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Sorting Text Files

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:

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Playing DVDs in Ubuntu

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 […]

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Transfer files Effortlessly between Ubuntu Systems using Kepas

Kepas is a KDE4 file transfer tool. It discovers your local LAN for buddies (KDNSSD) and lets you transfer files or Klipper(KDE Clipboard) entries from a tray icon or using drag and drop with the Kepas plasmoid. Kepas has only one requirement, that it must be installed in all the systems that are expected to […]

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Changing The Frequency Of StartUp Disk Checks On Linux

Image via Wikipedia Linux systems commonly run on ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems. These file-systems have a built-in feature to tell the operating system to do a disk check while booting up if the number of times the disk has been mounted exceeds a certain number. Most commonly the count is set to 30. This is an […]

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Firefox: Spell Check Single Line Fields

Image via Wikipedia Firefox by default spell checks text fields, it has the built in ability to spell check single line fields(search bars ect) but that is disabled by default. To activate the ability of firefox to spell check single line fields, do the following: Bring up your about:config page. You can do this by […]