by Richard W | Mar 9, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Today is day six of our thirty-day series called ‘Thirty Days with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)’. We’re going to continue from where we left off on Day Five. This series started with installing Ubuntu on Day One and continued onto Day Five where we showed you how to...
by Richard W | Mar 8, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This short guide shows you how to turn on or turn off mounted volumes on the desktop whenever they are mounted in Ubuntu 11.10. If you have this feature turned on, everytime you insert an external USB drive or a volume / share that are set to automatically mount, it...
by Richard W | Mar 7, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
A new version of Wine ( a program that lets you install Windows software in Ubuntu) was released today. This version is 1.4 and comes with many enhancements and fixes. It took almost 2 years of development work and over 16,000 individual changes, but it’s finally...
by Richard W | Mar 7, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This brief tutorial shows you how to change the default behavior of Unity Launcher in Ubuntu 2D sessions. There are three modes you can choose from when it comes to how the launcher behaves in Ubuntu 2D. The first has an integer of ( 0 ). This mode enables the...
by Richard W | Mar 6, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Security
This brief tutorial shows you how to quickly enable Unix-style permissions in Ubuntu 11.10. It’s not something that’s everyone should do or enable, but it’s nice to have it. It lets you set permissions based on the original Unix permission model (rwx, rwx, rwx). This...
