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How Ubuntu saved me a Bomb of money!

Posted by Dr Saurabh Bhatia on May 9th, 2008


Date: October 2001
Place: Meerut
Problem: Desktop hanging again and again after 5 mins from boot up
Details: Cyrix Machine, running Windows ME
Follow-Up: Complete breakdown
Post-Mortem: CPU fan malfunctioned. Complete burnout of the CPU.
Cost: Whoops!!!

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Posted in General, Monitoring | | 7 Comments »

How To select fastest mirror in Ubuntu

Posted by admin on May 9th, 2008

If you want to select Ubuntu mirror which works fastest for you follow these steps this is very important to any ubuntu user to download and install ubuntu packages fastest way.

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Check Compiz will run on your ubuntu desktop or not

Posted by admin on May 8th, 2008

Compiz-Check is a script to test if Compiz is able to run on your system/setup and if not, it will tell you the reason why.

The script is suitable for GNOME, KDE and Xfce users and is not limited to a specific Linux distribution – in fact, the script lists those infos for you.

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Flyback - Snapshot-based backup tool based on rsync

Posted by admin on May 7th, 2008

FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup tool based on rsync It creates successive backup directories mirroring the files you wish to backup, but hard-links unchanged files to the previous backup. This prevents wasting disk space while providing you with full access to all your files without any sort of recovery program. If your machine crashes, just move your external drive to your new machine and copy the latest backup using whatever file browser you normally use.

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How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu

Posted by admin on May 6th, 2008

If you want to make your windows XP,Vista Machines look like ubuntu you need to follow this procedure

Start with the visual style, if you haven’t already install Uxtheme Multipatcher, this will remove the limitations on your system, in order to install new themes. Then download the Human Visual Style

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Try right click.