Turn on Bash Smart Completion January 28, 2006 Posted by Carthik in administration, commands, snippets, ubuntu. trackback The Bash shell has this sweet feature where you can use the TAB key to auto-complete certain things. For example, when I am in my home directory, the following command: $cd Do[TAB-key] will automatically yield: $cd Documents If you are an absolute novice, like I was, not so lon
How to Create a Screencast in Ubuntu June 8, 2006 Posted by Carthik in applications, guides, ubuntu. trackback …In which we (finally!) figure out how to create screencasts in Ubuntu using a patched ffmpeg… This is something I have wanted to do for a long time now. Screencasting can be very useful for explaining new concepts, demonstrating beta products, and heck, maybe even for filing better bug r
Sync Evolution Calendar with Google Calendar December 18, 2006 Posted by Carthik in applications, calendar, evolution, google, guides, office. trackback Not so much a detailed guide as a couple of links to help me out in the future: How to sync your google calendar with Evolution The access is “read-only” which means you cannot add events in Evolution and have them show up in your google calendar,
Galternatives – GUI for Alternatives Configuration February 12, 2006 Posted by Carthik in applications, Readers' Tips, ubuntu. trackback Galternatives is a tool to enable users to use the GUI to update the /etc/alternatives files, which decide the default commands/apps for various tasks. John Pywtorak sent in this tip via email (thanks John). The /etc/alternatives defines default applications for
Move /home to it’s own partition January 29, 2006 Posted by Carthik in administration, guides, ubuntu. trackback Having the “/home” directory tree on it’s own partition has several advantages, the biggest perhaps being that you can reinstall the OS (or even a different distro of Linux) without losing all your data. You can do this by keeping the /home partition unchanged and reinstalling the OS wh
Booting in to the command prompt January 22, 2006 Posted by Carthik in commands, snippets, ubuntu. trackback Recently, I switched to using multiple monitors at work. At home, however, I have only the laptop screen. I did not want the GUI login (GDM/KDM) to come up on boot. I wanted to be able to change the xorg.conf file before starting X, depending on whether I was at home or at work. I found a r
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