Libraries have been around for quite some time. One of the nice things about living in the digital age, however, is being able to check out books from the library in digital form. Ebooks, in other words. In order to take advantage of this, a computer user needs to have a library card, access to […]
In a previous article, we detailed how to use the tar command to create archives. While tar is a very common compression scheme for Linux, it isn’t nearly as popular for Windows and Mac OS X users, who will find most of their archives created using the zip format. It’s easy to use Zip (to […]
In Linux, it’s pretty simple (as it is in most operating systems), to restart your computer, logout of your user account, or completely shutdown your system. Often, it’s as simple as hitting the power button on your computer, or clicking a button on the toolbar. In Ubuntu, you’ll see a window like this appear. You’ll […]
If you keep your computer on all the time, and are looking for a nice way to wake up in the morning, it’s simple. All you need is your regular music player and the ‘sleep’ command. The ‘sleep’ command is a built-in tool (at least in Ubuntu), that allows you to set a timer for […]
In a previous article, we talked about different ways to use the ‘dd’ command in Linux. The ‘dd’ command is useful for many different tasks, such as creating disk images, backing up partitions, and writing disk images to portable flash drives. Of course, ‘dd’ is only available via the Terminal, and is also capable of […]
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In Ubuntu, Nautilus is the default file manager. It also takes care of drawing the desktop and icons, such as folders, files, archives and removable media. Nautilus has the ability to display your computer’s icon, the home folder icon, a network icon, trash can icon, and icons for any mounted volumes, such as CDs, DVDs, […]
If you’re a new, or even experienced Linux user, chances are pretty good that no matter how hard you try, there is always that one Windows program you need. Maybe it’s for work. Often a business will mandate a certain format for documents, and no matter how good it is, or how comfortable you might […]
Every time you install Linux, you’re given the option to partition your hard drive. This is necessary because – in most cases – Linux needs its own partition to operate. Partitioning a hard drive is basically slicing the hard drive into separate, discreet sections, each of which is viewed by the computer as an individual […]
If you’re looking to extract the audio from Flash Video files (FLV format), there are a few options available. Unfortunately, the choice many of them make for you is to encode the audio stream to a different format. In some cases this isn’t a problem, but if you’re trying to keep the audio identical to […]
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We have previously written about how to kill a non-responsive program in Windows (see our post, How to Kill a Program using the Command Line). If you are an Ubuntu user, there is a similar method of terminating non-responsive programs. Instead of logging out or rebooting to end the program, there are a couple of […]
