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My debian days…

My debian days…

I had dedicated few days of past few weeks for Debian in search of stable, secure and reliable solutions.  With Debian, I ended up finding robust solutions for lots of questions which we had while setting up LAN resources. Debian net install CD which weighed...

Setting GRUB password

If you don’t want any one to access your system without permission, you should confirm that you don’t have recovery mode enabled in GRUB boot loader or it must be password protected. Otherwise any one can get into root console as and change the password to...
Empathy amusement

Empathy amusement

Today, I forced myself to revisit and reuse Empathy, a simple messaging client for Linux with rich set of widgets. Just because, pidgin has been eating up resources and it was found to be hanging or taking too long to pull in the friends list during which my IM...
Language support in Debian/Ubuntu

Language support in Debian/Ubuntu

If you want to view your Debian/Ubuntu desktop, you need to add the language support for your language via System -> Administration -> Language Support Menu option. Once you’re in-front of language support window, do select the language which you want for...
Ubuntu Init scripts management

Ubuntu Init scripts management

How do I manage my startup scripts? You can do it in Many ways, manually or by using scripts or sysvconfig command. sysvconfig interface in console looks like this : I don’t find chkconfig command in Ubuntu/Debian. How do I add custom scripts to start up? Do I...