How to Fix Handbrake Unable to Rip DVD After Installation in Ubuntu
I use handbrake to backup my old movies and store them on my Home Media Server. As it is easier to play them from my TV set. I won’t go… Read more »
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Restarting Unity Desktop Session in Ubuntu 15.10
Since Ubuntu 15. one of the changes Ubuntu made is the switch from “upstart” to “systemctl” in order to start/restart/stop services. So in order to restart your Unity Desktop session,… Read more »
How to Mount an NTFS Partition in Linux During Boot
If you have a separate partition in your Linux installation where you keep your data, you may want to mount that partition automatically. Instead of mounting it manually by clicking… Read more »
Configuring Lightning in Thunderbird With Google Calendar
In this post I will describe how to configure Thunderbird Lightning addon to synchronize with your google calendar. This post will be more for a bidirectional configuration, in which you… Read more »
How to Close Frozen Applications in Ubuntu
Here are a couple of simple ways you can use to close frozen applications in Ubuntu or any Linux distro. When a given applications does not respond, open a terminal… Read more »
Ten Useful Tcpdump Commands
Understand tcp/ip stack is essencial for analysing network traffic, and troubleshoot connection problems. Also, looking at network traffic is important when understanding how a particular network application is behaving behind… Read more »
Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts: When Connecting to SSH Server
After reinstalling my server Linux, I was no longer able to add the ssh key to the list of known_host files. And the reason behind it, was that I had… Read more »
10 Useful Find Command for Linux Users
Computers are about storing and retrieving information, and how fast you can find and process that information makes all the difference in the world, not to mention that makes your… Read more »
How to Configure Vim for Python Programming
After trying several editor, and IDEs, I settled for Vim, or GVim, which is the graphical version of Vim/Vi. And the reason being that it allows me to code and… Read more »
How to Restore a Previous Firefox Sessions.
If you are one of those who has several tabs open at the same time in Firefox while reading different pages, then when you’re done reading, you closed the browser… Read more »