Question: Firefox 3 is very slow on my Ubuntu. How do I fix it? Some of the symptoms are — Scrolling on a web page is very sluggish, running flash on Firefox is slow, watching YouTube videos on Firefox is slow. Answer: Try one of the following suggestions, which may solve the Firefox running slow [...]
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PuTTY is hands-down the best SSH client for Windows. It’s light-weight with a single putty.exe file and nothing else to install. A while back we wrote about 12 powerful PuTTY software add-ons and explained how PuTTY connection manager can help you to organize PuTTY SSH sessions in tabs. In this article, let us review 10 [...]
Question: How do I open Firefox browser (or any application) automatically when I login to Ubuntu or Kubuntu ? Answer: In gnome you can do this by using the gnome-control-center (or) directly from the “Startup Application Preferences” as explained in this article. Step 1: Go to “Startup Application Preferences” in Ubuntu Go to System -> [...]
Question: How to enable automatic login in Ubuntu or Kubuntu ? Answer: You can enable auto login in Ubuntu using the following 3 simple steps. Please understand that it is not security best practices to enable the automatic login. Do this only if you are in a controlled environment and very confident that nobody will [...]
Question: Why my cron job does not get executed at the specified time ? Answer: There may be lot of reasons why a cron job may not get executed. Let us review 5 important reasons of why a cron job does not run at the specified time and how to resolve those issues. 1. Misinterpretation [...]
In this article let us review how to correct spelling of a word, identify meaning for a word, identify antonym for a word right from Unix / Linux command line. 1. Lookup Words Beginning with a Given String Using Look Command Look-up the correct spelling for a word using Unix look command as shown below. [...]
ls – Unix users and sysadmins cannot live without this two letter command. Whether you use it 10 times a day or 100 times a day, knowing the power of ls command can make your command line journey enjoyable. In this article, let us review 15 practical examples of the mighty ls command. 1. Open [...]
Question: How do I view, modify and recreate the new initrd.img on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Red-Hat, Arch Linux, or SUSE distributions? 1. How To View Content Of initrd.img file? initrd.img is in gzip format. So move initrd.img to initrd.gz as shown below. # cp /tftpboot/el5/initrd.img . # ls cdrom initrd.img # mv initrd.img initrd.gz [...]