By Geetu R. Vaswani, on August 12th, 2017% VirtualBox package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS does not successfully install Windows 10 Insider Preview. To install, you need to install VirtualBox from the Oracle website at this link: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
As instructed on that site:
Open a terminal window and add the following line to the /etc/apt/sources.list file: $ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list <enter> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial . . . → Read More: Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to run Windows 10 Insider Preview
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 6th, 2017% To find out the details of every hardware component in a Linux computer, open a terminal window and enter:
$ sudo lshw <enter>
Display all hardware information in Linux using lshw in a shorter report $ sudo lshw –short <enter>
The report generated is very detailed and precise. It can be used to help decisions . . . → Read More: Display all hardware information in Linux using lshw
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 6th, 2017% Laptops come with 1 Terabyte of disk space. Lots of space for Microsoft Windows 7 to use to generate and store CBS log files in C:\Windows\Logs\CBS folder. Searching on Google, revealed that this folder can get really large and leads to most space consumption on computers with little hard disk space.
Unfortunately, some of us . . . → Read More: Delete CBS log files to make disk space on Windows 7 computer
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on November 7th, 2016% After updating the packages on the laptop on November 6, 2016, the laptop was not displaying the login screen to continue further work.
On the other hand, pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 took me to a terminal prompt from where I could at least login through the command line interface. So, all is not lost.
Being able to . . . → Read More: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS displays blank screen on boot after latest update
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on October 2nd, 2016% After sooo many years, discovered that students in India were asked to do projects in Turbo C 2.01 in DOS. Amazing, but true!
That being the case, you can download Turbo C 2.01 for MS DOS from http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20841 for free. It is antique software and embarcadero acquired it way back. They offer it as a . . . → Read More: How to install and run Turbo C 2.01 for DOS in DOSBOX in linux
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on September 18th, 2016% Sometimes, we find that a pen drive simply cannot be formatted using the Disk Utility or gparted in Linux. In such a situation, open a terminal on your Linux computer, and enter the command as below to format the pen drive.
$ sudo mkfs.vfat -n ‘Label’ -I /dev/sda <enter> where ‘Label’ in the quotes can . . . → Read More: How to format pen drive to VFAT using mkfs when disk utility or gparted do not recognize it
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on August 15th, 2016% Simple, just use alcohol (brandy) to remove sticky dirt, dust on the surface of a DVD or a CD. It works wonders and removes it in one go. Dip a piece of cotton in brandy and wipe the disc surface inward to outward and not in a circular motion.
Managed to salvage a 15 years . . . → Read More: How to clean DVD surface that has sticky substance or layer of fungus on it
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 6th, 2016% Noticed that each time I added or downloaded a file, it resulted in excessive use of the CPU. This happens on XFCE desktop in Linux. Looking up the process list, found that tumblerd was utilizing up to 86% of the CPU and leading all other applications and processes to be very slow. Tumbler is used . . . → Read More: How to fix excessive CPU usage by process tumblerd on XFCE desktop in Linux
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 4th, 2016% If you want to play Movie DVDs on Linux, then the earlier method of will not work anymore on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. To start playing movie DVDs, do the following.
$ sudo apt-get install libdvd-pkg <enter>
Once you are done installing above package, the DVDs can be played flawlessly using VLC.
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 4th, 2016% On a Linux computer, you can change the host name anytime you like following the method given below after opening a terminal window.
$ sudo vi /etc/hosts <enter>
127.0.0.1 mycomputer.mydomain.com <enter> :wq
$ sudo vi /etc/hostname <enter> Insert mycomputer.mydomain.com <enter> :wq
$ sudo hostname -F /etc/hostname <enter>
Now check if hostname has changed $ . . . → Read More: How to change the host name of Linux computer
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