As the Ubuntu’s new tag line says “It’s time for a change.”, indeed a lot of change has been implemented to the operating system, applications and the interface. There are few which you will find it interesting and useful and while few others might annoy you because of a sudden change. I never liked Ubuntu … Read more
Here is how you can compile the mother of all editors on Ubuntu 10.04 from source: 1. Obtain the source archive for Emacs from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ 2. Open a Terminal in Ubuntu and type: A. sudo apt-get install build-essential libxpm-dev libgif-dev libtiff4-dev B. This will install the necessary packages to compile Emacs. 3. Extract the Emacs … Read more
Here is some code that will add some security to your /etc/sshd_config file: Enable X11Forwarding Force Version 2 of the protocol Disable all the usual RHosts garbage Disable root logons Disable the use of empty passwords Copy the code below to a text file and make it executable then run it using the sudo command. … Read more
Put together a couple of simple shell scripts that will automatically download the latest deb stable release for Ubuntu/Debian and installing it via dpkg. Below are the two scripts for both 32 and 64 bit architectures. You could easily drop these in /etc/cron.daily to have nightly builds done. I386(32 Bit) Script X64(64 Bit) Script
If your like me and have to logon to multiple Linux/UNIX systems by means of SSH, manually entering a password for each logon session can be a pain. The procedure below will enable you to run all of your SSH sessions password free. We will use what is termed as public-key SSH authentication and the … Read more