accidentally shutting down or rebooting your Ubuntu system.
It basically overrides the default system binaries of the shutdown, reboot, or halt processes. So once you try to reboot or shutdown your system form the command line it will prompt you to enter the hostname of your computer. Thus in this way you are prevented from accidental shutdown or reboot.
Installing this script is a piece of cake, More >
How to retain changes in Backtrack 4 installed on USB
Sep 19th
In this article we will describe how we can create a bootable Backtrack 4 USB Drive that will save all the changes we make on the USB itself. In this scenario we will use 2 USB Drives. One USB drive of 1GB and the 2GB USB drive which will hold our changes.
Firstly we need to create a bootable USB Drive on the 1GB USB Drive and boot our machine (A DVD Drive can be used also)
Instructions on how to do this can be found on the following link: http://www.itsolutionskb.com/2009/04/how-to-make-backtrack-4-boot-from-usb/
Secondly we will need to to prepare our 2GB USB Drive with More >
Google Chromium Alpha Finally Released for Linux Users
May 30th
The team that is developing the Open Source version of the Google browser for Linux has finally released the alpha version of the Internet browser. The Chromium for Linux version was in pre-alpha stage for quite some time. Even the pre-alpha versions of the Chromium web browser were fairly stable but the alpha release marks a new milestone in the development.
The new version of the Google browser is still lacking several features of the Windows counterpart. Some of the most important features that are still missing are plugin support, printing, complex tab dragging, complex text and Google Gears support. The More >
Things to know before Replacing Windows by Linux
May 20th
All those who have been using Windows since Long and want to try linux then you should prepare yourself before facing Linux. Here I have tried to list out some similaritites as well Differences among the two operating systems which will be helpful to when you start with Linux. Here my aim was not to determine which OS is better but to make you aware about the new things which you might not be aware of Linux and might be confusing for you at first but as the time will pass all the things will be clear and you will More >
4 Tools to play Windows Games on Linux
Apr 14th
Playing Windows games on Linux is not really a difficult task. Most gamers are reluctant to migrate to Linux because they have this misconception that Windows games cannot be played on Linux. How wrong they are. If you are one of those avid gamers that I mentioned above, here are 4 ways that you can play Windows games on Linux.
1) Wine
The name “WINE” derives from the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an Emulator.. The obvious way to install any Windows applications on Linux is via Wine. At the time when WineHQ released the stable 1.0 version, it has already supported More >
