To add a user account, use the following syntax, and follow the prompts to give the account a password and identifiable characteristics such as a full name, phone number, etc. sudo adduser username To delete a user account and its primary group, use the following syntax: sudo deluser username Deleting an account does not remove […]
Go to /var/logs directory or whichever on you want to look tail and try these commands: tail -f /var/log/messages less /var/log/messages more -f /var/log/messages vi /var/log/messages
We all random sounds or random music from time to time. If you properly query google, you can find open indexes of music files easily. Here are some hints to get you started. Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3 Using this string we are using the “index of” and the inurl commands to […]
This post is for if you are using XFCE4 (xubuntu-desktop) and you’re having issues with auto completion. This is also taking under consideration that auto completion is working in SSH. If it’s not working for either try sudo apt-get remove autocompletion && sudo apt-get install autocompletion I the problem still persists then, try using […]
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After upgrading to 11.10 recently, I occasionally noticed fuser firing up and using between 70% and astoundingly 9999% CPU. Googling the issue led me to this post with the solution. As user grazer explains: We have the same problem. This is the content of /etc/cron.d/php5 on 11.10: 09,39 * * * * root [ […]
Installing Apache Getting apache onto your Ubuntu machine is easy. Using either the Synaptic Package Manager, Ubuntu Software Center, search and install the “apache2” module. Alternatively, you can open a terminal and type the following command: sudo apt-get install apache2 Once the installation finished, open a browser and go to the URL “http://localhost“. If you […]
Installation Install Festival by typing the following command in a Terminal: [cc lang=”php” tab_size=”2″ lines=”40″] sudo apt-get install festival [/cc] Note: Additional voices are available in the Ubuntu repositories. Type “festvox” in Synaptic Package Manager for a list of language packages. Testing Test your setup by typing in a Terminal [cc lang=”php” tab_size=”2″ lines=”40″] festival [/cc] You will […]
provides a useful database and API for server side IP Geolocation. It is useful when you don’t want your server to hang on external services each time fetching a location from an IP address is needed. This posts goes through the installation process of the database with a PHP extension on an Ubuntu platform. I’m […]
We have already told you about Pithos – one of the best Desktop clients on Linux for Pandora.com. Pithos is meant to run on GNOME but runs equally well on KDE and other desktop environments. It has good features like support for the media keys, Last.fm scrobbling and making your own stations. In this article we […]