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The Ubuntu file browser does not show hidden files or folders by default, only the files that your user has access to.Here is the small tip how to view Hidden Files and Folders in Ubuntu File Browser.
Here’s what file browser looks like when browsing the root file system normally
As you can see, all of the hidden/system folders are not shown. If you hit Ctrl+H at this screen, you will immediately see all the hidden files.
If you would just prefer to make this be the default setting...
How to View Hidden Files and Folders in Ubuntu File Browser
When your Ubuntu system boots, you will see the GRUB menu if you hit the Esc key, or if you’ve enabled the menu to show by default. The only issue with this is that the default timeout is only 3 seconds. You may want to increase this amount… or you may even want to decrease it. Either one is simple.
Change the GRUB Menu Timeout on Ubuntu
When Ubuntu boots, you normally briefly see a screen that says “GRUB loading. please wait… Press Esc to enter the menu…”
If you are hacking around your system and would prefer to always see the GRUB menu (to enter command-line options, for instance), there’s an easy fix.
Show the GRUB Menu by Default on Ubuntu
Despite the very low number of viruses existing for Linux there are still antivirus solutions for Linux. One of them (which just happened to be my favorite Windows client) is Avast! Now, why would I bother installing antivirus on my Linux machine if viruses are a non-threat? Well, do you ever communicate with Windows based machines.
So, in an attempt to keep the network clean and make sure we’re not passing on infection it wouldn’t hurt to occasionally scan our machines. This would go double for any Linux machine that acts as a server (email or IM especially!)
To install Avast! for Linux...
Antivirus on Ubuntu with Avast! : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10)
ou might have wondered how comes that your mp3 player is automatically mounted under a nice name like JUKEBOX for instance, while you usb stick simply get a name like USB_BAR and USB_BAR-1... for its partitions.
This is actually due to hal automatically mounting the device.
This tutorial will show you how to give a label to your partitions in order to have your removable devices mounted under an explicit location such as: /media/red-usb-disk or /media/my-big-fat-partition.
How-to get your removable device mounted under an explicit and persistent name
There is one user account on your Debian system that has the power to change anything: the root account. By power, I mean absolute power. The root user account can read, replace, or remove any file. It can read or write to any attached device. It can read or write to any part of the computer's memory. If there's even a mere suspicion that a piece of software is buggy or poses a security risk, there's no way you should run it as root.
This article introduces using sudo to restrict superuser privileges.
Using the Root Account on Debian
Filesystems provide a base for your files to be stored on the physical disk. A good analogy is that a disk is like the building that houses your local library, while the filesystem is its infrastructure—the shelves that hold the books and the card catalog that enable you to find a particular title.
Linux supports many different types of filesystems, each of which has its own internal structure and access methods. To access a specific type of filesystem, Linux uses kernel software known as a driver that understands the internal structure of a specific filesystem.
Man, I don't know how common this problem is, but I just noticed today that my new Slackware 11.0 appeared to be missing the entire info system. I searched around and there were all the files all right (in /usr/info!) but not showing up in the directory.
So, for those wondering why info is missing all the files, or how to update texinfo for newly added info files (you'll recognize them by their extension of 'info.gz'): ...
and the magic spell (get ready, it's a jawbreaker): ...
Rebuilding the Directory for TexInfo
Friends, a while back I posted a short tutorial to get you lovely people up and running using GStreamer and Python. I wrote the tutorial, partially so we get more people using GStreamer, and partially to encourage more people to hack on the awesome Jokosher project. Right now I am sat on a plane bored out of my tiny little mind on the way to Florida for my hols, so I figured I would now write a tutorial about how to use GStreamer and Edward Hervey’s fantastic Gnonlin set of elements.
As ever, feel free to use the comments on this blog entry to ask and answer questions. The last tutorial seemed to encourage some discussion, and I would love this one to do so too. So, lets crack on.
What is Gnonlin exactly?
Using Gnonlin with GStreamer and Python
Although Ubuntu and other distributions give us easy to use graphical user interfaces for configuring almost everything, it's nice to know how to get things working without them. Here we'll show how to connect to a wireless access point and get on the internet from the command line.
First things first, you have to know what the device name of your wireless interface is. Typically this is wlan0, but in my case, it's ath0. Be sure the interface is turned on.
Configure Wireless From The Command Line
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