Red Hat Takes Its Hat Off to Dennis Ritchie Share It is with sad hearts that the Red Hat community mourns the passing of computing pioneer Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie. Dennis Ritchie was the principal designer of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating...

How To Download YouTube Videos In Ubuntu 11.10 Share YouTube is the most popular video sharing site – or I can say it has videos about everything. When you’re watching videos on YouTube (Suppose You’re using Ubuntu 11.10) and some of them are such videos that you watch often –...

Linux Ubuntu : How To Merge Or Split mp3 Files Share Linux Ubuntu : HOW TO merge or split mp3 files To merge two or more mp3 you will need to get the program called mp3wrap. To split two files you can use program called mp3splt. You can install them by typing: sudo apt-get install...

How to change Login Screen background in Ubuntu 11.10 LightDM Share Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has released its second alpha. In Ubuntu Oneiric, it starts using LightDM as default to instead Gnome Display Manager(GDM). If you have upgraded to or new installed Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, you might want to...

Microphone Problem With HP 8530w After Upgrading To Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Share Microphone problem My upgrade to Linux Ubuntu 10.04 went very well (previously 9.04), except for my microphone (I have an HP 8530 w elitebook). Sound plays perfectly, and I can hear myself typing and speaking (i.e. the internal...

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) New Applications and Defaults Share This is list of New Applications and Defaults on ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Thunderbird is included as default email client including menu and launcher integration. Déjà Dup is included as the default backup tool, making it...

Since updating to Firefox 6, Add-Ons “Loading” ? Share I have the Firefox PPA set. It updated today to Firefox 6. Ever since I cannot access my Add-ons. It just says Loading, and never stops. Anybody know how I can fix this? Answers: Simply don’t use the ppa, then force the previous...

Torvalds Dumps GNOME for Xfce Share Linux users seem to be interested in what our de facto leader uses on his desktop. In 2005 KDE users reveled when Linus said, “just … use KDE.” Later on in 2009 GNOME users returned the nose rubbing when he said,...

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Released Share As Ubuntu 11.10 is still in active development you are not advised to install this alpha on your Mom’s laptop, your Brother’s nettop or even your own desktop. What’s new since Alpha 2? The latest experimental snapshots of Compiz...

Failed To Load Session “Ubuntu” Share I just upgraded to the Natty beta and I’m getting this error message every time I try to log in. Failed to load session “ubuntu” I have tried using every session available: Ubuntu, Classic Ubuntu, Unity-2d, and Gnome...