When transferring large amounts of data, its a good idea to tar/gzip it first. What if there is not enough space on the source system to contain both the original content and the tar/gzipped content? ...

This is a short HOWTO on setting up secure shell access without a password Generating Keys Protocol version 1 key generation To create the most simple key, with the default encryption, open up a...

With Ubuntu 8.10, the previous method doesn't work. This is a way to manually set the keyboard layouts: Create a file in /usr/bin/ vim /usr/bin/fixkeyboard Add following lines in this file. I am usin...

To install TrueType on a gnome system, follow these steps: Create a ~/.fonts directory. Copy the TrueType files to your ~/.fonts directory. Verify that the fonts are available to your system wi...

Ubuntu version that was used: 8.04 To begin, install some packages that may be required later on: sudo apt-get install binutils cpp fetchmail flex gcc libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-...

If you need to use multiple keyboard layouts, the panel keyboard layout switch in Xfce is not very useful (at least at the time of this writing). All you can do is add it to the panel and see your def...

Why Xubuntu? Xfce is ideal workstation desktop environment for slower end computers (P2 and up with 256 megs of RAM or so). Kubuntu and Ubuntu with KDE and Gnome can consume quite a bit of resources, ...