Image via Wikipedia Its important to calibrate your monitor espcially if you are a photographer and want to see the images exactly the way they will be printed. One of the simplest methods of calibrating your monitor is to use Screen Check Points to remember: Start with Maximum Contrast and adjust your screen brightness to […]
Grub is the default boot loader for Ubuntu and it comes with a huge set of options that you might be inclined to tweek when ever you choose to debug a problem during bootup. The simple quickfire way to make Grub do what you want is to edit it just before the boot process occurs […]
Ubuntu has a neat application to split large files into smaller chunks(for emails or to burn into disks). The application splits files into the format <filename>.<extension>.<part>. The same application can be used to rejoin the files to recreate the original larger file. Spliting: To be able to split file you need the application “lxsplit”. It […]
The sort command is an handy tool to sort text files in linux. Its very simple and easy to use. Lets say we want to sort the following file with the file name sorttest:
Image via Wikipedia Ubuntu by default does not play encrypted DVDs. This is because most commercial DVDs are encrypted with CSS (Content Scrambling System), which restricts the software that can play a DVD. To enable you must install the libdvdcss2 package to allow Ubuntu to play DVDs. For that you need to run the following […]