The Five Best, New Things In Ubuntu Linux 9.04

I’ve been using Jaunty Jackalope–what a name!–for the last few weeks, and I upgraded to the release candidate last night the hard way, i.e. from the source code. I’m impressed. I think you will be too when you download it yourself. The ISO versions are scheduled to be available later today, April 16th, from the [...]

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Accelerator Guide: Disable Password Authentication for SSH Logins

This guide will explain the quick and easy procedure for disabling keyboard/password authentication for SSH  on your Accelerator. Some people prefer to use public key authentication instead of just a password, so it is harder to compromise your account. If you use a key pair that requires its own passphrase, your account will be protected [...]

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How to convert flv to dvd iso image

I install flv2dvd in my ubuntu desktop and converted all my flv files to a single DVD ISO Image .
How did I do ? It is very simple .
I install flv2dvd in my ubuntu desktop.
First I updated
verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Then installed
verman@verman-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install flv2dvd
[sudo] password for verman:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… [...]

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Crash Testing ext4 on Ubuntu

One of the more controversial aspects of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope release is the use of the ext4 filesystem.  Users have apparently lost important data already while testing Ubuntu on their desktop.  This article provides some basic information about ext4 and then provides some test results on a Ubuntu 9.04 server.
Ubuntu has backported [...]

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Replace Symantec Ghost Enterprise with Clonezilla

Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers [...]

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Backup your mobile using Wammu : Mobile Phone Manager

Wammu is mobile phone manager running on Linux, Windows and possibly other platforms, where Gammu and wxPython works. The communication is made by Gammu library.
Currently supported features:

complete support (can read/edit/delete/copy) for contacts, todo,
calendar
can read/create/save/send/backup smses
sending files to phone (OBEX and Sony Ericsson phones only)
sms composer for multi part smses (currently only text and predefined bitmap/sound [...]

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A Worthy Replacement For Dreamweaver : Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is a free, open source cross platform compatible IDE that supports a large variety of languages. The default Aptana Studio’s editor comeswith full support for HTML, CSS and Javascript. If you are a PHP or Ruby On Rails developer, you can also get it to support the the code you want by adding [...]

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How To Change Wallpaper Easily With Wallpapoz

Wallpapoz is an easy to use wallpaper changer application for GNOME. If you love to collect wallpapers, and like your desktop to change wallpaper at regular interval, then Wallpapoz is right for you.
GNOME desktop does not come with a wallpaper changer. While there has been lots of wallpaper changing script developed by enthusiasts, none of [...]

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Ubuntu 7.10 reaches end-of-life on April 18, 2009

Ubuntu announced the release of 7.10 almost 18 months ago, on October
18, 2007. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing
security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support
period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 7.10 will reach [...]

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