Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system GNU/Linux can be scary to a new user. After all, what if you mess up? What if you end up corrupting your hard drive so badly that you need to format it to get rid of GNU/Linux? The solution is to use virtualization technology. A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer, so you can install and run it from within another operating system. If you want to get rid of the virtualized (also known as the guest) operating system, just delete the virtual hard disk from the real (host) computer’s hard drive.
ProcessTamer - Mouser - Software Process Tamer is a tiny (140k) and super efficient utility for Microsoft Windows XP/2K/NT/Vista/Win7 that runs in your system tray and constantly monitors the cpu usage of other processes. When it sees a process that is overloading your cpu, it reduces the priority of that process temporarily, until its cpu usage returns to a reasonable level. screenshot: Anatomy of the Linux kernel History and architectural decomposition M. Tim JonesPublished on June 06, 2007
Free File Comparison and Differencing Utilities (Text files, Binary files, Diff Utilities) The file comparison tools on this page are useful in a few ways. Firstly, they can tell you whether 2 files have identical content or not. Secondly, they can also be used to pinpoint the exact differences between 2 files (especially if they are plain text files). Thirdly, for programmers, they can be used to create patch files that can be used to update one of those files to the other (useful for sending small updates to your end users without requiring them to re-download everything).
35 Cool Applications to install on Ubuntu 7.04 35 Cool Applications to install on Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.04 is undoubtedly one of the most popular Linux distribution especially for Linux newbies , now overall it is extremely usable and good but a very limited number of applications are by default shipped with Ubuntu 7.04 . Now here in this WinUpdatesList - View Windows Updates (Service Packs and Hotfixes) See Also NK2Edit - Edit, merge and repair the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Microsoft Outlook. Description WinUpdatesList displays the list of all Windows updates (Service Packs and Hotfixes) installed on your local computer. For hotfix updates, this utility also displays the list of files updated with these hotfixes. In addition, it allows you to instantly open the Web link in Microsoft Web site that provides more information about the selected update, uninstall an update, copy the update information to the clipboard, or save it to text/HTML/XML file.
Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very little knowlegde of using Linux. Install Apache To start off we will install Apache.
Karen's Replicator ** Updated November 28, 2009 Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives! Karen's Replicator copies selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network. Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, or as long as several months, copy only files that have changed, and the replication of folder and file deletions.
Seamlessly integrate XP into Linux with SeamlessRDP To make this work, you need three tools installed on your system. Though not open source, VMware Server is free as in beer; it requires a license number that you get from the same page where you download the program. (Of course you also need a copy of Windows XP to run under VMware Server.) rdesktop is a Remote Desktop Protocol client bundled with virtually every Linux distro, and Cendio's SeamlessRDP is a GPL-licensed utility that lets you integrate rdesktop with Windows XP. With this solution, you're connecting to a virtual machine in the background, but you don't see a window frame or the Windows desktop. Peopleware - Tecnologia, Software, Tutoriais 10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu Ubuntu is becoming more and more complete and easy to configure. However, like any operating system there’s work to be done after the installation. Here’s a list of 10 tips that you can use after installing or upgrading Ubuntu. Install software faster As a commenter on Slashdot said: I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of apt-get repositories had cried out in pain, and were suddenly silenced.
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