Ever wanted to modify your list of custom-added applications from perhaps a remotely logged in shell? Well, there is really not much to it, as aside from the base “skeleton” startup programs, Debian / Ubuntu stores...
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Having SSH is totally great to administer your servers and such, but if you ever face a situation that absolutely requires a few clicks to be made on the GUI, then at best you are screwed. For the technically savvy this might not...
Making a bootable USB drive off of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS is fairly easy and there are even a lot of graphical tools available to do it. However, there is one silly mistake that slips in during the process of decompression...
Many of us have experienced that after updating to Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS, the halt command seems to do partial job: it really does halt the system, but it does not effectively power it down. Numerous fixes have been issued...
Upgrading our Ubuntu Linux installtion (be it 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 or 11.10) can be fairly easy with the aid of the graphical update manager tool. However, in some cases the CLI (command line interface) is the only viable option...
Usual, frequent backups – containing just about everything – are highly favoured by a wide-range of sysadmins. In some scenarios, it is more than enough to just issue a full backup (including the kitchen sink) then to...
Forgetting a long – usually pwgen generated – password can truly be a pain. There are numerous methods of circumventing the password authentication protection, what we will be dealing with today is extracting the...