By default, Ubuntu does not show Computer,home,network and Trash icon on the desktop in Ubuntu. Instead Ubuntu shows the Trash icon on the extreme right of the bottom...

Zattoo has developed a software program that allows you to watch TV on your computer. All you need is a broadband connection and a current operating system (Windows XP...

A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are...

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are...

Total newb. It took me days to find this solution so I thought it worth posting to improve somebody else’s chances of finding it. (...)Read the rest of Fix for...

I’m sure many of you have heard by this point that there is a reported vulnerability in openSSL and openSSH. The basis of this is that they keys that are generated...

Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential...

After much thought and ongoing questions regarding the best way to install the new WeatherBug for Linux application, I have opted to create a simple how-to here at Ubuntu...

Introduction: I’m sure you have copied/moved files on your computer from one place to another. And I’m sure often you have to do more than just “single-shot”...

I have an old noname cheapo webcam, that I dusted out of my junk (why? More on that in a post coming soon). I hoped that it would work in my Ubuntu setup out of the box...

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or...

Am I doing something wrong? My Update Manager is downloading at a rate of about 1Mb/day! The System Monitor shows that about 100 to 400 bytes are downloaded every 5...

Conduit is a synchronization solution for GNOME which allows the user to take their emails, files, bookmarks, and any other type of personal information and synchronize...

colordiff is a wrapper for diff and produces the same output as diff but with coloured syntax highlighting at the command line to improve readability. The output is...

Date: October 2001 Place: Meerut Problem: Desktop hanging again and again after 5 mins from boot up Details: Cyrix Machine, running Windows ME Follow-Up: Complete...

If you want to select Ubuntu mirror which works fastest for you follow these steps this is very important to any ubuntu user to download and install ubuntu packages...

Compiz-Check is a script to test if Compiz is able to run on your system/setup and if not, it will tell you the reason why. The script is suitable for GNOME, KDE and...

FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup tool based on rsync It creates successive backup directories mirroring the files you wish to backup, but hard-links unchanged files...

If you want to make your windows XP,Vista Machines look like ubuntu you need to follow this procedure Start with the visual style, if you haven’t already install...

Install compiz-fusion plugins on Ubuntu with compiz-git.You need to follow this procedure to install Download compiz-git using the following commands In a terminal use...