This could be very useful to you if you’re working in the terminal and need to step away for a moment. You can achieve a locked screen, just like when you do it the graphical way, with this command entered at the command line, or cli…
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In Ubuntu you can have the appointments in your calender appear in your desktop calender/clock. If you’ve just come over from years of Microsoft Windows use, Evolution is the linux equivalent of Outlook. Ubuntu works with the Evolution mail client to give you quick access to your appointments and tasks right on the desktop, [...] Some HP printers can use one of the drivers already installed by default in Ubuntu. In those cases, all you usually need to do is plug your printer into your computer, and Ubuntu will recognize it and prompt you to set it up. It’s super quick & easy. The HP Laserjet P1005 that I purchased [...] APTonCD is a very cool application that will backup the packages (software) on your system to a CD or DVD. This will not backup any personal, user created files. This is very handy for example, if you’re re-installing Ubuntu for whatever reason, but you don’t want to have to re-install every single peice of software [...] Let’s say you want to block certain websites. Maybe to keep your kids off of myspace, for security reasons, or to block advertising from being loaded. You can do this by means of your hosts file. By modifying that little file, you can keep certain websites from being accessed from your computer. Here’s how to [...] Locking your screen when you’re away from your computer is very important when there are other people around. You don’t want anyone messing around on your computer. In Ubuntu you can lock your screen very easily. Once your screen is locked, it will immediately start the screensaver. When someone tries to use the mouse or [...] Problem is that you get to a website, or a page of a site and you’re told that you need to be using Internet Explorer to view this page. Great, now what do you do? Try the User Agent Switcher, a Firefox add-on. Here’s how to do it… There are 2 ways of doing this. One uses the already installed gnome-screensaver, and the other uses xscreensaver, which you’ll have to install. First option — gnome-screensaver Go to Applications > Settings > Settings Manager > Autostarted apps Click on Add, and enter whatever name & description you like, but enter gnome-screensaver in the [...] A rootkit is a program (or combination of several programs) designed to take control of a computer system, without authorization. It assumes administrative, or root level control of the system. This control isn’t taken for your benefit, it’s malicious. Antivurs software might not get these little buggers, so root kit detection software comes in. [...] This stumped me for a LONG time. I had Ubuntu for a month or so before I got DSL service. I was too much of a noob to compile a driver for my old internal dial up modem. Here’s how I finally made dial up work. |
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