The maximize button (top left – 3rd button to the right on the window) hides the top bar and dock automatically in OsX. If you want to make a window cover the whole screen without covering the dock and top bar, use the following key combinations: Option + (click on green button on top left) […]
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If your system regularly does ubuntu check disk or scan disks on boot up and if it often finds errors during the check, its highly possible that you have bad sectors on your hard disk. In such cases its highly recommended to do a disk check to detect if you have bad sectors on the […]
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Determine Mounted Filesystem Types on Linux
In linux its very easy to lose track of filesytem types if you have been using it for a while. With the advent of ext4(and NTFS) systems its hard to guess which filesystem type is running on each partition. One of the easiest ways to determine the filesystem type of a mounted filesystem is to […]
htop is a simple and wonderful tool to view the current memory usage on a Linux box. The tool is upgraded version of the top command, providing users some interactive menus and even mouse based control of sorting and menu access. To install htop on your ubuntu system, execute the following command in a console: […]
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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 […]