by Richard W | May 14, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
How can one find out his/her system’s information in using Ubuntu? This question came in yesterday from one of our readers. She wanted to know if it was possible for her to view her system’s information like what you have in Windows that shows you the size of your...
by Richard W | May 13, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
Manually running the same tasks over and over again with your computer can be tiring and sometimes boring. That’s why some programs and tools were created by system administrators to automate repetitive tasks. For example, remembering to shutdown your computer every...
by Richard W | May 9, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Internet, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Web, Windows
If you know anything about bittorrent and how to download movies and pirated software online, then you may have probably heard of uTorrent. It’s one of the most popular bittorrent clients available and mostly supported on Windows and Mac OS X systems. For Linux,...
by Richard W | May 9, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Windows
The Document Foundation (TDF) has just announced the third minor release of the LibreOffice 4.0 family line for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems, including Ubuntu with signed packages to meet or pass OS X Gatekeeper security without user intervention. This release...
by Richard W | May 9, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Windows
Some power users have complained about why Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu removed the nice Users and Groups management tool that was in previous versions of Ubuntu. Remember that? The GNOME Users and Groups tool that came with Ubuntu to easily manage user and...
by Richard W | May 8, 2013 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
Is is it still possible to open files and folders as administrator in Ubuntu 13.04? That was a question from one of our readers on this site. Is it possible? Can you easily enable it? Does your old method work? Quite honestly, I don’t know. I really haven’t used...
