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Ubuntu automatically makes your display dim when you are idle for 30 seconds. Yes this saves battery life but for me 30 seconds is really annoying. And the good thing is this default value can be easily changed from gconf-editor . Press ALT+F2 Enter gconf-editor In gconf-editor browse to apps > gnome-power-manager > backlight > idle_dim_time Hit enter Change the integer value in seconds. That's it.

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Sauerbraten, its single/multi player, its fps and its free. Install it by sudo aptitude install sauerbraten http://www.sauerbraten.org/

Are you getting /dev/null: Permission denied error in terminal ? Chances are you accidentally deleted /dev/null or something happened that you are unaware of. But no worries you can make /dev/null again by following the mentioned steps and get rid of the problem. First go to terminal sudo rm /dev/null sudo mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3 And this should solve the problem.

Never use relative path while you use rm command. Always use absolute path. There are many cases while people do sudo rm -rf ./ and accidentally run the command again from history after changing their working directory. Absolute path ends as you delete the folder while relative path exists on basis of where your working directory is.

So you have a machine without Internet or the Internet is very slow and you want to update or install Ubuntu and packages. There is a simple way to install packages and softwares in machine that doesn't have Internet with it. First go to the machine that doesn't have Internet, i.e. the machine you want to install packages. Open Synaptic Package Manager from System - Administration Menu. Select the packages you want to install. Go to File and select Generate Package Download Script Save the file and bring it to the computer that has Internet. Run that file. It will download all the packages and its dependencies. Put them in a removable drive. Bring the drive back to the old machine. Open Synaptic Package Manger again. From File menu choose Add Downloaded Packages . You're done. That's 10 easy steps to install software and add packages to Ubuntu box which doesn't have Internet. To update your system follow the same above procedures bu...

Today I upgrade few machines to Jaunty Jackalope 9.04. However in machines with Intel's graphic driver I faced two kind of problem with compiz. Problem 1: After upgrading to Jaunty, compiz couldn't be enabled. The error was saying that the driver was backlisted. To solve this create a file ~/.config/compiz/compiz-manager and put SKIP_CHECKS=yes Now enable compiz and it should work. Problem 2: After upgrading to Jaunty, compiz is very slow. You'll easily notice the performance degradation. To solve this you can revert to intrepid driver by following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4 But what I did was used "UXA" instead of "EXA". UXA is new and far better but this has some bug, which prevented it from being default in jaunty. To do this open your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" under Section "Device"

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I hope you know what captcha is and what it does. But do you know its actually a acronym and it stands for "C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part". Well, I didn't knew it.

Movement Commands: h move one character left j move one line down k move one line up l move one character right H move to Home (start of first line displayed M move to start of Middle line displayed L move to start of Last line displayed O or ^ move to start of current line $ move to end of current line tc move forwards to just before character c Tc move backwards to just after character c fc move forwards on to character c Fc move backwards on to character c ; repeat last t, T, f, or F command w move forwards to the start of the next word e move forwards to the end of the next word b move backwards a word % move to matching bracket: () [] {} Movement Searching: / Search forwards for regular expression ? Search backwards for regular expression n repeat last search in the same direction N repeat last search in the reverse direction Insert Mode i Insert before the current character a Insert after the current character o Open a new line after the current line O Open a new line before the ...

Adobe stand alone flash player for Linux is available. Most of us only need flash plugin for browser to view swf. But sometimes we or most of the times developer wishes for the availability of stand alone flash player for Linux. Stand alone flash player means that you don't need anything to run swf other than the player itself. Yes, you don't need browser or any media player. Get it from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html or download the version 10 directly from http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flash_player_10_linux_dev.tar.gz Not only that you can create self running binaries from the stand alone player.

I was going through an article and found one interesting piece of information presented below. When Ubuntu was created back in 2004, Mark Shuttleworth recorded the very first bug in the online database. However, it wasn’t about software. Instead, it was a revolutionary call to arms. It read as follows: “Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix”. You can read it yourself here, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1