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Full Story »Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 – using shell
If you are already using Ubuntu 8.04 and wish to upgrade to latest LTS. Use following command. sudo do-release-upgrade -d
Full Story »Upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 – using shell
This is same procedure as mentioned in previous version upgrade. All you need to do is to run following command to upgrade your existing ubuntu 9.10 installation to 10.04 sudo do-release-upgrade
Full Story »Save Power using Wake On Lan
Apart from Virtulization we can shut servers whenever it is not being used to save power. At my office, we used to keep Antivirus server running 24×7, to get latest definition updates & to let users fetch. This was not necessary to keep server ON whole night as there was no user. Also we had [...]
Full Story »Create Linux / Windows 7 Bootable USB -Ultraiso
In Previous posts we have covered creating usb boot for fedora & ubuntu. Apart from unetbootin, you can use UltraISO to create usb boot. Following is the easy procedure to create bootable usb. 1) Connect USB device & select it int UltraISO. 2) Select Live CD iso image. 3) Click on Bootable from menu, choose [...]
Full Story »Recover Ubuntu & Win7 – after upgrading from XP
If you are using Ubuntu & XP dual boot, & if at all you are planing to upgrade / have upgraded to Win7, this post may be helpful for you. When you upgrade to Win7, due to Win’s unsocial behaviour to coexists with other OS, grub boot loader is lost. Here we assume, when you [...]
Full Story »Installing OpenOffice-3.2 on Ubuntu
Download torrent Make sure you select with bundled jre package (ensure you selected version 3.2, till now there is no version 3.2 mentioned for Linux (x86) (with bundled JRE) (.deb based)), this may be rectified soon. Otherwise use following link to download from Web. Download The reason I recommend to download using Torrent is to [...]
Full Story »Tata / Reliance Mobile broadband on Ubuntu
Few days back I had configured Tata plug2surf on Ubuntu 9.10, it was easy. During procedure I discovered Reliance netconnect & tata photon can be configured with same ease. Here I am sharing steps I used to configure tata plug2surf on Ubuntu 9.10 Edit your network settings select mobile broadband click on add modem is [...]
Full Story »Change Ubuntu 9.10 Resolution
By default Ubuntu 9.10 supports 1024×768 resolution, which is not enough for me. I needed to increase it to 1240×1024. To achive my desired resolution I run through few commands. Its easy, take a look. Here I am trying to get 1240×1024 resolution, if you are trying to achive any other change it with 1240×1024 [...]
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