The ability to know where your stuffs (that is files) are stored in your hard drive is necessity for any PC user. This is because majority of everyday interaction with the computer system exclusively involves manipulating files – and by extension directories. Such manipulation include copying, moving edit and the likes. And in the Linux… Read More »
Formating in Ubuntu Linux is easy like in windows. There are applications several applications that could be used to format any removable thumb drives. Here we would be using the default ‘disk’ utility that ships with Ubuntu. Open the disk program. Click the Ubuntu icon on the upper-left corner of the unity desktop (or you… Read More »
It is not difficult, as always portrayed, to share files between Linux and android devices. Apps like SSHDroid (a Secure SHell client) can share files with a Linux system/PC with ease. I’ll show you. Many people still believe that the only way to transfer files between a PC and your android device is through the… Read More »
If you have not ever been in a situation where you needed help, please say aye!…this time the “nays” have it. In every facet of our lives there is always a point when we look for something to give us an explanation, an example or direction on how a particular activity can be done. So… Read More »
Reducing the brightness of your PC is a very good thing to do for several reasons, among which are the reduction of power (battery) consumption and the optical effects it can have on the eyes of a regular PC user. By default I set the brightness of all my systems to the lowest value possible… Read More »
STEP 1: Open the terminal (short code: CTRL+ALT+T). STEP 2: And it should have a default solid colour as background like this. STEP 3: Right click on any part of the terminal and select the “profile” option, the “Profile Preferences”. STEP 4: Select the “background” tab to reveal 3 options: “Solid color”, “Background image”, “Transparent… Read More »
A simple way to make files hidden in Linux is to simply rename such file or folder, beginning the file name with a dot (‘.’) – Yeah that simple. In Linux hidden files or directories (folders) are identified by the ‘.’ That precede their names. For those that still need a step by step method… Read More »
The simple syntax or format for doing this is; SHUTDOWN… # shutdown #shutdown <options> TIME [message] OPTIONS: p – power off h – halt (a sort of “sleep” or ”hibernate”) r – reboot c – cancel shutdown (after initiating a shutdown within a specified time, use this option to cancel it) To put the… Read More »
I’ve written a couple of posts on how files and folders (directories) are compressed on the command line using tools like gzip, bzip2 and tar directly. So I decided to do a post that would cater for those of us that like to just fine with the GUI. It is a relatively simple method that… Read More »
The next tool in line of compression tools is the tape archiver (tar). Though the command somewhat has some complex (though capable) set of command line options and syntax, like we have been doing with others we’ve talked about (gzip and bzip) you can quickly learn to use tar by remembering a few simple invocations… Read More »
