Enter into shell Boot into “Ubuntu (Recovery Mode)” From the recovery menu drop to a root shell. Enter the following command to remount your filesystem as read-write: mount -o remount,rw / Make the required changes to your operating system and
Running Google Chrome as Root in Ubuntu 13.10
Open google-chrome located in /usr/bin with ‘gedit’, ‘kate’ or your favorite text editor. Code: gedit /usr/bin/google-chrome Add “–user-data-dir” (without the quotes) at the very end of the file. Mine looks like this: exec -a “$0” “$HERE/chrome” “$@” –user-data-dir Save, close
Tasksel – Single line command for complex installation
Task selection utility tasksel is a very nice tool in linux to help you perform task based installations Installation : sudo apt-get install tasksel Execute : # tasksel
Checking out list of Input Devices on X Server
Learnt a new command today to checkout the list of all the installed devices on the Ubuntu xinput list Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic
Touchpad issue in Acer Laptop (Ubuntu 13.04)
Just purchased a new Acer i5 laptop and found its Elantech touchpad not working properly inside Ubuntu. Worked like a charm in Windows though which eliminated any issue with the hardware. On digging more I found that the issue is
Computer RAM gone bad ? Repair in 5 Minutes
Problem : Most of the time issues with the RAM are heat related which causes crack in the soldering making RAM unresponsive to the system. Solution: You can easily resolve this problem by heating the RAM with hot air blow
Bonding Ethernet Cards in Linux
Providing more than one ethernet card to the network for communication over the server helps in introducing hardware redundancy thereby providing additional layer for protection from downtime of the server. In this tutorial we shall be learning how to bond
Change Network Interface Cards Name in Ubuntu
Sometimes you wish to allocate more friendly names to the ethernet cards in ubuntu for better administration of the linux. In this tutorial you can learn how to do that. Step 1: Issue “sudo ifconfig” command to check the current
Ubuntu Task Selection in terminal
Easy installation of ubuntu or mint linux LAMP Server or other features can be simply achieved by using tasksel program. sudo apt-get install tasksel tasksel
Ubuntu 12.04 – Install D-Link DWA-131 rev. B1 wifi adapter
1. Check Hardware First thing is to check that your key is the right one. You can check it by two ways : package barcode showing H/W Ver.:B1 F/W Ver.:2.00 USB Vendor ID 2001 and Device ID 330d # lsusb …