Ubuntu has a built in application, Gnome System Monitor, to help you keep tabs on what’s going on with your machine. You can find it in System > Administration > System Monitor. Once you have it open it has a few tabs, displaying various system information. The Resources tab will show you the cpu usage [...]
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I go through a lot of CDs & DVDs, and constantly reaching over to push that little button on the front of the CD/DVD drive is rather annoying. I do not have one of those nifty keyboards that has those media buttons. So, I looked for a way to open and close my drawer from [...] So, do you have a lot of comic books that you want to keep track of? GNOME Comics Organizer can help. This is a little application designed for the purpose of cataloging your comic books. To get it you must first enable the Universe repositories. Here’s how you can do that. Now that that’s done, you [...] Here’s how to add the universe and multiverse repositories. Open Software Sources. System > Administration > Software Sources Enabling the Universe & Multiverse repositories will give you access to tons of software that your Ubuntu system doesn’t give you access to by default. Here is how to enable them. Open a Terminal. Applications > Accessories > Terminal sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak This makes a copy of the file we’re going to modify, in case [...] When I first installed Google’s Chrome browser, I noticed something odd the first time I ran the application. It’s window had no title bar. I thought that was strange, but I didn’t really mind its absence too much, so I used it like it was. If however, you do miss that title bar at the [...] Google Chrome Beta is now available for linux. You can go here and download the .deb file for 32 or 64 bit systems. Select the version you’d like to download, and then you can simply click on Open from the box that comes up to download and install the package. It can then be found [...] The linux kernel is, among other things, something that gets updated periodically when you update your system. When this happens, the kernel that’s being replaced is not deleted, it’s left on your system, but just not used anymore. For example, as I write this, I’m using the 2.6.24-24 kernel. My system may still contain older [...] Let’s say you’re logged into your Ubuntu machine as an unprivileged user, meaning that you don’t have permission to use the sudo command on the command line. As such, you cannot update the system, install a program, or perform other tasks in the terminal that require the sudo command without logging out and then back [...] Have you ever asked yourself, “How do I find out exactly which version, or release, of Ubunut I have?” There are a few ways of doing this. The easiest, and most basic, is to open the System Monitor.You do this by going to System > Administration > System Monitor. You then click on the System tab. [...] |
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