How to manage your machine’s background processes
How to manage your machine’s background processes
Like with any operating system today, there are always going to be potential targets for exploit. Buffer overflows, stack overflows, sloppy code, user errors — the list just keeps going. To counter this, I’m going to show you how to take simple steps to ensure that you are utilizing commonsense safety strategies for safer Ubuntu computing.
If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the following steps
This post summarizes steps I’ve done to setup a NFS share on Ubuntu 8.10 VM host and mount it on an another Linux machine.
How to install lm-sensors? This tools can detect your hardware parameters, such as temperatures, fan speed, and voltages.
Mobile telecoms companies are now pushing “mobile broadband” in the form of a connection that uses the 3G mobile phone networks. While the bandwidth available can be variable, you don’t need massive bandwidth for most tasks, as long as it has sufficient throughput for the main business tasks: email, Facebook and YouTube.
That leaves us a few questions. Has mobile productivity come of age? How do these systems work? What sort of coverage and speeds do they provide? Most importantly, do they work with Linux?
This article will help you avoid those mistakes by laying out the most typical Linux missteps.
Using the LiveCD of any distribution with one, such as: Knoppix, Ubuntu or GParted LiveCD, boot into the live session.
Look in /media for your drives. Single click each drive you see. Once the icon is highlighted, right click and see if the drive is mounted.
