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 25th, 2017% Whew… saved by the skin of teeth.
The grub2 bootloader of my computer got corrupt. I was not able to boot into the computer and all was lost. For security reasons, I set up LVM with full disk encryption. Thereafter, each user’s home folder was further encrypted with ecryptfs (the default you get when you . . . → Read More: Recover encrypted ecryptfs home folder from encrypted dm-crypt luks disk volume
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 25th, 2017% After unlocking the Motorola G 2014 (Moto G2) bootloader, the phone startup screen is no more the pretty graphic, but a drab screen that displays a warning about the bootloader being unlocked. To make the phone startup screen look good, it can be overwritten using the method below. Note that you are responsible for whatever . . . → Read More: Flash custom logo on Motorola G (2014) Moto G2 after install of lineageos 14.1
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 25th, 2017% Use Clipgrap from https://clipgrab.org/ to download videos for offline viewing from sites like youtube.com.
It supports a heap of other sites too. The list is at https://clipgrab.org/faqs/supported-sites
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 6th, 2017% Open a Linux terminal and enter commands in blue. $ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade <enter>
Install gdebi: $ sudo apt-get install gdebi <enter>
Download the latest version of CrossOver from https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-linux/download/
Use gdebi to install CrossOver: $ sudo gdebi ~/Downloads/crossover_15.1.0-1.deb <enter> where crossover_15.1.0-1.deb is the latest file downloaded from the above URL.
. . . → Read More: Install Crossover Office on Ubuntu Linux
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on July 6th, 2017% I installed LineageOS 14.1 on an old Motorola G 2nd Generation (2014) android phone, also known as titan. All went well and it worked like a charm.
I wanted to encrypt the internal storage and accordingly, did so from the Settings -> Security option on the phone. It worked well and said the phone was . . . → Read More: How to restore TWRP recovery after encrypting internal storage on LineageOS 14.1 on Motorola G 2014 (titan)
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 June 12th, 2017% If you want to find out to which package a particular file belong, you can use apt-file. Open a terminal window and enter the following command: $ apt-file search <filename> <enter>
Where <filename> is the name of the file to lookup.
If you do not have apt-file installed, you can install it on your computer . . . → Read More: Find package in which a missing file is packed ubuntu
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on June 12th, 2017% Error installing or upgrading flashplugin-installer Can’t drop privileges for downloading as file ‘/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data -downloads/partial’
Start up synaptic and install flashplugin-installer. Error will not appear. There is a difference in apt-get install flashplugin-installer and synaptic, that apt-get does not run with full privileges, whereas for synaptic to install packages you are asked to enter your password . . . → Read More: Error installing or upgrading flashplugin-installer
By Geetu R. Vaswani, on January 31st, 2017% It took a while to find out the big difference between Wine and Crossover Office. I use a Mind Mapping software SimpleMind Pro on an Android device to create mind maps to learn new subjects rapidly. SimpleMind Pro saves files direct to Dropbox or Google Drive and you can open these files on any Windows . . . → Read More: Crossover Office and SimpleMind Desktop for Windows on Linux
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