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Establish shared folders between VirtualBox and host system
Virtualbox, as most other virtualisation technologies, provides a service to establish shared folders between the host system and the virtualbox guest OS. For that, you need to install the Virtualbox...
View ArticleUninstall VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu and Windows 7
Ubuntu: To uninstall VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu and similar operating systems, mount the virtual disk again that you used to install them – to do that, click on the Devices menu on the...
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Add places icons to the desktop in Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon)
After installing Linux Mint 13 on your machine for the first time, you will only have few to no icons on the desktop by default. This makes accessing important files fast a chore. However, you can...
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Read ext4 partitions from Windows 7
Linux partitions are usually not visible under Windows operating systems. While it’s not recommended to write on a Linux partition from Windows, you can read files from there without too much of a...
View ArticleCopy files on Linux shell that have been modified or added within the last X...
Here is a short script that helped me to copy files that have ben modified within the last 60 minutes to a new directory. The script uses a combination of the find and cp commands, it has to be run...
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Rotating screen in Ubuntu and Linux Mint
Just as in Windows you have the option to rotate your screen into any direction in Linux, too. While in Windows you only need to press some keys, a key combination is not configured in Linux by...
View ArticleActivate the title bar in Mozilla Thunderbird 17 again
Starting with the Mozilla Thunderbird 17, the classic title bar has been hidden in Thunderbird. To get the classic title bar back, follow these steps: Start Mozilla Thunderbird. Open the config editor...
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Install Minecraft on Ubuntu 12.10 and Mint 14
Minecraft provides you with really good support on Linux. To be able to play, you need to download the .jar file from the official website first (you need that from the Minecraft for Linux / Other...
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Switch between multiple desktops on Windows with Sysinternals
Surely you have witnessed this feature on a Linux system before: with a simple key combination the user is able to switch between multiple instances of the same desktop to reduce the clutter that you...
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Install Steam on Ubuntu and Linux Mint
With Steam support for Linux, there will most likely be a whole lot more games coming out for Ubuntu and its consorts. While the database of games with Linux support still grows, many titles are...
View ArticleIncorrent Time on Windows/Linux Dual Boot System
If you work on a dual boot system you might experience that when you log off from Windows, onto Linux, and to Windows again, the time that is shown in the bottom right corner might be an hour or more...
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Establish shared folders between VirtualBox and host system
Virtualbox, as most other virtualisation technologies, provides a service to establish shared folders between the host system and the virtualbox guest OS. For that, you need to install the Virtualbox...
View ArticleIncorrent Time on Windows/Linux Dual Boot System
If you work on a dual boot system you might experience that when you log off from Windows, onto Linux, and to Windows again, the time that is shown in the bottom right corner might be an hour or more...
View ArticleHow to Copy Files with SCP between Linux Servers
1.1 SCP Command Line-An Overview The SCP command line is commonly used to copy files over SSH, and between popular Operating systems like Linux, Mac and Windows in a secure fashion. SCP is used to...
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Linux: Add user to Group
Examples on how to add Linux users to groups with simple shell commands for CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. Add a new Linux User to a Group. A Linux user can have one primary group and one or more secondary...
View ArticleCreate shortcuts in Linux (symbolic links)
Windows users are used to be able to create shortcuts to have fast access to their files and folders. This is is especially useful when these are buried deep in their system. This feature isn't as...
View ArticleHow to Shutdown or Reboot Debian 10 (Buster)
Debian 10 has now fully switched to Systemd which means that the traditional commands to halt or reboot a system like 'shutdown -h now' or 'reboot' will not work anymore. First of all, run the command...
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How to enable verbose logging in pure-ftpd on Debian and Ubuntu
To turn on verbose logging (e.g. to debug FTP connection or authentication problems) in pure-ftpd FTP server on Debian and Ubuntu Linux. Enable debug log in pure-ftpd Execute the following command as...
View ArticleBackup and Restore MySQL Databases on the shell
One way to create a backup of a MySQL database on the shell is to use the mysqldump command. Mysqldump creates a dump of the database in form of sql commands, which can be easily restored using the...
View ArticleHow to convert filenames or text to lowercase on the Linux command line
There is no simple 'tolower' command on the bash, but you can convert uppercase characters to lowercase with a little shell script. The script uses the tr command internally for converting the chars....
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