The following articles below were published during the month of December 2011 (times are based on UTC):
The ls command is used to list the files present in a particular directory/directories. By default it lists the files present in the current directory by their names providing no extra information. The output might sometimes be color-coded (depending on the way your .bashrc and .bash_profile are configured). The point of this blogpost is that the ls command is much more useful than just colouring up your terminal. It's awesome and we are going to use it to glean information about the files/directories present in our system. Here is the output of the ls command without any parameters. nits@nits-excalibur:~$ ls Aptana_Studio_3 Downloads Pictures Testing2 Aptana Studio 3 Workspace Dropbox Podcasts Ubuntu One Audiobooks examples.desktop projects Videos cloudsn-0.8.12 Firefox_wallpaper.png Public Desktop ...
Access to every file/directory in Linux is beautifully controlled by permissions. Many times we are not able to wrap our heads around file permissions (in the beginning stages anyway), but it's not all that complicated. So let's see what the fuss is about. The ls -lcommand provides a line like the following for each file or directory. drwxr-xr-x 4 nits nits 4096 2011-11-27 20:48 Documents/ The first column lists the permissions of the file/directory. Here we see that there are 10 characters in whole. The first character shows the file type, the next three characters show what permissions the user owning the file has, the three characters after that show what permissions the group owning the file has and the ...
Yes, including you! The 2buntu team (well, most of us are probably busy eating/opening gifts/sleeping/recovering from strong liquids :)), would like to wish you a very blessed Christmas this year! We hope you enjoy it, and share love with everyone you know, even your enemies, and remember the message of the one who makes it possible for us to even breathe today. You probably won't hear too much from us until the end of the year and the start of the new year, so until then, we love you all, and stay safe :)! P.S.: About the Firefox feature - it's in the inspector on nightly builds :). P.S. 2: Thanks to all who have supported us through the year ...
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The "Terminal is your friend" is a series of tutorials that will help beginners understand and use the terminal effectively and not shy away from it. In this section we'll be discussing the different ways in which we can use the apt-get package management tool to install/remove and do some other cool things and the apt-cache tool. The apt package management tools are used in Debian and other Debian-based distros like Ubuntu. The examples were executed on a machine running Ubuntu 11.10. Note: Some commands like sudo apt-get --assume-no install <package-name>,with the double-dash as a parameter is shown as a single big dash due to the themeing. Please excuse us and bear with it. (The formatting in the examples is ...
It appears it was a Greasemonkey script, required to get the notify-osd support through the chromify-osd plugin, that was causing the weird behaviour. I've disabled this for now, and I'll continue testing to find a fix overall. I believe it may be related to changes in Firefox 11 that affected Greasemonkey in some way. Thank you for your patience and sticking with us!
For some reason (still trying to find the cause), the notify-osd plugin for Firefox/Chrome keeps getting put on to our posts (seems to be localized to my browser!). This is causing you to be asked to install a missing plugin, but then you won't find any plugin available. This is a known issue and I'm trying to find the cause (and clean up any "infected" posts). The warning is totally harmless though, so you may continue using/viewing the blog as usual :).
Monkey+Fox= Unbeatable Team Ever since the new visual layout of Google+ came out there has been a feeling that Google are pushing the Chrome agenda. However people love an Underdog or fox in this case and this "underfox" has a couple of secret and awesomely powerful weapons in its arsenal Grease Monkey an add on allowing you to use user scripts to change the look and functionality of sites. The other weapon is people lots and lots of passionate people. Enough of the Waffle Show me the Money First you will need to add the Grease Monkey add-on which you can get here Then you will need to add the script (click on the green install button in the ...
[caption id="attachment_2368" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Nightingale's official logo"][/caption] At last! Just when I thought the project must have died and was about to give up on it - Nightingale, the Linux focused fork of Linux-shafting media player/web-browser mashup - Songbird, shows not only a sign of life, but of vitality! I have only just downloaded it and run it for the first time (I've also installed two addons, the Media Flow "cover flow" look-alike extension, and a new feather), so there's not much to report yet, but I will do that in the coming days. For now, screenshots... because it happened. Click the screenshots for the full view. [caption id="attachment_2364" align="aligncenter" width="506" caption="The default feather"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_2363" align="aligncenter" width="492" ...
Nothing. Dell has been a supporter of Ubuntu for some time now, but their support has been relatively lackluster, and after a woman claimed Ubuntu on a Dell ruined her life (not really but the Media reported it that way) - one wonders just how much of a big deal it is when Dell stops producing one of the few remaining devices on which they sold the OS. Furthermore... it's our time to shine for ourselves and not in someone else's limelight.