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Most of you have probably used Windows before you started using Ubuntu. During that time you might have needed to backup and restore your system. For Windows you would need proprietary software for which you would have to reboot your machine and boot into a special environment in which you could perform [...]

If want to restore Windows Bootloader and for some reason cannot use the windows installation cd, there is a simple way to do it:
NOTE: make sure you have internet working.
1) Boot with Ubuntu Live CD or Linux Mint Live CD
2) On the terminal:
sudo apt-get install ms-sys
then
ms-sys –mbr /dev/hdX
NOTE: in my case [...]

Two easy steps:

Download the most recent version of XAMPP: (at time of writing 1.5.3a)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x…ar.gz?download
(Source URL: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374)
Extract the archive to /opt using sudo: (make sure you are in the directory that you downloaded the archive to)

Code:
sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.5.3a.tar.gz -C /opt

Start XAMPP
To start it up, open a terminal and type this:

Code:
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Stop [...]

This guide was tested on Ubuntu 8.10 and is sum of topic discussed in post How to control process to not consume more then 20% of CPU?
1. INSTALL CPULIMIT PACKAGE

Code:
sudo apt-get install cpulimit

Note: daemon also requires gawk package to be present. Install gawk package:

Code:
sudo apt-get install gawk

2. WRITE CPULIMIT DAEMON FILE

Code:
#!/bin/bash
# ==============================================================
# [...]

Open a Terminal
Type:

Code:
cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts

Type:

Code:
gedit convert\ wma\ to\ mp3

# Paste the following code into the file:

Code:
#! /bin/sh
# wma to mp3 script by mtron
zenity –info \
–text=”this script converts all wma files in the current folder
to mp3s and puts them in the folder output

all lame command line options [...]

This howto guide was created to describe setting up a Squid Proxy/DansGuardian server using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS installed with the LAMP server option. This guide assumes the user has previous knowledge of installing a LAMP server using Ubuntu and will not be covered. While each program may have a multitude of options [...]

Lets take a look at some very simple commands on the Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron desktop that will allow us to effectively accomplish some small tasks. After you’ve opened the Terminal window you can start typing in the commands. Below is a list of some useful commands and what they are used [...]

Microsoft is trying to make it easier to sway users of Windows XP onto the latest version of its operating system.
For some time now, the company has been quietly building a “Windows XP mode” that uses virtualization to allow Windows 7 to easily run applications designed for Windows XP. According to sources familiar with the [...]

An Oklahoma City man who allegedly threatened on Twitter to turn a tax protest into a massacre has been arrested on suspicion of making interstate threats in what is believed to be the first federal prosecution based on posts made to the micro-blogging site.
The FBI arrested Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, after agents identified him as [...]

Facebook plans to announce at a developer event Monday that it will open up user-contributed information to third-party developers, according to a report Sunday in The Wall Street Journal.
The move would allow developers to build applications and services that–with users’ permission–access user videos, photos, notes, and comments. The move would be a significant change for the social-networking [...]