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So far so good. Hit an issue on one machine that was running both Xubuntu and Ubuntu. Need to remove xubuntu-desktop before doing the upgrade to let it go through properly. PLAIN TEXT CODE: apt-get remove xubuntu-desktop Restart the machine and try the update again, should all go fine More Reading:Ubuntu Git Install 1.7.5 and [...]

If your ubuntu panels go wonky check out this little script courtesy of http://bithacker.posterous.com: PLAIN TEXT CODE: #!/bin/sh # # GNOME Panel Save / Restore # Writen by PhrankDaChicken # # http://ubuntu.online02.com # # # Updated to add restore defaults by jimjimovich # http://www.starryhope.com # #     DIR=$(pwd) TITLE="PanelRestore"   Main () {   [...]

You want it, Ubuntu Supplies It: sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal More Reading:Debugging Programmatically Opened Terminals in GnomeCustom Terminals for SSH in Gnome UbuntuUbuntu Nautilus Sudo Extension – Open as SudoNetbeans Uppercase, Lowercase and Switch Case – useful key comboUbuntu 10.10 is Dead… What next?Restore lessc -w functionality, extendable to anything that needs to watch a [...]

The latest incarnation of Ubuntu is out in a couple of days Looking forward to upgrading and taking advantage of the latest and greatest version of this awesome operating system! More Reading:Netbeans Uppercase, Lowercase and Switch Case – useful key comboUbuntu 10.10 is Dead… What next?Restore lessc -w functionality, extendable to anything that needs to [...]

1] Download the latest version of ( XAMPP For Linux ) here 2] Install it. To install lampp, extract and put in /opt directory. Remember to extract it as ROOT. 3] Download Development package from same site. 4] Extract it, copy and paste "include" folder from Development package to /opt/lampp directory. ( This package would [...]

If you need to do a bulk find and replace operation on a load of files within a particular folder structure, for example when refactoring some of your code, then instead of trying to use your IDE you could give this little app a try. It's called Regexxer: http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/ And is in the Ubuntu repositories [...]

If you use nautilus to manage your files (if you are using Ubuntu, you do) and you would like a quick way to open files with sudo rights, check out the nautilus-gksu package. This extends nautilus allowing you "open as administrator" from a right click menu. This is a great time saver and a much [...]

If you use Virtual Box for virtual machines (eg testing web sites in IE, what fun) then this is of interest to you. There is another feature which I have only just discovered called Guest Additions. This is something that you can install into your VM which gives much tighter integration with the host OS. [...]

If you want to add another harddrive to your Ubuntu system, the easiest way to handle it is to use Gparted (think partition magic for Linux). You can install via the add applications menu in Applications. Once you create your various partitions though, you might get confused because you can't actually write to them. Gparted [...]

If like me you have a Linux drive, but also run NTFS drives for windows/buntu compatability reasons (in my case, simply archive drives that I haven't got around to moving from NTFS to EXT). After nuking my machine thanks to trying a variety of advice found on the net. (I don't recommend you use pySDM [...]