Overheating in laptops is not a new issue. Specially after Ubuntu 11 series, the number of complaints against overheating and battery drainage has increased exponentially.
One superb and simple way to deal this issue is to use Jupiter. It helps in controlling the heating to a certain extent and thus it also helps in improving batter life. All you have to do is to install Jupiter and choose Power Saving mode from the options in Performance. [Read more…]
I made a decision to switch to Linux Mint from Ubuntu. After the successful installation I tried to install some of my favorite applications that include Dropbox, Ubutnu One and Google Chrome.
To install Google Chrome, I downloaded the from Google Chrome website and when I double clicked on it to install it gave me following error: [Read more…]
There is a file (mainly log files) which you want to see but its content keep on changing. You want to see the in real time in a way that you can see only the current changing content for better analysis. This is one of the classic situation where you want to read a log while running the application. [Read more…]
In this post we will see how to add an application in start-up so that it automatically starts each time you login in to Ubuntu.
Go to Unity or Gnome dash and look for Main Menu:
Ubuntu is conducting an official survey to know what users think about Ubuntu, how much satisfied they actually are with the Ubuntu experience and whether or not they would like to use the experimental new service offered by Ubuntu apart from the basic demographic information.
So the users who always cry for “I hate Unity” or “I hate Gnome” should take Ubuntu Survey to have their say in an overall assessment of the survey.Belwo is the link to official Ubuntu survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UbuntuSurvey2012
Results will be declared soon and will be available to everyone. Kindly spread the word and encourage more users to take the survey.
It happened to me a number of times. Usually, I am habitual of using Ctrl+S to save a text editor like Word, Gedit etc. What goes wrong is when I am editing in command line editor such as Vi and I press Ctrl+S or if I accidently press this combination of key. Because it makes the terminal dead, frozen, hanged.
Using Ctrl+S in Linux terminal locks the terminal output and it seems as if the terminal is frozen or hanged. It frustrates the most when it happens for the first time and user is simply unaware of the fact that he has accidently locked the terminal output.
To unlock the terminal output use Ctrl+Q. It will resume the terminal output and put it back to normal.
Hope it helped you. Cheers 
By default Ubuntu check for updates daily. If for any reasons you want to change the schedule so that Ubuntu check for updates once in week or month or never, here is how to that:
Question and suggestions are welcomed. Cheers
Ubuntu 12.04, the LTS (Long Term Support) version, beta version is out. According to the release schedule of Ubuntu 12.04, the final version will be released by the end of April. In case you are an early adopter and wants to try your hand on the beta release, here is how to upgrade to the beta version:
Enjoy Ubuntu 12.04. Cheers
Imagine a scenario where you want to delete a directory (lets say dir_name) which contains lots of subdirectories (folders) and files. You may encounter the following errors if you try rm or rmdir:
rm: cannot remove `dir_name': Is a directory
rmdir: failed to remove `dir_name': Directory not empty
cannot remove directory `dir_name’. Directory not empty
To avoid this problem use the following command:
rm -rf dir_nameIt will delete all the content of dir_name including the subdirectories.