Tutorials

This tutorial is about changing the UID of a user with an encrypted, by ecryptfs, home directory in Ubuntu. You first need to logout the user you want to modify and kill all processes he runs.

This tutorial will enable automatic download and installation of security updates for Ubuntu. First we need to install unattended-upgrades: sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades Then we need to enable it: sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades More information can be found here.

Purpose This tutorial aims to help you setup a software RAID-1 (mirror) under ubuntu 13.04 Lets assume the following mapping /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /home /dev/sda3 swap /dev/sda4 /spare We also assume that you have a second (empty) hard disk drive larger or equal to sda .

So you want to learn how to use Emacs… First of all install Emacs (I suggest versions >=24). Then start using it. It is going to be hard in the beginning, but day by day you will get used to it and learn new things.

This tutorial aims to help you setup notmuch for multiple IMAP accounts and use emacs as a frontend. ( At the time writing this tutorial emacs version was 24.3 and notmuch version was 0.

This is a tutorial (more like a code dumb) on how to enable the pdf viewer plugin from google chrome in chromium. wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb ar vx google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb rm google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb control.tar.gz debian-binary tar --lzma -xvf data.

A few weeks ago my precious Acer Aspire 2920z started misbehaving. The symptoms: Power and battery leds flashing as soon as I plug it in. Automatic power on as soon as I plug it in.

If you are unable to launch Firefox from URL links in a Thunderbird mail message, or if you want to change the browser that is launched, add the following lines to the user.

Create the repo directory (the ‘.’ prefix is to make it hidden) mkdir .myrepo.git Go inside the directory cd .myrepo.git Initialize the git repo git init --bare Our repo is now ready

As a different user execute usermod -u username find / -user ; -exec chown -h ; {} \; example: usermod -u 2179 user1 find / -user 1000 -exec chown -h 2179 {} \;