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How to use iPhone and iPod on Ubuntu 9 (Jaunty Jackalope and Karmic Koala)
Ubuntu 9, known as Jaunty Jackalope is a satisfying distro according to many Ubuntu users and beta testers. But how to use iPhone and / or iPod? Let me show you something to make your system definitel… more →
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How to use iPhone and iPod on Ubuntu 9 (Jaunty Jackalope and Karmic Koala)
Antonio Portuesi wrote 3 months ago: Ubuntu 9, known as Jaunty Jackalope is a satisfying distro according to many Ubuntu users and beta t … more →
Ho to reset Ubuntu password (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, gOS, Mint and other Ubuntu based OSs)
Antonio Portuesi wrote 4 months ago: What if you lost your account password? Before you destroy your linux installation check this out: s … more →
How to use Facebook chat in Ubuntu (Pidgin)
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Antonio Portuesi wrote 5 months ago: If you want to enable Facebook Chat for Pidgin in Ubuntu you need to install Facebook Chat for Pidgi … more →
How to find my pc IP address - aka - what is my IP?
Antonio Portuesi wrote 5 months ago: Your computer (PC, MAC, handeld and so on…equipped with Windows, Linux, MacOS, every distro/re … more →
How to manage Trash can or Recycle bin in Linux Desktop graphic environment
Antonio Portuesi wrote 6 months ago: In every modern linux distros (OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Mandriva, …) we use the graphic environment ( … more →
How to use a swap file to increase temporarily your swap memory
Antonio Portuesi wrote 6 months ago: Sometimes, it can be very useful to increase the available swap memory using a file, so we could hav … more →
How to boot from USB even if you don't have BIOS support
Antonio Portuesi wrote 7 months ago: If you like to try a new Linux distro (or any other OS with similar features) you can prepare a boot … more →
How to permanently fix skype audio problem in Ubuntu
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Antonio Portuesi wrote 7 months ago: I just downloaded and tried the last Ubuntu beta release (9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope) The first p … more →
How to change sudo to not ask for your personal password
Antonio Portuesi wrote 8 months ago: On any default Ubuntu box, any task which requires root (or Administrator) privileges runs a program … more →
How to add a user to the sudo list
Antonio Portuesi wrote 8 months ago: When you set up Ubuntu or Kubuntu or some other Ubuntu-like distro, during the installation process … more →
How to finding out which directory is the largest on your device
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Antonio Portuesi wrote 9 months ago: How many time did you try to know exactly which is the living-to-eat-some-space directory on your ha … more →
How to find out who has a file open in Linux
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Antonio Portuesi wrote 11 months ago: How often do mounts and umounts operations fail because you cannot determine who or what is using th … more →
How to open files with gedit using the right click menu in Ubuntu
Antonio Portuesi wrote 12 months ago: Many times it could be useful to open and edit a file in a straightforward way with a mouse click wi … more →
How to handle e2dk links with Firefox easily
Antonio Portuesi wrote 1 year ago: In most Linux systems, self-compiled aMule will install the ed2k utility in /usr/local/bin/ed2k, whi … more →
How to check if Linux kernel supports IPv6
Antonio Portuesi wrote 1 year ago: As we know, IPv6 addresses are classified into three types: Unicast addresses: A unicast address ide … more →
How to restore GRUB in your MBR if Windows changed it
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Antonio Portuesi wrote 1 year ago: Once upon a time it was a GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) menu showing up itself after a normal Bios … more →
How to create a separate home partition in Linux (Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Mandriva, Gentoo, Fedora and so on)
Antonio Portuesi wrote 1 year ago: This simple guide is just another way to make a separate /home partition if you already installed Li … more →
