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This article will show you how to use the head command in Linux. head is used to print out the beginning of a file. For example, this is useful when you have a giant text file and you want to preview the contents without attempting to open the entire file. Here are some common examples [...]

This article will show you how to add a network printer on a Ubuntu 9.10 system. Let’s go ahead and get started…
Navigate to System –> Administration –> Printing

Then choose Server –> New –> Printer from the Printer configuration window

The New Printer wizard will be displayed. Here you can add either local or network printers. For [...]

This article will show you how to kill (or end) multiple processes or instances of a running script with a single command.
If you are like me, you have run into this situation many many times. You run the ps command to list all the currently running processes and you see that there are multiple instances [...]

This article will show you how to change your monitor resolution in Ubuntu 9.10. Most of us are long-time Windows users and we are very used to the interface and how to do a simple task like this. But for Linux newbies, it can get frustrating to navigate all the menu options to find the [...]

Codenamed Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10 was officially released today.  Some noteworthy new features include:

Faster start-up times
Upgrade to Gnome 2.28
Now available in 25 different languages
New Intel video driver architecture for improved performance
ext4 is now the default filesystem
and many many more!

How to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10?

Navigate to System -> Administration -> Update Manager
Click the Upgrade button next [...]

This article will show you are to disable UAC (User Access Controls) aka those pesky popup dialogs where you must enter your password in Ubuntu Linux! As many of you know, this feature was implemented in Windows Vista but went horribly wrong and is the reason it has been removed in Windows 7. Linux, which [...]

This article will show you how to install/enable the SSHD service on the Linux operating system (Ubuntu in this case). By default, the Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop edition does not come with SSHD installed. This means that remote users are not able to connect to the box via SSH. Luckily, it is very easy to allow [...]

Do you have a Solaris 10 (x86 or SPARC) box that you are able to connect to by IP address, but not by hostname? You might have spent hours trying to resolve this issue like me, but here is the quick and easy solution!
Assigning a hostname to a Solaris 10 machine

Login to the command-line terminal [...]

This article will show you how to restart the sshd service on Solaris 10.
To Restart the SSH Service

Login to the command-line terminal
Run the command:

svcadm restart svc:/network/ssh:default

This article will introduce you to a free, open-source software called TrueCrypt, which encrypts files on your hard drive. This software can be used on Linux, MacOS, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003/2008. TrueCrypt encrypts/decrypts all file names, directory names, file contents, etc on your hard drive in memory (RAM), without any user intervention. [...]