A multiboot USB drive with many Linux distribution it’ very useful for demo, installation or utility. There are several tools to create it, but, in this post, I want to explain how to create a multiboot USB drive using syslinux. For example we can create it with the following Linux distributions using syslinux on a …
Unity is the default desktop manager in Ubuntu since the 11.04 version (April of 2011) and this, for someone, is again today a problem. Personally I think Unity is easy to use and I like it but I understand that other people prefer have a classic menu with applications collected in categories. maybe for habit …
Sometimes could be useful open in terminal the folder/directory you’re using directly from Nautilus, one of the most used file manager in lots of Linux distributions. To do this is very easy, it’s enough add the nautilus-open-terminal extension to the file manager Nautilus with the following command:
Many people that have to manage data from different sources (DB2, MS Sql Server, MySql, Oracle, Excel, …) surely knows Pentaho Data Integration also known with the name Kettle. It’s a fantastic ETL (Extract, Transform, Load). But, because there is always a but, there is a little problem on Ubuntu 14.04 and Oracle Java: spoon, …
Sometimes, on your Ubuntu PC, could be useful working with commands in Terminal with a Windows shared folder, for example to syncronize backup with rsync. The problem is how to access to a Windows shared folder by the Terminal? Which is the path of Windows shared folder in Ubuntu 14.04? At first you have to …
In another post I wrote about how to encrypt a folder using Gnome EncFS Manager on Linux. In this article I want to tell how to encrypt an USB stick or an external hard disk, but first I want to explain why. The answer is quite easy, I need to encrypt an hard disk or …
Many Linux distributions have a bulk rename utility to rename many files at once. It’s simply named rename and is a Perl program. You can use it like a command (but it isn’t a command). The syntax of rename is very simple: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames] where
To install Ubuntu Linux is very easy for anyone, easier than to install Windows because you haven’t fight with the driver: it usually recognize all hardware you have. In this post I want describe how to install Ubuntu encrypted. Why I have to install Ubuntu encrypted? Is it necessary? It isn’t necessary to install Ubuntu …
To configure Postfix SMTP Server to relay emails through Gmail SMPT Server on Ubuntu Linux you need an account of Gmail and then you have to follow these simple instructions. Install Postfix by the following command
Send e-mails from command line on Linux is very useful for many reasons, ffor example to receive results or logs from your scheduled scripts like virus scan, check free space on the hard disk, backup, … or maybe for manage some kind of alert when happen an event. To do it you can use the …