Posted by: SiiN on: August 28, 2008
Use this command:
lsb_release -a
in terminal
Posted by: SiiN on: August 15, 2008
dpkg –get-selections
Posted by: SiiN on: August 4, 2008
First of all, add Medibuntu repository in your sources list. This can be done via:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
Once this is done, add Medibuntu GPG key.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
Then update the list of available packages by
sudo apt-get update
Finally, install Acrobat Reader using
sudo apt-get install [...]
Posted by: SiiN on: February 28, 2008
Yo!
Finally I managed to connect to the net using my laptop. DHCP server was not giving an IP from the lease when I try to connect
from my lappy. I found out the issue – my ISP was blocking the mac address of my laptops network card – why – who knows [...]
Posted by: SiiN on: February 10, 2008
Debian based systems use the file /etc/hostname to read the hostname of the computer at boot time and set it up using the init script /etc/init.d/hostname.sh
We can edit the file /etc/hostname and change the hostname and then run:
/etc/init.d/hostname.sh start
Steps:
1. sudo gedit /etc/hostname
2. Save the file with the hostname you like to set
3. sudo /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start
Ref: [...]
Posted by: SiiN on: October 11, 2007
o Switch windows = Alt+Tab
o Arrange and view all windows = Moving the pointer to the top right screen corner turns on or off; clicking a window will zoom it to the front
o Switch desktops on cube = Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right Arrow (or moving your mouse to the edge of your screen and rolling your mouse wheel)
o [...]
Posted by: SiiN on: September 10, 2007
I had waring messages poping up on rebooting Ubuntu after installing Debian. It was demanding an fsck on the drive I formated from debian during installation. The error message was something related to UUID.
I have fixed it by adding the new UUID of the formated drive in /etc/fstab
You can find uuid using
sudo [...]
