I ran into an issue where I replaced a network card in a computer and the Ubuntu installation would not  display the new network card when running the command ‘ifconfig’.  Running ifconfig would only display the loopback interface ‘lo’.  I found that the network card had been recognized by Ubuntu but that my interface configuration
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Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Do you want to try Ubuntu without removing Windows or partitioning a dual boot
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Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. This is a nice tool for monitoring your system usage.  You can customize it to fit your current theme and display just about any information you want to view.  This application really helps to keep a minimalistic desktop.  In
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I recently ran into a problem mounting a remote share to my newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 installation.  I had never had a problem before so I knew my mount script was correct.  I found an easy fix to allow a regular user to mount a remote share. I had already prepared a folder to mount
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I wrote my first Linux application.  It is a application which will count down from a preset number of seconds.  I have tested it on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 Beta 2.  Other than that, I have no guaranty.  It is a pretty basic application. You enter the amount of seconds to countdown, select Set, then
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This is a short video tutorial on how to configure an iTunes/DAAP server on your FreeNAS server.  This tutorial assumes that you have following the “Installing FreeNAS” tutorial that is also available in the tutorials section of this site.  This tutorial slightly touches on creating simple playlists on the server to make them available to all users.
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