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How to Administer Your Databases with Adminer

Adminer, formerly known as phpMinAdmin, is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. It is available for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL and...

How to Add Shortcut Keys in XFCE

Although XFCE is providing a great Graphical User Interface (GUI), we still love to reach our desired applications and perform actions instantly and quickly,...

Secure Your Online Privacy with I2P

I2P is an anonymity network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers...

Arch Linux Reinventing the Filesystem Structure?

Unix and Linux has changed, evolved and matured. But there's one thing that has not changed too...

ufw Firewall Usage on Ubuntu

There's an important piece of software sitting on your computer that you are probably completely unaware that it's even there. Or you simply take...

Steg: Hide Your Confidential Data Inside Images

Steg is a cross-platform portable software written in C++ which is used to hide your confidential data inside compressed or uncompressed images. It supports...

Setup Your Own Online Survey Using Limesurvey and LAMP Server

LimeSurvey, formerly known as PHPSurveyor, is an open-source survey application written in PHP that can be used to create powerful online question and answer...

Install your own Instant Messaging Server with Openfire

Openfire is a powerful instant messaging (IM) and chat server that implements the XMPP protocol written in Java. It is previously known as Wildfire...

Failed to Mount Windows NTFS: Operation Not Permitted

I got this issue when trying to mount a Windows disk in Linux. I have dual-boot Linux Mint 15 with Windows 8. The situation: pc-mint ~...

eXo Platform: An Enterprise Social Platform and Portal

eXo is an open source social-collaboration platform for enterprise written in Java, Groovey and JavaEE Web Container. It offers social intranet like Facebook and...

Performance on Linux. Just how far *can* we go?

As the title suggests, Linux and performance in the same sentence makes for an interesting topic of discussion. Everyone knows there is a multitude...

Upstart 1.9.1 Released

Just one week out from the release of Upstart 1.9, Ubuntu has pushed out 1.9.1. Upstart is an...

How to Fix Grub Boot Loader Errors with Boot-Repair Utility

Some times you can't boot into Ubuntu systems after installing dual boot Windows OS or other Linux distribution. In some cases you can't boot...

Minitube: A YouTube Desktop Application for Linux

Minitube is a YouTube Desktop client to play your YouTube videos in your desktop/laptop without having to create a YouTube account. You can watch...

How to Find Wasted Disk usage With Agedu on Linux

agedu is a Linux tool used to track down the wasted disk usage. This tool will help you to find out the right stuff...

How to Clear Memory Cache on Linux

By default, every Linux OS has an efficient memory management system used to clear the buffer cache periodically. You can manually free up the...

How to Remove White Dots from Ubuntu 13.04 Login Screen

On Ubuntu 13.04, in the login screen there are white dots arranged in a pattern which some people might always want to get rid...

Install Moodle Learning Managment System on CentOS 6

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a...