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This blog entry show you how to use pivot or portre mode on your LCD monitor under Linux. I know the way that NVidia card owners can rotate their screen. You have to use official NVidia driver for this method.

You can use Google's browser on Linux. The early access release of Chrome .deb package is available from site of Chromium.

Antialased fonts will be after this 3 easy step in Emacs (Ubuntu 8.10).

The well known way is svn export. Some times this command is not applicable. You can use this simple shell command in this case (Linux/*nix only).

When I upgraded my Ubuntu Linux from "Gutsy Gibbon" to "Hardy Heron" my gnome-terminal not shown some characters correctly anymore. I tried change the character encoding to UTF-8, but next time back again to ANSI_X3.4-1968. And I have found the solution.

Change your boot splash or menu appearance in ubuntu or kubuntu with startupmanager. Set password against kernel parameters for example: init=/bin/bash, what boot up your system to root prompt.

Installation:

sudo apt-get install startupmanager

After installation process has finished execute startupmanager:

sudo startupmanager

After it you can set any splash for boot, background image for GRUB, or you can set password protection for GRUB, or change resolution, color detph of boot process, etc...

How to convert jpg files to one PDF?

Requirements:
• Linux

  Ubuntu is my favorite. But you can use any other distribution.

• ImageMagick
  Type the follow line to Ubuntu commmand prompt for intall ImageMagick:
  sudo apt-get install imagemagick

My spam traffic has decreased to minimum after I've inserted following lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf file (Postfix main configuration file). These settings made my SMTP server to spam resist. This method use DNS queries, what mean very fast UDP communication and use less memory and CPU then any spamfilter. If your hardware is weak or an all-in-one server than use this really fast and effective method.

Before: I received 200-300 spam a day.
Now: I receive only 1-2 unsolicited email a day.

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) released on the 18th of October 2007. I've upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10.

How to upgrade your Ubuntu Linux?

Before you start

• You can only directly upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon") from Ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn") (see UpgradeNotes).
• Be sure that you have all updates applied to Ubuntu 7.04 before you upgrade (see below).
• Before upgrading it is recommended that you read the release notes for Ubuntu 7.10, which document caveats and workarounds for known issues in this version.

Network upgrade for Ubuntu desktops (Gnome)

You can easily upgrade over the network with the following procedure on Gnome: