The popular Linux desktop Gnome can run more efficiently with the help of Gnome-do, a configurable app launcher. Juliet Kemp provides the details.
This week, I've been experimenting...
The current Xfce umbrella package in both Debian stable and Ubuntu 9.10 is xfce4 (version 4.4 in Debian, and 4.6 in Ubuntu). After you've installed it, log...
Modern mobile phones and PDAs have increasingly sophisticated data/internet connectivity. This is particularly great for browsing the web on the train, but it's also good for...
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is basically a way of
organizing information and providing access to it. It's commonly used
for user, service and machine information,...
The Linux command-line can appear pretty complicated and occasionally even
a little alarming. But it also offers a whole stack of helpful documentation
which you can...
Using PuTTY (the best
Windows SSH client going) and Xming (a free X Window
server for Windows) enables you to log in from a Windows box to your Unix...
It's quite common to find yourself replacing machines that are still
functional but just below the specs you now need — in which case it's
preferable to rehome them,...