Articles tagged with Ubuntu

Linux: How to Check Version of a Package Installed in Ubuntu

Sometimes you will have a need to check which exact version of currently installed package you have. In various distributions of Linux you can achieve this in the same way. Ubuntu…

March 01, 2014

How to Install Restricted Extras in Ubuntu

Due to Ubuntu’s policy about non-free formats, by default this OS comes with no support to media like MP3 (which can be required to deal with FFmpeg) and DVD, Flash Player or Java…

February 27, 2014

Linux: How to Synchronize Time in Ubuntu or Debian

You can easily synchronize time of your Linux servers or desktop machines by using ntpdate command.

July 17, 2013

How to Backup and Restore Crontab

If you deal with crontab on a daily basis, it may be worth to familiarise yourself with a backup / restore strategy in case something goes wrong.

September 12, 2012

One Thunderbird Profile for Both Windows and Linux

If you have more than one Operating System installed on your machine, it is doable to use just a single instance of Thunderbird's Profile on both of them. With this, when switching…

June 28, 2012

PHP: Premature Session Termination

When it comes to coding in PHP, sooner or later sessions will come into play. If your application is based on Ubuntu Server, this may lead to a situation where the default session…

May 21, 2012

Linux: How to Automount NTFS Partition in Ubuntu

How to get all of our NTFS partitions being automatically mounted each time Ubuntu boots up? By default you have to click on a selected partition in file manager (GUI) to force sys…

August 20, 2011