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Roll Your Own Lightning at Sunset Desktop. @CheesyJedi: Heh, I was afraid that one might gain some popularity. Here's the wallpaper. The black borders are actually still included in the "Enigma" package; they're just hidden. All you have to do is increase the Alpha Blending value of the elements Bottom and Bottom Line to 192, and of Side and Side Line, to 163. @splttingatms: Most of that sheet is specific to my personal desktop, but you're welcome to take what you want. Here it is. @bver100: Just base yours on the 1024x768 config. @nitzua: I think it's safe to say that the kind of "customization" you're talking about is a step beyond mine. I've started to look through those [Customize.org] shots. One other note: I did try Litestep a couple of years ago, and that experience is actually where these impressions were born. Lest this all sounds like defensiveness or criticism, however, let me say that I appreciate your guidance and look forward to getting my feet wet. :)

Customize Your Own Killer "Enigma" Desktop. How to Create A Minimal And Beautiful Desktop With Conky. Conky is a simple, lightweight system monitor application that can display information on your desktop and allows you to monitor several processes simultaneously.

How to Create A Minimal And Beautiful Desktop With Conky

For those who like to keep a minimal desktop, but still want to have quick access to various information such as emails, weather, memory usage etc, then Conky is just the application for you. While the installation of Conky is easy, configuring it can be a rather troublesome task. Follow this tutorial closely and I am sure you’ll master the trick in no time. Install Conky Click here to install Conky on your Ubuntu machine. Sudo apt-get install conky Once the installation is completed, type in the terminal: Get to know Ubuntu's Logical Volume Manager. This article is excerpted from the newly published book The Offical Ubuntu Book, Third Edition published by Prentice Hall Professional, June 2008, Copyright 2008 Canonical, Ltd.

Get to know Ubuntu's Logical Volume Manager

RAID helps to some degree. It'll do wonders for your worries about performance and fault tolerance, but it operates at too low a level to help with the partition size or fluidity concerns. What we'd really want is a way to push the partition concept up one level of abstraction, so it doesn't operate directly on the underlying physical media. Then we could have partitions that are trivially resizable or that can span multiple drives, we could easily take some space from one partition and tack it on another, and we could juggle partitions around on physical drives on a live server. Sounds cool, right? Very cool, and very doable via logical volume management (LVM), a system that shifts the fundamental unit of storage from physical drives to virtual or logical ones.

20 Things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux. How to enable USB-Serial Port adapter (RS-232) in Ubuntu Linux : mypapit gnu/linux blog. Though some might argue that Serial port are things in the past, it is still the most popular port for those who are into electronic DIY.

How to enable USB-Serial Port adapter (RS-232) in Ubuntu Linux : mypapit gnu/linux blog

Building electronic device with serial port interface is cheaper than buiding one that uses USB. That is the reason why people still sell USB-Serial adapter to those electronic DIY enthusiast. Here’s how to enable USB-Serial port adapter in Ubuntu Linux (with credit to Freeman from RepRap forum) First plug in the USB-Serial Port adaptor to one of your USB port.

Wait for a couple of second, then run “dmesg”. Usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_and address 2 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice After that, unplug the device and type “lsusb”. Plug in the USB-Serial Port converter back, and run “lsusb” again, and you shall see an additional line, like this. Installing using an RPM file. Linux How-To Articles, Tips, and Guides. Top 7 Ubuntu GUI tips (yay, no console editing) Mount samba shares with utf8 encoding using cifs. Powerful graphical tools for Ubuntu Linux. If you want to know how much disk space you have on a Windows machine, what do you do?

Powerful graphical tools for Ubuntu Linux

There's a number of different ways of getting that information, but the way that I usually use is to go to Windows Explorer and right click on the drive letter and select Properties. This opens up a window which looks at the drive and tells me how many folders and items there are, how big it is and how much space is left. In Linux, how can I see how I get the same information? You can use the Command Line Interface (CLI) and type in "df -lh" and see something like the following: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 15G 6.5G 7.7G 46% / varrun 442M 136K 442M 1% /var/run varlock 442M 0 442M 0% /var/lock udev 442M 84K 442M 1% /dev devshm 442M 288K 442M 1% /dev/shm lrm 442M 39M 404M 9% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile /dev/hda6 15G 9.4G 4.9G 66% /home gvfs-fuse-daemon 15G 6.5G 7.7G 46% /home/hamish/.gvfs ...but that won't actually mean very much to many people (including me!).