Articles Tagged “ubuntu tips”

  • ufw enabled

    Quickly Setup Firewall In Linux Mint/Ubuntu Using Gufw

    by admin on Apr 08, 2013 | No Comments">No Comments

    UFW is a simple and effective firewall available in Linux Mint / Ubuntu. One of the earlier posts described how to configure ufw directly through the Linux terminal. Now, the same can be done easily through a front end application – gufw. This is basically a simple and easy to use ufw settings tool that [...]

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  • Using htop to list CPU cores

    Two Ways To Find Out Number Of CPU Cores In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Mar 22, 2013 | No Comments">No Comments

    Here are a couple of ways to find out the number of CPU cores when using Linux Mint / Ubuntu : The graphical way : 1. Go to System > Administration > System Information. 2. Drill down to “Devices” and select “Processor”. The right pane shows the number of CPU cores for the given system. [...]

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  • Shared Windows folders mounted on Linux desktop

    How To Connect To Windows Shared Folders From Linux Mint/Ubuntu Desktop

    by admin on Feb 01, 2013 | No Comments">No Comments

    One of the earlier posts described how to connect to a Windows share directly from the Linux Mint / Ubuntu Terminal. To do this from the Linux Mint / Ubuntu desktop without using Terminal : 1. Press Alt + F2 and enter the IP address or the Windows system where the shared folders are hosted [...]

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  • Mouse and touchpad preferences in Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    Quickly Locate Mouse Pointer In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

    by admin on Jan 17, 2013 | No Comments">No Comments

    An earlier post described how to configure the mouse pointer settings in Windows so that whenever Ctrl key is pressed, the pointer location can be easily identified. Here is how to do the same in Linux Mint / Ubuntu : 1. Go to Menu and select Preferences > Mouse and Touchpad. 2. Enable the tick [...]

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  • Installing And Using ZFS In Linux Mint / Ubuntu – Part 7

    Installing And Using ZFS In Linux Mint / Ubuntu – Part 7

    by admin on Nov 27, 2012 | No Comments">No Comments

    Continuing from part 6, we’ll conclude the series with a recipe for implementing an iSCSI based storage with ZFS in Linux Mint (This tutorial assumes that you don’t have ZFS installed on your system, if you already do, skip to step 4): 1. Issue the following command at the terminal to add ubuntu-zfs repository to [...]

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